Posted on 07/02/2018 6:41:53 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Some septuagenarian House Democrats have a message for their younger colleagues clamoring for a spot at the leadership table: Age ain’t nothin’ but a number.
Democrats in their 70s have started pushing back against some of the more youthful members of the Democratic Caucus who are making noise about launching leadership bids in the wake of Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley’s stunning primary loss last week to 28-year-old Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York.
Older lawmakers argue that just because Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), 78, and her top lieutenants are getting up there in years doesn’t mean they’re not progressive or effective. Instead, they say it’s their decades of experience fighting in the trenches on a range of issues — from the gender pay gap and gun control to LGBT rights — that make them the right ones to lead the fight against President Trump and the Republicans.
“If we get back the House, Nancy Pelosi deserves to be the speaker,” said Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), a Pelosi ally. “She is leading this effort to get these candidates elected. She is barnstorming the country. She is helping to fashion the message.”
Frankel, who turned 70 in May, noted that septuagenarians of all stripes are some of the most popular politicians in the country today: former Vice President Joe Biden, 75; Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), 76; and President Trump, who is 72.
“This should not be a generational fight at all,” Frankel added. “And people who want to make it into a generational fight are, quite frankly, people who don’t like seniority because they want power.”
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Dems. got a problem with their young whipper snappers???
These people are whack-a-doodles!
Socialism now! Socialism for all!
The socialist Gulag Generation want to lead. Lead us to eating our pets and zoo animals.
Dem Party starting to come apart at all it’s balkanized seams.
Young whippersnappers worried about their future are going to look around and see that their future is suddenly getting an awful lot brighter.
Of course, the super radical college activists will not change, but that is a small (but vocal) segment of the youth demographic. Most kids are just trying to get a job. And suddenly ... they are.
FDR, in particular, is greatly overrated. It was only World War II which changed his legacy from abject failure to merely sub-par mediocrity.
But remember when the Dems made fun of McCain’s age in 2008 and the GOP was the party of old white men.
“Older lawmakers argue that just because Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), 78, and her top lieutenants are getting up there in years doesn’t mean they’re not progressive or effective”
They’ve been communists their whole lives but fortunately not all that effective.
Lincoln was way over-rated as well. Washington is all by himself.
In so many ways, we are living George Orwell’s “1984”.
On Monday, it’s “You can’t trust the old white men in the GOP”.
On Tuesday, it’s “Respect your elders in the DNC”.
We’ve always been at war with East Asia.
Nice try, but it isn’t the “Yutes” that are pushing back. It’s the Hispanics.
Stupid White Liberals thought they could import voters and stay in power forever. Bzztt. Wrong. The Hispanics aren’t going to let Whites rule them, they only want one of their own.
Before they were content to wait and let the old baby boomer Liberal in office die before moving in, but now they got the numbers they are getting a bit uppity and ain’t going to wait around.
After Cortez’s victory the floodgates will open and the 2020 Primary season will be a blood bath for White Liberals.
This tells me a few things: one, Democrat congressmen are otherwise unemployable, two, power mad and selfish and do not care in the slightest about the younger ones, and three, probably the main reason we'll never have term limits.
If they retire then all their dirty little secrets are fair game—because they don’t have the clout to silence their victims and witnesses to their crimes.
(Remember Dennis Hastert?—uniparty member with big skeletons in the closet...)
It is just that simple—they _can’t_ retire.
Most of Lincoln's other mistakes were appendages to this big one. Had he lived to serve out his second term, we may have had a very enlightened Reconstruction Era rather then the near disaster which resulted from the radical faction wanting to punish the south.
I believe Lincoln was a great president, and would rate him as #4 after Washington, Jefferson and Reagan . . . with a possibility to drop to #5 once history delivers the verdict on Donald Trump. Still, not a bad legacy.
Is the “indispensable” John Lewis of GA, the one with the angry face, on the list?
Well, Bob Dole said FDR was one of his “heroes”, and Richard Nixon was a huge admirer of Woodrow Wilson; Barry Goldwater, an admirer of Truman. What Republican presidents admired past Republican presidents? Reagan on Coolidge, I guess is one of the few.
Nope, no John Lewis. He must be under 36 years.
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