Haley: The Senate is the ‘most privileged nursing home in the country’

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Haley: The Senate is the ‘most privileged nursing home in the country’
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GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday called the Senate “the most privileged nursing home in the country.”

In response to a question about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) apparently freezing up on Wednesday while taking questions in Covington, Ky., Haley said on Fox News that the Kentucky senator has “done some great things, and he deserves credit,” but emphasized that “you have to know when to leave.”

““No one should feel good about seeing that any more than we should feel good about seeing Dianne Feinstein, any more than we should feel good about a lot of what’s happening or seeing Joe Biden’s decline,” Haley said. “What I will say is, right now, the Senate is the most privileged nursing home in the country.”

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Damn if she's not right about that.

She is but I can't help but think she has unstated motives for saying it.

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Wait, are you saying that the Democrats have been carefully sidelining, discrediting and shoving the younger members into a dark closet whenever possible? Man, sounds like we should just support the geariatrics then. No way they should get the fuck out of the way and let the popular young elected members of their party actually speak.

Your strawman is well slain. Get back to me when you have familiarized yourself with how Congress works and acquired a basic understanding of committee assignments, and how laws are passed.

Schoolhouse Rock "I'm Just a Bill" is a great place to start. I'm not kidding. Anyone who can reductio ad absurdum what I just said into what you just wrote needs to start at the very beginning.

Love at the end. They tell em "he's a bill" .. He moan's in a high pitch "oh YYYyah"

Gotcha, I'll just vote harder for the people I don't agree with until they magically replace themselves. You owned me so hard. #Clinton2028

Much like the GOP support of states deciding law, they're welcome to set their parties own age limits.

Person trying to boost popularity says popular thing.

Standard GOP tactic

  1. Complain about how bad the government is
  2. Get elected
  3. Make government worse
  4. Back to step 1

Probably. Still, I'm damned sick of the gerontocracy.