Posted on 06/05/2021 5:41:57 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The Washington Post reports that the current U.S. Senate is the oldest in American history. Dianne Feinstein turns 88 this month. Charles Grassley turns 88 in September.
Richard Shelby is 87. James Inhofe is 86. Patrick Leahy is 81. Twenty-three senators are in their 70s. The average age of senators at the beginning of this year was 64.3 years.
It may be that being 88 now is like being, say, 78 a few decades ago. So despite being the oldest, this might not be the most age-impaired Senate in our history. Robert Caro’s book about the Lyndon Johnson-dominated Senate makes it clear that more than a few solons of the 1950s were rendered largely useless by age and/or drink.
Dianne Feinstein and some of the other Senators cited in the Post’s article insist they are still as sharp as a tack. But there must be a few who are losing it. A local pharmacist said in 2017 that he routinely sends Alzheimer’s medication to Capitol Hill.
In reality, it’s likely that most, if not all, of the Senators in their 80s and late 70s aren’t nearly as sharp as they used to be. To me, the interesting question is whether they realize this.
Most people I know in their 70s are constantly on the lookout for signs of mental impairment. I’m 72 and freak out if I can’t remember the fifth starter for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Sinecures didn’t used to make people really wealthy, but working in government now apparently does. Who would ever give such a job up?
Two Words..Term Limits!
Yet voters will continue to elect them, like useless 88 year old Feinstein.
I’m only 67 and I’ve suffered from CRS for 25 years!
They’re past Zeke Emmanuel’s TERMINATION DATE.
I think some of these old codgers stay in office for the same reasons mobsters don’t retire, they know that their past will catch up to them.
That and they can't give up the perks and the prestige. Let the staffers do all the work, they only have to show up for photo ops and such.
Uproar as Capitol Hill pharmacist dishes on Alzheimer’s prescriptions for the powerful
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/uproar-as-capitol-hill-pharmacist-dishes-on-alzheimers-prescriptions-for-the-powerful
Of course, he has promptly walked his comment(s) back:
“At first it’s cool, and then you realize, I’m filling some drugs that are for some pretty serious health problems as well. And these are the people that are running the country,” Grubb’s Pharmacy’s Dr. Michael Kim told STAT News, reportedly citing treatments for conditions like diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
“It makes you kind of sit back and say, ‘Wow, they’re making the highest laws of the land and they might not even remember what happened yesterday,’” he said.
By Thursday, Kim was busy cleaning up the fallout from his comments, as social media lit up with questions about which lawmakers he might have been talking about.
The pharmacist clarified to the same publication that he didn’t actually know whether a member of Congress has Alzheimer’s.
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But Kim underscored that he had “no personal knowledge of any members with Alzheimer’s.”
“But even if I did, I could not tell you or anyone else because of privacy laws,” Kim wrote in the email. “I never said that anyone actually had Alzheimer’s. The comment was taken out of context during a lighthearted conversation and was a broad comment made in a hypothetical nature.”
Maybe we should call all older Americans ‘senator’ - it would keep them in the workforce and save Social Security a fortune.
We need a new government.
Well, when you realize they are not there to represent the voters in DC but to obscure what The Deep State decides to do from the voters, then I guess senility is a major advantage. :)
I’m 58 and I don’t know the fifth starter for the Arizona Diamonbacks either.
I'm 63 and I can't name a single player on the Dbacks! And back in the day when I was participating in rotisserie baseball, I knew the stats of just about every player in MLB.
I used to be a baseball nerd. Played on an over-30 team and everything. However, between the 1994 strike, and today’s Marxist wokeness, I don’t even know how the Texas Rangers are doing.
Term limits and\or Repeal the 17th Amendment !
Overreliance on analytics has killed my enjoyment of MLB. Players going woke was the final nail.
Why should they give up the job? They have staffers who do all their work for them. All they have to do is dress up and pretend to be statesmen on tv.
As Rush said, “Politics is show biz for the ugly”.
Question is.... how many have actually had a real job.
“I could not tell you or anyone else because of privacy laws...”
Surely ye jest as privacy no longer exists unless you’re totally off the grid.
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