Earlier we told you about Mitch McConnell's 'incident'
today while speaking to reporters. This particular occurrence seemed to
set off a groundswell of complaints on Twitter about politicians
staying in office way past their 'best if used by' date. Many prominent
conservative voices had their say.
You mean like Joe, or Mitch, or Feinstein, or … yes the list is long.
— 🌷Silvina🌷 (@SilvinaFlorida) August 30, 2023
Yes, all of the above actually.
If
literally almost every single person in the highest offices of our
government weren't past the expected life expectancy for their gender,
it would be way less concerning.
If they died that would be one thing, but the slip into senesence and then stay.
— John J. Vecchione (@VecchTweets) August 30, 2023
When
is enough “enough” for these people? Elaine?? Do you have a nice comfy
chair at home for Mitch? Suffering like this is ridiculous and cruel!!
Not too nice for Mitch, either.
— GingerLB (@Jebvv5) August 30, 2023
We are looking at the very real possibility of having two men either
at or near eighty years old once again. Why does this keep happening?
How
about 70? People should be enjoying their lives, traveling and playing
with their grandchildren, and not running the most powerful country in
the world.
Heh! Just remodel the old place into a nursing home and move the Capital to somewhere in fly over country.
Biden's
Centennial State fall is hardly the only recent example of a
high-ranking senior citizen appearing less-than-stellar in the public
eye. The 89-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein
(D-CA), whose political career first began in 1970 (one year before
Biden's), recently missed over two months of senatorial work while
recovering from a nasty bout of shingles and encephalitis. When she
finally made her way back to the Capitol, Feinstein, in the words of a
May 18 New York Times
article, "appeared shockingly diminished." Since returning, the
now-wheelchair-bound Feinstein has required additional staff assistance
to merely cast her votes and has apparently forgotten she was ever out
of commission to begin with: "No, I haven't been gone," she told Slate on May 16. Come again?
Overall, an incredible 68% of U.S. senators in the current Congress
are aged 60 or older. The single most popular subgroup, at a whopping
34% of the putative "world's greatest deliberative body," is the
sexagenarians—most of whom are old enough to receive Social Security
benefits. The constitutional minimum age for being a U.S. senator is 30,
but the cumulative share of senators in the current Congress under the
age of 50 is a paltry 10%. There are three times as
many senators in the current Congress aged 70-79 than there are senators
aged 30-49. That ought to be alarming—these men and women are charged
with decisions pertaining to declaring war and assessing our most
sensitive intelligence, among other crucial matters. As for the U.S. Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett
is the youngest justice at age 51, and five of the nine black-robed
oracles are old enough to potentially receive Social Security benefits.
There are exceptions to every rule and that guy is one of them.
Well
said. There are ever evolving challenges in the world and America needs
the absolute best and most capable leadership. It's up to voters to
ensure that happens.
Bailey: The only thing about younger people running our government is that their only real life experiences are TikTok and Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Would you really want someone like that making decisions for America?politicspresumptuous.com
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