missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

In the vein of " You can have my weapon when you pry it from my cold dead hands ".
" You can have my senate seat back when you pry my 101 year old cold dead carcass off of it "


Dianne Feinstein Is Everything That's Wrong With the Senate — And It Has Nothing to Do With Her Politics

According to ABC News, the oldest member of the United States Senate doesn't really have an exit strategy for her job:
The nation's oldest U.S. senator looks like she's sticking around.
California's Dianne Feinstein turns 84 on Thursday and is displaying signs that she's headed for a re-election campaign, not a retirement party.
While the Democrat has been coy when asked about seeking a fifth full term next year, her political committee, unambiguously titled Feinstein for Senate 2018, raised more than $650,000 in the first three months of this year in a cue she is looking ahead.
When the 17th Amendment to the Constitution was first ratified just over a century ago, Americans probably weren't envisioning a Senate that would one day become a literal old boys and girls network.
That Feinstein is considering another run for a six-year term when she becomes 85 seems absurd at first, but why would a senator want to leave? They spend five years of every term living the good life and only have to really get their hands dirty in the sixth.
The Senate as it is presently constituted is a bit long in the tooth even relative to that august body's history. From Daily News Gems:
The average age of Members of the House at the beginning of the 115th Congress was 57.8 years; of Senators, 61.8 years, among the oldest in U.S. history.
Senators hanging around far past their freshness date is a truly bipartisan affair.
Republicans John McCain and Orrin Hatch are 80 and 83, respectively. McCain spends his days speaking a little too freely, and often showing his age. Hatch, now in his seventh term, was originally elected to the Senate by complaining about entrenched incumbency.
His Democratic opponent had served three terms. Hatch is now gearing up for an eighth term.
Because of his none-too-friendly relationship with then-candidate Trump, John McCain appeared to be ready for an unseating in Arizona last year but it didn't happen.
The Hill has some perspective on just how difficult it is to knock out an incumbent:
Even more significantly, the incumbent has a dramatic advantage in issue knowledge, local media contacts and relationships and the rhythms of the political process. This advantage often is used to make an opponent look foolish or unprepared for the big stage. And most important, mainstream K Street Republican incumbents have the monetary advantage that allows them to frame challengers in a negative light so stark that not even their mothers would vote for them.
To win, the primary challenger needs to run a flawless race, and even then, unless the incumbent has made fatal errors, that might not be enough to win.
Given that, if a state has a history keeping one party in a Senate seat, the best shot of getting rid of an incumbent would have to come from within the party, and that is almost impossible to do.
Which means that these people could stay in until they drop.
The idea of career politicians was unusual in the early days of the Republic, and people obviously didn't live as long back then. Had they been told that the Senate might one day morph into a body of nonagenarian zombies-in-waiting, they would almost certainly done something to mitigate the horror.
Especially if they had considered that these zombies eat tax dollars rather than brains.

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JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Excellent eye opener. Maybe Trump should push term limits. That way he could get all the asshats in Washington to hate him.

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

If only President Trump had some leverage with this congress . He does not have much as of this moment .
Even if he did he would be asking the fattest hog's at the trough to move away from it . They make the laws
that dictate just how long they can continue to gorge themselves.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

I believe he would do himself a lot of good with the people (especially Independents) if he would call for term limits using the statistics shown. the majority of Americans are for term limits so Trump by calling for them would let the DC slime balls on slit their own throats.

missinglink Loc: Tralfamadore

It would embarrass some. They are very thick skinned however and very vindictive .
I would enjoy the squirming . But it would never , ever , go to a vote . To bad . At
least then we would know who stood where .