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‘You don’t have to die in your seat’: Democrats stress over aging members
politico.com ^ | 6/25/21 | MARC CAPUTO

Posted on 06/25/2021 6:43:52 AM PDT by cotton1706

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To: cotton1706

Pelosi ? Anyone


21 posted on 06/25/2021 7:18:54 AM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: cotton1706

My personal theory is that they stay in to protect themselves against the corruption and wrongdoing they’ve committed on their way up the ladder and while in office. They can’t “quit while they’re ahead” and retire like the rest of us would do, because it would be all too easy for their enemies and successors—aspiring or actual—to throw them under the bus for their own benefit, and they can’t cover their six without the power of their office.

To me this also helps explain their increasingly short-term and erratic thinking behind policies, like zero-interest-rate policies, printing money, and committing economic destruction in the name of Covid...for the gerontocracy at the top, this “propping up” of the status quo doesn’t have to be supportable for the future generations, it only has to outlast THEM.


22 posted on 06/25/2021 7:31:12 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: cotton1706

Now they want to euthanize their office holders.


23 posted on 06/25/2021 7:44:10 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: brownsfan

Dead democrats HAVE WON at least two elections - one for the Missouri Senate back during Bush’s term. A second more recently.


24 posted on 06/25/2021 7:52:01 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: cotton1706

The world is a slightly better place now. Though Hell must be getting full.


25 posted on 06/25/2021 7:59:18 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: cotton1706

Serious question here: Once the Old Guard passes on, can the young bomb-throwers fool the public enough to garner majorities on a national scale (by fooling “Independents”)?


26 posted on 06/25/2021 8:33:30 AM PDT by Lysandru
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If there were so many stupid voters Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections.

Just something folks might want to keep in mind.


27 posted on 06/25/2021 8:35:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: cotton1706

I was a high school senior when my US Representative was first elected. Today I’m retired and on SS and Medicare and he’s still there, running for reelection next year.


28 posted on 06/25/2021 8:37:56 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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To: cotton1706

SCOTUS, too.


29 posted on 06/25/2021 8:42:27 AM PDT by bgill
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To: GotMojo

Term limits.


30 posted on 06/25/2021 8:43:05 AM PDT by bgill
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To: cotton1706

Senator Dianne Feinstein is 88 years old and has been in cognitive decline for several years. To the extent Chuckie
Schumer has talked to her on different occasions pleading with her to resign. She refuses.


31 posted on 06/25/2021 8:45:57 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: cotton1706
thanks to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who aimed to keep the solidly Democratic seat unoccupied for as long as possible

So refreshing to see a Republican who fights!

32 posted on 06/25/2021 9:46:38 AM PDT by rhinohunter
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To: Lysandru

I think they’re being set up by the Old Guard to take the fall once the collapse begins.


33 posted on 06/26/2021 5:43:31 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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