Members of Congress are old. Really old. The House Democrats’ top three leaders are all 78 or 79.
Democrat John Dingell was re-elected to the House every two years from 1955 to 2014, even though he represented Detroit during the period in which the city sank from America’s crown jewel of manufacturing to a symbol of urban blight. In 2014 he was replaced — by his wife.
Republican Strom Thurmond was a racial segregationist born in 1902 who served in the upper chamber from 1956 until 2003. The nation changed, but he remained in office. By the end, his aides were dragging him around and propping him up like a marionette. Who did this serve?
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and who is to blame. cannot the voters see?
Well, it is no longer about honest debate and what is good for the country. Mud slinging is the favorite past time and it is all about the "POWER". Voters are not engaged and listen to the vitriol, untruths, slander, and "Tattlers" hot topics.
And cannot the voters see that it is the Republican Representatives and Senators whose full time job it is to defend Trump , in spite of going against everything that the Republican Party used to be in its principals ?
Answering the rhetorical question: Makes Bernie, Creepy Uncle Joe, Hillary and Fauxahontas seem vibrant in comparison to Dingell and Thurmond.
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