This is becoming a regular occurrence:

From WLKY: Sen. Mitch McConnell fell down some stairs while leaving the Senate Wednesday, according to CNN. The incident happened after he participated in the vote to confirm Scott Turner as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The office sent a statement after the former GOP leader, who suffered from childhood polio, stumbled on a small series of steps exiting the Senate.

Falling, freezing and flailing: That’s what our senator has been doing. Seems pretty obvious he can’t do another term in D.C., which even MAGA fanatics would agree with since they were so obsessed with Joe Biden’s age and “frailty.”

So maybe it’s time to take a look at his overall career to fully understand why we are in our current political environment. For that, I turn to Robert Kahne at My Old Kentucky Podcast, who did a deep dive into McConnell and his role in the modern day Republican Party.

I was in Louisville when McConnell first ran for Senate. I joined the Courier-Journal in 1984 as a copy editor. My previous gig was as a press aide to Republican Gov. Dick Thornburgh in Pennsylvania. I remember the “hound dogs looking for Dee” ads and thought they were extremely effective, but my friends an co-workers in the Derby City said no one was taking the ads seriously.

They were wrong. And now we have a senator who regularly makes the news by having physical breakdowns. (Guess that’s better than having a senator who gets his ass kicked by his neighbor.)

I pretty much agree with Kahne’s take on McConnell except for one point. He says McConnell’s vote against Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense was a sign of integrity. I think McConnell knows how to count votes and knew there were enough to confirm the unqualified drunk to one of the most important jobs in America. Had there been any doubt, I’m sure he would have voted to confirm.

It will be interesting, though to see how he votes on heroin user RFK Jr., who would get rid of vaccines, including the one for polio, a disease that struck McConnell as a youth.