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17. More BS of people asking a democrat to do the impossible

And being upset that they don't.

You can't appoint somebody to a seat that is already filled. Even if McConnell is being kept alive by machines, he is still alive and his seat if filled. There is not a mechanism to replace a congressman due to incapacitated other than a regular election. The seat opens on term, resignation, expulsion, or death. Nothing else.

And even if McConnell were replaced with a Democrat today it would change nothing about the calculus in the chamber. Republicans would still hold the majority with the exact number of votes they have available with his laying in a hospital bed. Republicans are already down a vote.

For them it would be better to have him die and tey to force a replacement picked by KY legislature. They have nothing to lose in that fight, as described, and a good chance to pick up a maga vote in his place.