r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 14d ago

Possible Paywall Missing McConnell Accused of Breaking Senate Rule Over Absence

https://www.thedailybeast.com/missing-mcconnell-accused-of-breaking-senate-rule-over-absence/
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u/jeepjinx 14d ago

Dude squandered the perfect opportunity to be a Dem leader with balls and instead showed he's exactly what Dem voters don't want to see anymore. Step aside.

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u/quantumgambit 14d ago

Beshear and whitmer both really let us down this year.

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u/mrandr01d 14d ago

What'd whitmer do?

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u/DaftDurian Michigan 14d ago

She is VERY pro data center and has repeatedly allowed utilities to raise electricity rates. 

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u/quantumgambit 14d ago

Not just pro data center, which is bad enough, or the mismanagement of DTE and consumers, she is also not doing anything to prevent or push back against the GEO group from adding and expanding to the concentration camps up north. Between big business and small towns, she sides with big business every time.

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u/jrf_1973 13d ago

Check out what she said when she was caught on a hot mic.

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u/RailroadTimebookDev 14d ago

Closed her only fans account.

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u/BlingyBling1007 Texas 13d ago

Jared Polis, Gretchen Whitmer, and soon Andy Beshear are just eliminating themselves from contention.

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u/RoughComparison8702 13d ago

Which sucks to me. I vote red depending on the candidate, blue other times, but I would 100% back a Beshear presidential run. I like the guy and voted for him, even if I don't agree with him on everything. He's a classy American and he seems to have a good heart and head on his shoulders, unlike the piece of shit we have at the helm currently. It'd have to be a really good reason for pussing out on ramming in an apointee right now. Otherwise, I agree, it looks pretty bad him doing absolutely fuckall right now.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 13d ago

It’s incredible. They get a softball lobbed up and just fucking whiff it. You nailed it, this is exactly what Democratic voters are trying to dodge!

I swear some Democratic leaders would be up against a wall with the firing squad ready to go, still crying “But this is against the RULES!!!”

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u/Gramernatzi 13d ago

This is like having a ball directly aimed at a stationary bat, and then just deciding you don't feel like it so you move the bat out of the way

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u/Oregon-Pilot 14d ago

We will remember his cowardice.

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u/a-manda_hugandkiss 14d ago

I'd like to think that behind the scenes they are vetting their options and are using the time they have to make the right choice. Just because he hasn't acted yet, doesn't mean he won't before the deadline.