He’s 76 freaking years old! Are the elderly not able to just retire now a day?
We've turned our elected officials into royalty, royalty are royalty for life. Have you seen their perks, and how they are feted and treated? Go down to see your Senator speak somewhere. Do you think you can even get close enough to ask them a question, and they work for you? Don't even try it, their armed guards will arrest you.
You're absolutely right. Didn't even cross my mind, and I retired at 55. Guess I've become conditioned to the Senate being a nursing home. Good illustration of what media conditioning has brought me to tolerate.