Northern Kentucky Tribune: Bill Straub: Time marches on for everyone; has it finally passed Mitch McConnell by — after 38 years?
By BILL STRAUB
Could it be that after 16 years as the Senate Republican boss man Mitch McConnell is losing his fastball?
Time is funny like that. At 81, you wouldn’t expect the Senate Republican leader for seemingly forever to run with the bulls in Pamplona. But there is growing speculation about his physical condition – speculation fueled by the Louisville lawmaker’s custom of keeping any information about maladies, real and imagined, close to the vest, like an experienced poker player in a game of Texas Hold ‘Em.
In the recent past he has been temporarily sidelined by a series of falls and a very odd, not to say disturbing, moment during a press briefing when he stopped in mid-sentence and stared off into space for several seconds before being led away from the podium by fellow GOP lawmakers.