Addiction, their is something going on here. Look how many Reps and Senators that are old that can't or won't leave; Levin, Dingell, McCain, Spectre, he had to be booted. Now look how many died in Office, Kennedy, Byrd etc.
Their is something wrong with this picture.
Everyone talks about addictions to Drugs, Alcohol etc. We have people here IMHO that may have a new one, an addiction to Power.
IMHO Lugar has now entered this category. It is time for a Hoosier of Stature to run against him and retire him in the primaries via beating him for the nomination, when he doesn't have the common sense to do it on his own.
It's not new at all. It's as old as the existence of creation.