the Kentucky lawmaker hasn’t voted in nearly a month

Missing X votes per term should be grounds for impeachment or recall or something. Being unable to fulfill your obligations to your constituents and still occupying the position is disgusting. I don't really agree with his constituents, but we all deserve our constitutionally guaranteed representation. People deserve sick leave, but there needs to be a mechanism to stop this kind of exploitation of basically an unreplaceable position.

Rigor tortoise.

Totally a normal thing a person does when they're trying not to scream at everyone to leave them alone because they're trying to mourn they deceased parent because dirty soulless politicians want them to keep the death a secret for their political games.

The only question swirling in my mind is how long they'll Weekend at Bernie's him before admitting the truth.

There clearly needs to a rules for circumstances like this. The people do not have a functional representative at the moment and haven't for month. That isn't democracy and is not what the intent is. Y'all need to organize with each other and become actively political. I don't mean protests and marches, I mean help each other learn how the procedures of politics functions and start using them.

He's as spry as a dead 92-year-old man.

The best part is it's legally unclear how this will resolve, they'll likely be able to just stay silent and block any attempt for a special election and have a decent legal argument for it. One last fuck you from Mitch.

This ENTIRE situation is PROOF that Trump runs the MOST TRANSPARENT Administration EVER!

-Free Thinking Alpha Republicans!

I think there are way more wishes of "drop dead already" than "speedy recovery"...

He ded

She's probably also tired of seeing the celebrations of his impending death, if he isn't dead already.

Sorry girl. Your dad is a traitor piece of shit who may be in the top 10 list of people who have done the most harm to this country.

He's dead and we all know it. Instead of pretending that's not true, they should just wrap his deboned corpse around a robot dog and send him back to work, the GOP will probably give "him" a standing ovation for his dedication.

Using "hospitalization" a bit loose here, huh? Booked into one of those rooms with the refrigerated human-sized drawers.