If Mitch McConnell has even a single functioning brain cell left to his name, sequestered away in a D.C. hospital surrounded by Capitol police, he spent this week reading his own obituary — and it was far from flattering.
As McConnell remains hospitalized for 39 days and counting, following a medical emergency at his D.C. home — the details of which are murky and only get murkier — an opinion columnist for the Kentucky senator’s own hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier Journal, penned a fiery pre-obituary, outlining the “detestable” legacy being left behind by the Republican lawmaker.
Columnist Joseph Gerth explained that he penned the 84-year-old congressman’s obituary while he’s still alive (as far as we know, anyway) in an effort to avoid the backlash that always comes with saying bad things about a recently dead person, as we saw with recently deceased Senator Lindsey Graham: “How dare you say that about a guy who just died?”