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.”
She’s not wrong, she’s just an asshole
How so?
Well what do you know? I agree with Nikki Haley on something.
She ain’t wrong (huuuge edit: ON THIS SUBJECT QUOTE)
The average age IS pretty fucking high. Fresh blood would be good, methinks. Most of these codgers are career politicians who’ve just cling to their positions for decades
I agree with you and her as far as health care but I doubt McConnell and Feinstein are actually enjoying their golden years. You’d expect a nursing home to help with that part.
Oh well I don’t feel sorry for them as they are power addicted idiots.
They look miserable. But I don’t know if Feinstein is power addicted at this point and not just entirely confused and pupeteered by other people. I wonder what she would answer if you asked her how old she is right now.
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.
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
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“Absolutely devastating, the worse person you know just made a great point.”
She’s terrible, but she doesn’t crack the top 100 worst American politicians. Her point is accurate, though.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Joe Biden’s decline? Look, I don’t like having great-grandpa in the Whitehouse or Senate or Supreme Court, and I think we should have an age limit, but there’s no need to invent a “decline” to make a point.
And she wants to be head retiree.
The horrible evil lady is right! Let’s not do what she says otherwise.
100%. We need age and term limits for all elected offices.
We don’t want a Senate with 60 Ted Cruz’s. I agree with the other guy. Money reform first. Then we can consider age and term limits.
Abolishing the senate is the right reform for the senate.
This is the Way.
You say that out loud tho and people think you’re Hitler. There is nothing undemocratic about advocating the abolition of an undemocratic institution.
Considering who is in control of the house, I can’t help but think this is a bad idea.
If there is the will to abolish the Senate, then there will be a will to change how the House is elected and how many members it has.
Unless Republicans get overwhelming power in the house due to gerrymandering and then do it.
Clearly would remove districts from the system. Proportional elections are the only viable way to produce a legislature.
You’re presenting problems to abolishing the Senate that simply won’t exist because it’s a MUCH bigger undertaking than you’re presenting.
Republicans won’t be doing anything in that scenario because the fascists would literally revolt (while bankrolled by the rich) before they allow the Senate to be abolished.
I guess the question is: what problem are you trying to solve by instituting age limits and term limits?
If the issue is the advantage of incumbency and having entrenched politicians with large campaign funding operations behind them, then maybe a better way of solving this would be campaign finance reform that prevents private dollar donations from non-individuals and heavy restrictions on how much an individual can contribute.
All that term limits and age limits in Congress would achieve is setting an artificial barrier for those who do the job well while setting up a new group of people to benefit from the legislature’s dysfunction.
Of course, attacking McConnell’s health was part of the game plan. She’s not wrong though.
Who cares what this monster says? Yall want federal abortion bans, lgbt bans, more environmental damage and worse access to medicare?
Nikki actually doesn’t want federal abortion bans. She has advocated for a state’s only approach.
she’s a scum bag.
Whelp in the first debate she said she would not sign a federal abortion ban and leave it to the states
Wow that huge bigot finally said something good. Let’s see where she is at 80.
This is due to the rules of the Senate which state that committee seniority is given to the longest serving members. Both sides keep people in office as long as possible to secure these important positions.
Haley said on Fox News that the Kentucky senator has “done some great things, and he deserves credit,”
Examples?
For one, he destroyed the legitimacy of the federal judiciary & supreme court. Which is terrible, but great. Like Voldemort.
Republicans consider damage to the country a great thing.
