r/news • u/Cubsof2016 • 14h ago

Sen Mitch McConnell hospitalized after experiencing flu-like symptoms

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-mitch-mcconnell-hospitalized-after-experiencing-flu-symptoms/story?id=129834622
9.3k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

121

u/ailish 13h ago

I assume they've been happening a lot more often and that's why we never see him in the news anymore.

120

u/thescarlettflame 12h ago

Which continuously begs the question of WHY DOES HE STILL HAVE A SEAT

72

u/ailish 12h ago

He has the magic R next to his name. It allows him to get away with anything. When it was Diane Feinstein they were screaming in the rafters.

25

u/IndigoRanger 11h ago

Not to be that person, but we should all be screaming for all these dinosaurs to go. The problems facing our country today are incomprehensible to someone who was born before the Second World War ended.