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McConnell’s hometown newspaper blasts him for mysterious absence
McConnell’s Absence Is Not the Story. The Power Vacuum Is.A Health Narrative Built to Hide a Power ProblemThe coverage wants to make this about a senior senator’s health, a few “proof of life” photos, and the usual bipartisan theater around “transparency.” That is the soft-focus version. The harder fact is that Mitch McConnell’s absence has exposed how much institutional leverage still sits in one aging Republican body and how little the Senate can function when that leverage goes missing.Who Actually Has PowerMcConnell is not just any senator in this account. He is a key GOP vote on…
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