Where is McConnell?

He was MIA from the McConnell-Kennedy Amnesty Bill debate. He is still MIA from Governor Fletcher's reelection campaign. And now Mitch McConnell is absent from the Iraq debate:

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell was conspicuous by his absence when key Republicans met with White House officials last week on how to limit party defections on Iraq.

And weeks earlier he had raised eyebrows among some of his colleagues by disappearing into the woodwork in the immigration debate, then voting against President Bush's plan.