Geezer Senate Dealing With Being Old, Sickly
The Associated Press calls the health struggles of Senators Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd and Arlen Specter “reminders of the fragility of power.”
What utter bunk.
Really the “oldest-ever Senate” (the average age of Senators in this Congress is higher than ever) is nothing more than a reminder of how many career politicians we have in office now as compared to average citizens who aspired to represent their fellow Americans. Not to mention a reminder of how these career politicians cling to power long after their vitality fades.
After all, how many of the septuagenarian and octogenarian Senators are really doing all the grinding, day-to-day work of the Senate instead of serving as little more than an electable figurehead for coalitions of aids and kingmakers who do the real politicking?
If nothing else, we should look at the graying Senate and ask ourselves why we keep sending the same-old-same-old back to Washington.












