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Link to tweet
@evanmcmurry
NEW: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recovering from a fractured shoulder after a fall at his home this morning, his communications director says. "He has been treated, released, and is working from home in Louisville." (link: http://abcn.ws/2KrrgVk) abcn.ws/2KrrgVk
Edited to add:
WashPost commenter:
Spokesman for McConnell denied that he'd collapsed under the weight of his hypocrisy. "Actually, he tripped over a giant bag of NRA cash that had been left lying around," said the staffer. "Normally we keep it well out of sight, but someone just screwed up."
Grasswire2
(13,569 posts)dlk
(11,561 posts)malaise
(268,980 posts)Now he can't reconvene the Senate to pass the bipartisan bill from the House re background checks.
Sounds 'bone spurish'
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)But, that analysis could be correct.
TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)are flashing through my brain.
malaise
(268,980 posts)Srkdqltr
(6,276 posts)TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)durablend
(7,460 posts)Wonder if he's received a get well soon call from Putin yet?
Well that was... convenient.
grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)"Too bad."
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I don't believe this for a second. Now, he can lay low over his vacation from the Senate floor. Maybe things will cool down, in the meantime.
He's so slimy, I wouldn't believe anything he had to say.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)Yonnie3
(17,434 posts)I wouldn't wish that pain on anyone, would I?
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)His shell may have protected him, suppose?
Yonnie3
(17,434 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)a fractured shoulder? I was in for two days with a broken proximal humerous. How was he "treated and released" for a fractured shoulder. If it's fractured, they can't put it in a cast, you can't move or do much of anything and it is extremely painful.
I'm calling BS on this. Like Melania's "kidney operation" and MF45's "bone spurs", this is just another pathetic excuse to cover the fact that he's going to stay home and cry because people are calling him mean names.
Fuck you, Mitch.
Yonnie3
(17,434 posts)I'm sure there are many different ways to break a shoulder. My arm was put in a sling and X-rayed periodically to be sure it didn't need surgery. I hurt like hell for 4 weeks. At 8 weeks I started physical therapy to get it working again. That hurt like hell for months and I never got full range back. 24 years later I can still easily tweak it.
Maybe the NRA/KGB twisted his arm too hard.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Maybe another senator can take over for him. Leningrad Lindsey is almost as bad.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Must be getting brittle.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,870 posts)tetedur
(820 posts)oasis
(49,382 posts)Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)He'll be unable to make any public appearances for a while and if he has to he can wear a sling.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Lochloosa
(16,064 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)Last night at 1 AM I learned about the Ohio killings and was in shock and then it turned into rage (3 mass murders in 1 week!). Bring the already written gun control bills to the Senate for a vote! He refuses to do this since he loves the NRA. $$$. He is giving our election to Putin for Russian $$$. He has sold our country for his personal gain. Yes, I wish he broke a lot more than his shoulder.
Volaris
(10,270 posts)About the importance of loyalty.
shanti
(21,675 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)I hope he's working at fracturing more stuff.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Uh huh. I'm not convinced he wouldn't fake an injury.
Stargazer09
(2,132 posts)Hes looking for an excuse to hide.
What a coward.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)But since Mitch's heart is in Moscow, it won't matter a whole lot.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)for the month he is home to face his constituents.
And might also prevent him from going back to Washington for the emergency vote Senator Sherrod Brown is requesting for gun background checks:
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/08/sen-sherrod-brown-calls-on-mitch-mcconnell-to-have-monday-vote-on-gun-background-check-legislation.html
So sorry for his pain. Uh huh. Shoulder pain can be a bitch, Mitch.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)helpisontheway
(5,007 posts)for an @sshole that is basically encouraging a foreign power to interfere with our election. No empathy for a man that has rigged the system so he can destroy our courts. No sympathy at all for a man that allows those babies to be held in cages. Plus it is probably a lie. He does not want to deal with public appearances with people shouting of Moscow Mitch.
liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Those 7-story falls onto anything don't go too well.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)He's not young. He did have polio as a child which tends to rear its ugly head later in life. Once the falls start, they don't usually stop.
I say this not to feel bad for him. I don't. But just as my thoughts. There will be no accompanying prayers.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,342 posts)Moscow Mitch fractured the Senate.
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)I loathe him to the tips of my toes. I REALLY hate him.
pwb
(11,261 posts)You would think he lived with the folks in the country. Am not sure but I believe most big cities are Democratic.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)IronLionZion
(45,434 posts)and Mitch is clearly too good for his rural Kentucky people
d_b
(7,463 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)#Icouldgivearat'sass
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)TeamPooka
(24,223 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)something he rarely does " is working"
IronLionZion
(45,434 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)of the medical facility. Is he doped up on pain meds (if this actually happened)? Should some else take the reins till he is in full command of his faculties? Whole lotta questions about this.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)WashPost commenter:
Spokesman for McConnell denied that he'd collapsed under the weight of his hypocrisy. "Actually, he tripped over a giant bag of NRA cash that had been left lying around," said the staffer. "Normally we keep it well out of sight, but someone just screwed up."