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'Ominous': Speculation swirls over Mitch McConnell's new 'proof-of-life' pic
Proof-of-Life Politics in KentuckyA senator turned into a propMitch McConnell’s office has now issued another photo, another statement, and still no real public accounting for an 84-year-old senator absent since a June 14 hospitalization. He will miss Fancy Farm, the Kentucky ritual that opens the fall political season, while staff substitutes carefully managed imagery for the basic fact of whether he is functioning as a senator at all.The people with power are not the people in the photoThe institutional power here sits with McConnell’s office, Senate Republican leadership, and the party…
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