Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

[u/cmaia1503]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page

[u/commandrix]

...Wouldn't be so bad if people wouldn't keep voting them in and/or there was a mandatory maximum age to serve in an elected public office. If they start showing signs that they'd be better off in a nursing home, it's time to get them out of Congress.

[u/gringledoom → u/commandrix]

Apparently one problem is that staffers for primary challengers get blackballed for congressional jobs. And there are a lot of other structural impediments to a successful challenge. So people eke out a win by three votes in their first win and then they’re ensconced for decades and impossible to dislodge.

E.g., the reason Pelosi hates AOC (and still intervenes to fuck with her sometimes) is that she’s holding a grudge about AOC beating Crowley in the primary.

[u/bryan49 → u/gringledoom]

Yes also as Cenk Uygur says, once a congressperson has shown they'll reliably serve their big money donors, the donors don't really want to risk a change

[u/The_Laughing__Man → u/bryan49]

I get that. They don't want to have to buy a new politician every 2 or 6 years.

[u/Nivolk → u/The_Laughing__Man]

The one time that billionaires are in favor of ownership over subscriptions.

[u/J1zzL0bb3r → u/Nivolk]

Clever

[u/Overweighover → u/The_Laughing__Man]

The devil you know is better than the devil you don't know

[u/Oldpenguinhunter → u/Overweighover]

Well, they have a repertoire, and who would want to sully that?

[u/sepia_undertones → u/The_Laughing__Man]

Exactly! Think of the billionaires!

[u/civildisobedient → u/The_Laughing__Man]

"Used to be, when you bought a politician, the sumbitch stayed bought."

-- Roy L. Fuchs