by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Yesterday antiquarian Mitch McConnell, an 81-year-old US Senator from Kentucky who seems to lack the desire and/or the decency to leave office under his own power, zoned out for a full twenty-five seconds while giving his weekly press briefing. McConnell was led away from the briefing by a fellow Republican senator and reportedly went back to his office to sit-a-spell before ultimately returning and concluding the press conference.
According to a running tally compiled by CNN, this year alone Senator McConnell fell in Helsinki while walking to meet the Finnish President (February 24th): fell at a Washington, DC, hotel where he suffered a concussion and broken ribs - and was off work for six weeks (March 8th); had trouble hearing reporters' questions (June 6th); fell at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, while getting off of a plane in what was described by on-lookers as a "face-plant" (July 14th); and, froze while speaking to reporters (July 26th).
Mitch now uses a wheelchair wherever he is at a busy airport. His age-related impairments are becoming obvious. McConnell has served in the US Senate just shy of forty years, and he is currently the fourth oldest member of that chamber.
Critics are calling for term limits on US Senators and members of Congress, or, if not that, age limits - both of which would be good commonsense measures to insure that our elected representatives stand less chance of being impaired with the infirmities often associated with aging, especially mental infirmities.
It's time to retire, Mitch. Grab that gold watch and head home to fish, or paint, or plant flowers before you do a full-Feinstein and lose total track of where you are at and what you are doing. Go now, and take every other octogenarian hiding out in government with you!
"Seventy-five and out!" has a nice ring to it!
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