{"id":13979,"date":"2024-02-29T08:09:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=13979"},"modified":"2024-02-29T08:26:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T16:26:50","slug":"hmm-mitch-mcconnell-is-retiring-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2024\/02\/29\/hmm-mitch-mcconnell-is-retiring-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmm&#8230; Mitch McConnell is retiring. Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"mitch-mcconnell-1-23-24-getty-640x480.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mitch-mcconnell-1-23-24-getty-640x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" \/>It\u2019s about time.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2023\/09\/01\/mitch-its-time-for-you-to-head-to-the-pasture\/\">piece<\/a> a while ago suggesting the he be put out to pasture.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I\u2019m always amazed that our politicians can be obviously having health issues, mental issues, and \/ or be obviously corrupt and still hold their seats in office.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell literally froze up in public like a machine that had the power pulled. If one of our loved one\u2019s were to freeze up like that and start talking gibberish we\u2019d rush them to the hospital to be examined &amp; treated for a stroke. Then we\u2019d start looking at getting them into rehab while deciding about retirement and what the next steps were.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell was back a few days later, and since that day in September has frozen up the same way several more times.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t for the life of me, understand why he\u2019s putting it off until November. Unless it\u2019s that he doesn\u2019t trust the people likely to take over his Senate Majority Leadership. They\u2019re not my first choices either, but it\u2019s unlikely they\u2019re going to be booted out of office in the upcoming election. I haven\u2019t checked to see if they\u2019re even up for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>We know Biden is suffering with something. I\u2019m not a doctor but it sure looks like dementia. Although Karine Jean Pierre assures us the President takes a cognitive test every day in all the <em>massive amount<\/em> of work he does.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ahem. If one of these days that woman is struck by lightening from on high, and a booming voice from the clouds saying, \u201cShut IT!\u201d I won\u2019t be in the least surprised. Don\u2019t humans have a built in lie counter that causes them to spontaneously combust when they reach a certain limit?<\/p>\n<p>Could it be they do, and the problems we\u2019re seeing with Biden and McConnell are what happens when someone gets near the limit?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s about time. I wrote a piece a while ago suggesting the he be put out to pasture. Honestly, I\u2019m always amazed that our politicians can be obviously having health issues, mental issues, and \/ or be obviously corrupt and still hold their seats in office. McConnell literally froze up in public like a machine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2024\/02\/29\/hmm-mitch-mcconnell-is-retiring-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hmm&#8230; Mitch McConnell is retiring. Good!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-13979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13981,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979\/revisions\/13981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}