Weekend at Mitch's

Where's Mitch?

Senator Mitch McConnell was hospitalized with undisclosed health issues on June 14, and the public has yet to receive any information on this. The 84-year-old senator is still a public servant, and there should be some accountability regarding his health. His constituents have a right to know about the Senator's condition.

Republicans are not about transparency when it comes to their health. Donald Trump has made multiple mysterious trips to Walter Reid, often with unbelievable and stupid explanations. It has not helped that some of the doctors have been drunkard, lying buffoons.

Recently, Republican Representative Tom Kean Jr. was missing for 142 days without explanation until he returned, when he informed the public that he was hospitalized for depression. During his absence, he missed over 140 roll-call votes. Despite that, he won his primary to be the GOP candidate in New Jersey's 7th congressional district.

McConnell’s physical condition has visibly declined in recent years. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is asking the former Senate Majority Leader to provide details to the public, writing in a letter to him, “Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the current state of your health and well-being, and ability to hold office.”

Republican Senate leaders, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Wyoming’s John Barrasso, on Tuesday made public statements saying they had talked to McConnell and he was alert and discussing current events.

CNN's Scott Jennings says he talked to McConnell, but despite working for a news outlet, he did not gather any useful details about McConnell's condition and, as usual, served only as a poodle for the Republican Party.

McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, had been in China on business since before his hospitalization and only returned to the United States yesterday. There's still no word on whether she saw him or not, or even if she's in Washington DC, where he has been hospitalized. That means his condition is not serious enough for her to immediately return home, or she doesn't care.

I think we can be mostly sure that McConnell is still alive, but less sure whether he is in a vegetative state or not.

Creative note: Weekend at Bernie's is a fairly common trope among political cartoonists, but I don't think I have ever used it before. So after three weeks of a missing senator, I decided, what the hell, let's go ahead and do it. If nothing else, it's probably justified.

But if using Weekend at Bernie's is simplistic, then drawing a vile senator going to hell is even more so. I have already seen two cartoons of Mitch McConnell being greeted in hell by Satan. I have a few guidelines regarding obituary cartoons, and one of them is that the cartoonist should wait until the subject is actually dead before drawing one.

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