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Leahy: Too many in Washington ‘don’t care about the country’
The Hill ^ | 12/21/2022 | OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN

Posted on 12/21/2022 8:17:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Retiring Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said in an interview that too many politicians in Washington “don’t care” about the country, only about their “political ambitions.”

In an interview with The Associated Press published Wednesday, Leahy said when he first joined the Senate in 1975, senators found ways to get things done regardless of differing views.

Leahy, 82, the Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, has spent the last 48 years in the Senate and serves as the chamber’s president pro tempore and is third in line to the presidency.

“I think then, most of [the senators] knew there were basic things the Senate should do, basic things the country needed, and we should find a way to come together,” Leahy told the AP.

“Now, there are too many people who think, ‘What can I say that will get me on the evening news or give me a sound bite or get me on this Twitter account,’ or something else. They don’t care about the country. They care about their political ambitions

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Vermont; Your Opinion/Questions
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Project much you ding bat?
1 posted on 12/21/2022 8:17:54 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Probably just a coincidence that they are all commie RAT MAGA haters.


2 posted on 12/21/2022 8:22:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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Not even close. The Repukes are just as bad


3 posted on 12/21/2022 8:24:09 AM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lordy, what did Leaky ever do good for America? Hopefully, he’s a least a little bit like men who work into their eighties. They retire and soon die. By the way, there’s a party at my place when that happens. You’re all invited.


4 posted on 12/21/2022 8:25:10 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe he looked in the mirror.


5 posted on 12/21/2022 8:25:34 AM PST by Pearfect (o)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pot, meet kettle.


6 posted on 12/21/2022 8:26:21 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Career politicians are the problem.


7 posted on 12/21/2022 8:26:51 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
only about their “political ambitions.”

Only about lining their pockets.

8 posted on 12/21/2022 8:27:44 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Leaky Leahy, is nearing a terminal state and now he has the gall to admonish others of what he spent his entire corrupt life doing. Save it, hypocrite.


9 posted on 12/21/2022 8:31:56 AM PST by Obadiah (Died suddenly: Obediently following the science to your grave.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How many Democrats do? Joe Manchin? Former Democrats Tulsi Gabbard and Krysten Sinema?


10 posted on 12/21/2022 8:32:25 AM PST by Kazan
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I don’t trust Sinema. I will say Tulsi did give up her Congressional Seat, so I would trust her a lot more than Sinema.


11 posted on 12/21/2022 8:33:28 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Leaky - $30+ Trillion in debt plus liabilities. Absolutely correct, you don’t give a $#it about this country!


12 posted on 12/21/2022 8:34:41 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: wiseprince

Probably half or a bit more of Republicans do care about this country and are patriots. But, Mitch McConnell and the GOP establishment has made it clear they will never be allowed to control the party.


13 posted on 12/21/2022 8:35:25 AM PST by Kazan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

IIRC that was Aaron Burr’s problem.


14 posted on 12/21/2022 8:36:02 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, especially the ones that leak secret information while being in charge of seeing that secret information is not leaked.
Democrats have no moral North Star and don’t even care that they they don’t.


15 posted on 12/21/2022 8:37:05 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He is/was part of the great, big, happy family there in DC.
It’s just one merry party, the UniParty...and the tax-paying, “unwashed masses” ain’t invited....and never will be. We’re nothing but cattle to these SOBs...to be “milked” every payday and then again on April 15th.
It’s one elitist bird with two wings that greedily feasts like a little piglet at the teat known as public tax trough. And Lord help anyone that might even think about getting between it and that slop trough.


16 posted on 12/21/2022 8:38:30 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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If you ever thought you really had a choice, look at this picture.
17 posted on 12/21/2022 8:39:58 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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“has spent the last 48 years in the Senate”

That’s quite a long time for any pig to feed at a trough..

Must not have much ambition to leave the piggy bank..


18 posted on 12/21/2022 8:40:14 AM PST by delchiante
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now he tells us!......................🤦‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤦‍♀️


19 posted on 12/21/2022 8:40:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Says the poster boy for political ambitions.


20 posted on 12/21/2022 8:43:38 AM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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