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Thomas Jefferson left office at the age of 65. He died at the age of 83. Back then politics was not supposed to be a profession, let alone a lifetime sinecure. Dying in public office was not supposed to be the objective. But once politics became a profession, politicians tried to stay in office for their entire lives and so we have a series of scandals involving public offices who are quite old and quite out of it.
One House Democrat who knows Norton’s work from the Oversight Committee told Axios that during efforts to pass D.C. statehood in 2020 and 2021, she “wasn’t talking to many people.”
Last week Norton staffers hedged after she told reporters she planned to run for a 19th term next year.
Norton’s floor time dropped from 44 days between 2019 to 2020 to just 18 days from 2023 to 2024. She’s spoken a handful of times so far this year.
A third House Democrat said their own observation of Norton from working with her on a committee is that she essentially goes through the motions and little else: “She shows up to committee, she reads the speech.”
“All of that is true,” said a fourth House Democrat. “She reads what her staff puts in front of her. She can’t say anything she’s not reading. That’s a staff-driven office now, just like you saw in the Senate with Feinstein,” referencing the late California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
She’s missing stuff,” a senior House Democrat said of Norton’s apparent decline, telling Axios that Democratic leadership’s deliberations about her potential reelection bid are “delicate.”
Dems keep pushing this notion that there was some vast conspiracy to keep Biden’s mental state secret. Except this stuff is routine.
It’s not a conspiracy when it’s out front and it’s commonplace. We’ve had these same stories pop up about a number of House members already. Some were pushed into stepping down, others gave up leadership roles, but stayed on.
D.C. is becoming an old age home because politics has become a lifetime profession. There are fewer swing seats so House members, especially in the black community like Norton, simply never leave.
It’s just as well. She may accidentally vote for something decent.
It’s appalling but term limits won’t change anything, if anything term limits will make it worse as Americans keep getting dummer and dummer by the generation due to terrible miseducation at the public and private schools.
In the last years before the fall of Rome there were twenty-five emperors in twenty-five years, that’s a term limit of one year per dictator.
So long as the schools are teaching stupidity we’ll have stupid voters.
Speaking of miseducation, you meant “dumber and dumber”.
Since you are obviously stupid do us a favor and don’t vote
Says the guy who posted “bullets hurt.” How stupid is that?
Sounds pretty smart to me.
You don’t understand term limits do you? Term limits will keep elected officials from getting too powerful and too indentured to lobbyists and the deep state
And not allow us to continue to e-elect the good ones.
I’m on the fence concerning term limits. But I can say I wouldn’t mind the turn over it’d bring.
Sen. Voinovich (Rino) was asked about the “Fairness Doctrine” on Sean Hannity (the bill flaming liberals kept introducing known as the “Hush Rush” bill.)
It was immediately clear the shithead Senator had zero knowledge about the bill.
He & many others like the comforts of Congress & don’t bother with conviction or research; hence they’re handed Q-cards by their staff on how to vote on the floor.
The bitch Feinstein was the latest example.
With the possible exception of John Fetterman, all practicing Democ-rats are braindead. It’s a prerequisite for spouting their “woke” nonsense.
rat-mofos will do anything
88 is old as fuck. Clint Eastwood is still vital at age 95 but most people are gone by their late eighties. Strong guys who live well like AA make it but most of us don’t and won’t. I know for sure I’m not going to make it. A dissipated lifetime of malfeasance doesn’t exactly ensure longevity.
We sure don’t need those relics ruling over us. Somebody just shoot Nasty Pelosi and put us out of her misery. She’s what, a hundred? And she’s evil, like fellow mannequin, Chucky Schemer. Just die, you motherfuckers.
At 88 her brain is probably petrified.
Keep exercising Jeff, and you can stay healthy past 65. I think exercise is the key, plus avoiding injuries by not pushing the body beyond its limits. Hernias are particularly bad.
Sounds like good advice to me!
I’ve never suffered a hernia but I’ve been cursed by most everything else. I’ve had most every part of my body ripped and torn except my Johnson at one point or another. Wasted youth and all that. Unfortunately, it was usually my face.
Weirdly enough, at age 60, my main exercise is sex. I do it much more often than when I was young. And I do it with chicks in their forties up to a 69 year old. What can I say? I’m a pervert. Three or four of my neighbors, too. Maybe five. Who counts? There are 83 units here so I’m surprised there aren’t more. Most of them are unattractive, though. I don’t even remember all their names. Sometimes I just call them “Babe” because I don’t want to admit I forgot.
Never call a black chick “baby,” though. They don’t like that for some reason but they do like to be called “babe.” Go figure. I’ve never asked them why. I don’t think even they know why. The only thing worse is to call one a bitch. They go ballistic over that. Don’t ever do it.
It’s not a kind thing to say anyway.
Term limits for elected officials are a substitute for informed and caring voters. Term limits for federal employees are a really good idea. Most new elected officials inherit a staff that is more committed to their personal interests than those of either the state the official represents or those of the republic. The same is true of the federal bureaucracy, a flotilla larger and less maneuverable than a herd of aircraft carriers. Presidents and their secretaries come and go, but the collective purpose of agencies never change: to accrete power and pay.
It will take a judicial revolution to put the federal government back in the box the founders built to contain it. Or, it will take a general collapse of the republic, followed by reconstruction – one by those actually understand the meaning of the Constitution and devoted to rebuilding a federal government as defined by it.
Yes, it’s impossible not to hate petty bureaucrats and want them dead.
Oh, that reminded me. Mommsen, the greatest classicist of the 1800s, said that rule by petty bureaucrats was the worst form of tyranny.
Is she Senile or just plain Normal?
She looks like she might have been hot before she was under 100 years old.
I’ve never been with an 88 year old but I was with a 69 year old when I was drunk. Lots of times.
Too bad she’s a left-wing retard.
Why do citizens re-elect these old and demented people over and over? Because they are stupid and vote for color and party no matter what.
Chill out everyone! Don’t act surprised by this. The dems did the same thing with Joe Biden and are doing the same with Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and a few other octogenarians still hanging around on capitol hill.
And who can forget DIanne Feinstein who literally died in office at age 90? Her brain went on permanent vacation years before she died.
And need I remind everyone that Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is 90 years old? He spends more time asleep than he does awake.
The major fault lies not in these lifetime politicians but in the voters who keep putting them into office.