[Sans-Culotte]

So, long, “Leaky”.

[Fury]

Nooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Roccus]

My prediction.......

A muzzy will replace him

[donozark]

Maybe Ben or Jerry will replace him?

[mikey_hates_everything]

Run, Styx, run!

[clintonh8r]

He sees the writing on the wall. These old crones detest being in the minority.

[outpostinmass2]

Who will be his retched replacement?

[blackdog]

Meh.

[McGruff]

Brandon effect?

[Rummyfan]

Adios Leaky Leahy! This is long long overdue. Vermonters should have retired him years ago.

[patriot torch]

Good ridden senator depends.

[TontoKowalski]

There is an outside chance that a Murkowski RINO type Republican could win this one. Vermont has elected those types on the state level in the past, and considering the current environment for Dems...

But, like I said, an outside chance... I'm putting no money on it.

[Rummyfan]

Late Sen. Jim Jeffords (I-VT) caucused with the Democrats at the end of his career.

Jim Jeffords, the Vermont Dairy Queen. And traitor.

[Red Badger]

He will be replaced by a clone of Bernies....................

[subterfuge]

I remember him, and always will, when he gave a speech on the Senate floor while he was so drunk you could hardly understand a word he was saying.

[Laslo Fripp]

Here’s a dime...

[PghBaldy]

I would have preferred a scandal involving a sex crime, blackface and lack of recycling... He is one of the nastier people in the Senate, which takes some doing.

[wiseprince]

I wonder if the new leftist replacement will make Bernie the moderate Senator from Vermont

[jz638]

Leahy has been barely aware of his surroundings for years and he’ll almost surely be replaced by another Dem or a socialist. Why announce now?

I wouldn’t be surprised if they are trying to spread out the retirements to make it look less like a disaster. Feinstein is likely to be next, but Newsome probably wants a week or two between scandals before he appoints himself and he keeps stepping on rakes.

On the Republican side, Grassley, Shelby, and Inhofe should also be shuffling off to the Villages or writing their memoirs as well. McConnell is also pushing 80. Sure folks can be clear headed and effective in advanced ages, but the longer someone is sitting in a job and not training a replacement, the longer people otherwise qualified to be prepared to step up are getting passed over and resentful.

Nobody should be bigger than the office they hold and nobody should consider their elected office an entitlement.

[falcon99]

No loss! Now if only about 75 others would retire.