Posted on 11/12/2014 3:49:47 PM PST by Zakeet
In politics, there’s nothing harder than realizing that it’s time to go.
People who have made their careers as Beltway politicians start to think they’ve become indispensable to Washington, when in fact it’s Washington that has become indispensable to them. And so they can’t or won’t recognize when the moment has come to move on to other things.
For Democrats Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, that moment has arrived. With the Democrats’ midterm losses, the two 74-year-olds should announce that when this session of Congress ends, they will relinquish their roles as leaders of their respective Democratic caucuses.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
No they should stay they have been very good for their party.
Most of these folks harbor a secret desire to go direct from the Capitol Building to the mortuary.
We had one Dem here in Indiana who pulled it off (Julia Carson), her near comatose presence was wheeled in for floor votes until she breathed her last.
Given the life expectancy for Italian women and Mormon men, Nan and Dirty probably have a couple decades remaining...
You have outlived you usefulness to to collective.
Kinda sucks..don’t it, harry and nan?
Hahaha.......
A case for assisted suicide if there ever was one.....Career wise that is.
I don’t want them to merely leave, I want them jailed and I want my money and country back.
No he doesn't.
Let them stay, let them continue to be the face of the D’s.
Time for both of these “walkers” to go home and spend more time with their money.
“Let them stay, let them continue to be the face of the D’s.”
that’s why the boston globe, a Marxist publication, wants them to leave.
“Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, 75, is a dull, gray, congressional lifer. Jim Clyburn, the third Democrat in line, is 74.”
Good God... minority leader James Clyburn?! He’ll declare his own title racist!
Time for Frank Underwood to make his move.
Reid should just stick to crooked Nevada land deals.
The people who run these liberal media outlets aren’t stupid. What probably bothers them most about last week’s election results is that the Republican Party (remarkably) now comes across as a young, diverse, vibrant group of people ... while the Democrats (also remarkably) are now seen as the party of old white rich people.
Dr. Emanuel. Paging Dr. Emanuel.
Personally, I'm rooting for this brace of Rat babes ... they're the perfect party reps in almost every way!
That little fat one on the right looks like she was a munchkin in the Wizard of Oz.
Right. That’s the kind of thing the proletariat of the People’s Republik of Maryland usually elects.
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