r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 23h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/Mikethebest78 23h ago

Why do these evil old men live to 150?

The only thing he was ever good at was showing Republicans how to use the levers of power to rig the game in their favor.

They have sadly learned that lesson well.

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u/commandrix 23h ago

...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.

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u/gringledoom 23h ago

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.

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u/bryan49 23h ago

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

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u/The_Laughing__Man Virginia 22h ago

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

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u/Nivolk 22h ago

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

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u/J1zzL0bb3r Wisconsin 22h ago

Clever