These politicians do not consider the welfare of the little, insignificant citizens far beneath them.
We are as tiny to their notice as someone looking down from a skyscraper to see the antlike pedestrians on street level.
Longest “serving” Member of Congress was in the US House from 1955 to 2015. John Dingell (D). For 59 years.
He took over after his own father and later Dingell’s wife Debbie completed a term and then ran for her own terms. There today. All Dingell.
John Dingell lived to age 92.
In the last years he had a young man help him to his seat in his wheelchair and indicate the votes were in progress. Then Dingell, whose head was slumped forward near his knees, would tell the aide to indicate the vote yea or nay.
P.S. He was a staunch and genuine supporter of gun owner rights and held off a lot of anti-gun meddling for decades.
John Dingell lived to age 92.
Trashed by the Leftist rag The New Republic: “
The Senate version of the bill left open the possibility that the new Consumer Product Safety Act could apply to the most potentially un-safe consumer products of all: firearms and bullets.
But a congressman slipped an obscure provision into the House version of the bill stating that any products covered by “Title 26, Section 4181 of the U.S. Code”—that is, guns—would be exempt.
The congressman? John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, an avid hunter—and for years a member of the board of directors of the National Rifle Association.”
((We’re supposed to gasp and shake our heads now.))
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