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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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.

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Kind of reminds me of The Peoples Republic of China - Central Committee and their current military leadership. They should all (Congressional Leadership and China’s leaders) be wearing AARP caps and tooling around in those little electric scooters.


No matter the age or state of health, for a military man it is always glorious to tilt at windmills, rescue a fair Dulcinea and be a gallant knight in armor in a glorious cause.

Neiman on May 21, 2008 at 12:33 pm

It would seem that country as a whole is becoming more politically aware. Through cable news and the internet we have access to nearly every bit of news. It also seems it’s made us more opinionated. That includes congress. Now as voters, we pick the “same ole”, overlooking their shortcomings, because their opinions are close to what we think we ought to think. We never get to form our opions of new candidates before the “talking heads” have either torn them apart, or gotten “all tingley” and shoved them down our throats, as in the case of O bomber.
We are more informed and less driven to change. O bomber is NOT change.


Why pay the price for telling the truth, when lying don’t cost nuthin’ -Mohair Sam

Mohair Sam on May 21, 2008 at 12:50 pm

If they didn’t have such good health insurance

WOOF on May 21, 2008 at 03:34 pm
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If they didn’t have such good health insurance

Once Obama/Clinton pass nationalized healthcare the insurance our elected officials enjoy (yet is not available to the rest of us) will be gone, and we’ll all have the same healthcare, right?  Then the longevity achieved by the free market will be a thing of the past.  We won’t have to worry about this given the future of healthcare, right?

HG on May 21, 2008 at 03:41 pm

I think it is sad that these men stay in power this long. I would rather spend the later years of my life with family and friends.



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dougee on May 21, 2008 at 05:39 pm
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I saw Robert “KKK” Byrd on the floor of the Senate this AM on CNN. He appropriately looked like a doddering old fool, blubbering nearly incoherently.



Barack Obama: All hat and no cattle since 1997!


Proof on May 21, 2008 at 05:48 pm

Hey I’ve got an idea! How about we pass a law that says you can only be in office for so long then you have to go BACK HOME! Preferably to work in the private sector under the laws you just passed?
Nah, on second thought, who would vote for it. Never mind I said anything. Dumb idea.

Good Ol Boy on May 21, 2008 at 07:06 pm

I thought that the Republican Contract with America had, at its core, the promise to get rid of the same-old-same-old and not become career politicians. Didn’t last long did it?

ollie-B on May 21, 2008 at 09:57 pm
Seth Yantiss on May 22, 2008 at 06:03 am

I saw Robert “KKK” Byrd on the floor of the Senate this AM on CNN.

Has Robert “KKK” Byrd endorsed anyone for president yet?


Excuse me, you were saying?


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realitybasedbob on May 22, 2008 at 06:17 am
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Has Robert “KKK” Byrd endorsed anyone for president yet?

Some half white guy, I think! But, he doesn’t have a blue dress, either!
(As far as we know!)



Barack Obama: All hat and no cattle since 1997!


Proof on May 22, 2008 at 06:32 am
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rbb: Or is your point that when it comes to Presidential hopefuls, that an old Southern bigot is a bigger misogynist than he is a racist?



Barack Obama: All hat and no cattle since 1997!


Proof on May 22, 2008 at 06:34 am
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