“Because looking beyond the ashes of 2016 and the inevitable initial defeats of 2017, I see immense opportunities for my party and our capacity to lead our country. “
Funny, Harry Reid and I both see an Old Age Home.
Well, they can probably only move upwards from here...and that witch DID get more votes (just in the wrong places). This election saw an independent barely beat a Democrat; there wasn’t even a Republican in the race.
The Dems have to defend 23 Senate seats in 2018. Good luck with that.
The “young” were sitting around bawling their eyes out at the prospect of no free college the last I checked, and the “tolerant” were calling us racist, sexist, homophobes.
I do agree with him that a new generation of young Dems will have emerged by 2020. No more Hill, Joe, Bernie or Liz.
“Funny, Harry Reid and I both see an Old Age Home.”
Well we can laugh at what Reid said, but in the Senate, as an example, there are seven Senators over the age of 80, and SIX of them are Republicans. And in terms of “service” to the country, they collectively represent 21% of the total years of service in that body.
Fineswine (RAT): 24 years (83)
Grassley: 36 years (83)
Hatch: 40 years (82)
Shelby: 30 years (82)
Inhofe: 21 years (81)
Pat Roberts: 20 years (80)
McLame: 30 years (80)
And if you go one more, it gets worse!
Thad Cochran: 38 years (79) and he probably doesn’t know what time of day it is.
So these eight people represent 25% of the years of service while they are only 8% of the membership.
So we can “cluck” about our “Senate leadership,” but we’re the “geriatric party” in the Senate, not the RATs. Trump has his work cut out for him getting these people out of office, all of them, and trying to figure out how to win over our young people.