We Not Crying!

Can you add another one to the hot place?

I expect former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden to offer words to the family of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the former Republican leader in the Senate.

President Donald J. Trump might say something or may something offensive. Knowing him, it is likely a mix of sympathy and disrespect.

Well I will not shed a tear. I won't dance on his grave. But I will crack open a drink and sip one in joy knowing that one of the last segregationists of the 20th Century is eventually heading to the dirt.

We cannot confirm or deny the fact that McConnell has passed away. But the reports of him being found unconscious puts him in the "dire straits".

Even though he treated Obama and Biden like adversaries instead of partners, McConnell will best be known as the senator who got the Republican Party in check.

I mean he denied Obama his third Supreme Court pick only to rush through Trump's three picks during his first term.

It is disgraceful politics but the art of the game for McConnell.

McConnell was reportedly found "unconscious" in his Washington, D.C. home last month before being taken to the hospital, as his condition and timetable to return to the Senate remain a mystery.

Audio from an emergency dispatch from a call on June 14, the day McConnell was sent to the hospital, released Wednesday by reporter Desirée Townsend and later reported by PunchBowl News revealed that the longtime Senate Republican was "unconscious," and that the dispatcher requested an Advanced Life Support (ALS) response.

McConnell, 82, has been absent from the Senate ever since, and it is unclear when he will return. His office did not return a request for comment on his condition, why he was hospitalized and when he would return to the upper chamber.

The day of McConnell’s hospitalization, his office released that the lawmaker "was admitted to the hospital this morning" and was "receiving excellent care." David Popp, his spokesperson, later said that McConnell was "working closely with staff on Senate business and Kentucky matters as he continues his recovery."

Senate Republican leadership said they had spoken with McConnell after the incident, too.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) who replaced McConnell after his historic run as leader of the Senate GOP, said that he "is clearly dialed in to what’s going on."

"He’s following along with stuff we are doing this week up here," Thune said. "Very much so."

McConnell, who is retiring from the Senate at the end of this year, is in his second stint in the hospital of 2026 — he was hospitalized for eight days in February dealing with flu-like symptoms.

And over the last few years, he’s suffered medical episodes publicly and privately.

He fell and cracked his rib and got a concussion in 2023. He fell again in July of that year and shortly after had two different episodes where he froze up in front of cameras. In 2024, he fell at a Senate Republican lunch, and last year he tripped and fell in the Senate basement.