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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
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A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
So what’s their issue with Diane Feinstein?
1He’s going to drop dead out there one day and they’ll just move the podium and continue with their press conference.
2Biden is 80, and the MAGAs say that’s too old to serve.
What about McConnell, at 81?
3If only the freeze were long enough to get him retired. One can only hope.
4Well… if you ask me, they should ALL retire – Mitch, Feinstein, Biden. It,s ridiculous. We consider ourselves the most powerful country in the world, but our leaders are freezing and stumbling and gaffeing etc. There should be age limits. Other professions have a retirement age, but politicians (NB! from BOTH sides of the isle) are clinging year after year to… what? Power? It can’t be money. All of them must have more than enough resources to comfortably retire not just themselves, but also their offspring.
The whole situation painfully reminds me of my younger years in the Soviet Union, when most of the Communist Politburo (government) members had one foot in the grave, so to say.
5@ FrauFree
No, ma’am, we’re keeping Biden til he finishes being the most effective President since LBJ. He can stammer and stumble as much as he likes – his brains and his heart work just fine.
The same cannot be said, unfortunately, about DiFi and Moscow Mitch.
6He’s been having TIAs which indicates having a heart-attack .
7Wow. Whenever someone zones out like that, it usually ends up with some sort of major intervention. Let’s hope the good people of Kaintuck take notice.
8No problem. Some donor needs to put another million into the slot in McConnell’s back, and the tape will continue to roll.
9I’ll admit to disliking McConnell as much as anyone, but I was horrified to see him freeze like that. I understand from some doctors who were writing online that he may have been having a TIA and this can be a major indication of an oncoming stroke, either within a few days or a few months. I wish the senator well but hope he retires soon.
10Msb, I could not have said it better myself. Joe Biden is doing great things for our country. His decades of experience are the best thing we could hope for right now in steering our country through all the craziness Trump has wrought and regaining the respect that horrible fool cost us.
11Who is most likely to be his replacement as obstructionist in charge,(OIC). And could we end up missing Mitch. Frying pan/fire??
12Damned scary.
Having an 82 year old father of my own makes me want to wrap Moscow Mitch in a soft throw and send him home. . . .
Forever.
Mitch made sure of his of his legacy by getting a bill passed last year that won’t let Kentucky’s democratic governor pick a democratic replacement.
13@Msb #6 – I can see your point, but when we are (hypothetically, so far) talking about age limits of government officials, it’s about the year of birth, not heart and brains.
I went to Faux News yesterday to check out what people (commentators) are saying about Mitch. Did not go through all the thousands of comments of course, but among the bunch I glanced through there was not even ONE which would NOT say “Mitch should retire because of his age.” So there seems to be at least SOMETHING both sides of the aisle agree about.
14Classic example of a TIA mini-stroke. My mother had them and would have the same reaction as Mitch. Five minutes later she would be back to normal. One time she commented that she knew everything that was taking place in front of her, but could not speak or move.
15I agree Di Fi needs to pass the torch and certainly Mr obstruction needs to go. I also agree that an elderly and I believe fit and great president and leader, Joe Biden, is more than capable in office. I just hope he knows when it’s his time to pass the torch and actively gets involved in picking a successor. Hope he does it before he has to. Nothing wrong with a new younger leader that is prepared for the presidency.
16If Mitch just stood in front of a microphone or in the Senate and continued to say nothing (and not vote) I’d be in favor of him sticking around as long as he wants.
17One of the signs of a sick society is when people take glee over others misfortune. The whole Paul Pelosi situation immediately comes to mind. Yet, these emotions are undeniable and hard earned. It’s just incredibly sad on a certain level, but completely understandable at the same time.
18Figuring out how to blame Hunter Biden for it in 3, 2, 1…..
19Classic TIA. The fact that they did not rush him to hospital, but instead took him in a back room to slap him back awake and then trotted him back out again, is pure and simple elder abuse. Horrific and vile. It won’t work next time, or maybe the time after that, but they’re obviously not thinking that far ahead. (NB. I assume that they all knew exactly what was happening, because if they had not recognized it, that level of ignorance is unthinkable.)
20Here we go…
21“Feinstein gets confused in Senate Appropriations hearing and has to be prodded to vote”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/politics/dianne-feinstein-senate-committee-vote/index.html
FrauFree, I agree (mostly) with you. The Democratic party, and progressives in general, need to be looking at a future that extends more than 2 years ahead. Every election, the US loses thousands of COFs (cantakerous old, uh, folks) but hundreds of thousands of young people reach 18 and can vote. My experience is tilted towards those in college or high school, but almost all of them regard the older generation as having ruined a good thing for generations to come. Not just the Republicans, but all the olds.
We need to get those newly empowered voters to (a) vote, and (b) line up and support a progressive future. Yes, Biden is doing good things compared to the shrieking ape that preceeded him in office. But we need to stop playing it safe, and stake out people and positions that will get the US out of its political death spiral.
In 2008 it was the young voters that put Obama in office. He wasted all that good will and enthusiasm by “reaching across the aisle” and trying to get conservatives on-board, which soured many of them. Even when the Senate Majority Leader McConnell said his number one goal was to get Obama out of office, he kept “compromising” to get Republican support. That is one reason Republicans were able to take back an extraordinary number of offices, even for an off-year election, in 2010.
There are local Democratic groups all over the country that are ready to jump into the 20-th century (not a typo), but it seems at the national level the party is fossilized with fools that think that if they just concede a little more, the Republicans will join in and help govern the country.
Me, I hope the day will come when I can vote for AOC as president.
22Well said, Surly Professor! Biden has done a fine (not at all perfect) job, but he should have stuck with his earlier promise to be a transitional, reparative president. I’m very afraid that young people will just not vote in 2024, because he’s so unexciting and so damn old. (I’m 77 myself.) He seems to be running driven by sheer egotism, and the Dems have sadly not cultivated a strong bench of candidates who could step up if Biden has a health crisis before the election. There’s a real lack of long-term planning. And don’t get me started on the DNC!
23The embedded OP video must have overloaded the Goog, it’s been showing some error type messages instead.
InOtherNeuws: Indictments for Mr. Mango Manboobs might be just around the corner. It’s been awful quiet about him in the news lately, hardly any mentions of His Horribilis at all, so nice. He must be hunkered down avoiding the media for a change.
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The Surly Professor @22, The main reasons that I became very down on Obama, he crippled the Democratic Party for decades, let alone infuriating some of us with that ‘play nice’ bullshit against sworn enemies out to destroy him and us.
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24The same goes for some of the locals here, with the “Love and Forgiveness” crap.
Y’all are locked in a deadly war of annihilation with the most vicious enemies ever, whether you realize it or not.
You don’t win, or even survive, this by playing nice. You hate them and do everything possible to utterly destroy them. Because that’s what they intend to do to you.
I know, we should not hoot and cavort about an old man having a ministroke. But … as usual, the Onion has the most devasting short take:
“Doctors confirm McConnell had a stroke after imaging a happy black person”
As for love and forgiveness, there’s a different Texas-Scots-Irish tradition: know who your friends are and take care of them; know who your enemies are and go after them. Given the hate and sheer destruction he’s carried out in his career while serving himself and profiting from it, I won’t shed tears over his demise, either political or physical. I won’t go across the street to kick him, but won’t start a GoFundMe account to create a monument to him.
25The Surly Professor @25, The monument for Mango Manboobs had better have a large moat around it, with a very good filter system.
26I’ve never been to DC, presumably where such a sickening edifice would be. But I’d travel to visit it, with a six pak and a jug of icewater first, to give it a long whizz…
Nick @18.
I understand what you’re saying “when people take glee over others misfortune.”
I generally agree, with the caveat that sometimes context comes into play.
It’s like the Christian message “Peace on Earth, and good will toward men.” Some religious scholars say it was mistranslated and should read “Peace on Earth to Men of Good Will.”
27Nick @18
28I’ll go with the Moms Mabley comment, “Don’t say nothing but good of the dead. He’s dead. GOOD!”
@ various
Uninterested in term limits, except for SCOTUS. A 20-year max for each justice would enable most presidents to choose one and take the heat out of and reduce the stakes for each nomination.
One of the reasons I support Biden is that he is the clear choice of Ds of color – the backbone of the party in more senses than one and those with the best knowledge of what’s at stake. For the foreseeable future, EVERY election will be “the most important of our lives” and must be fought in that knowledge. I’d love to vote for AOC for higher office, when she knows at least half of what Pelosi does. She is plainly learning fast.
Obama did well as Pres, except when hampered by his inexperience and the fact of being the First Black President. He knew well he was working in a racist environment.
29Personally I loath Moscow Mitch, but I don’t wish him ill (much).
But Albania invades you say. I first misread it to say Alabama.
30I’m disappointed to see so much Biden-bashing over his gaffes–I lived through too many years of GWB as my governor and then the Pres. I don’t think Biden has out-gaffed Bush yet…
31I thought Barasso was at there among a lot of other R Senators. Isn’t he supposed to be a doctor? Don’t tell me he did next to nothing!!!
32TIA? Mebbe. But I am about the sane age and from time to time I annot speakfor several sconfds because my swallowing muscle seize
33s up. Nothing to do with cognition, just none of the parts work as well as once they used to.
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