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.”
LOL, no. Someone forgot Jesse Helms. He stayed for decades because eastern NC actively voted for him every single term, and he ran his office like every election was his first. His positions were laughable and often horrid, like quarantining gays in the AIDS years, but he took care of the NC farmers, he had a massive constituents services staff, his office was open to his people, they knew Helms would help even the least of them if they asked, and in return they kept him there for as long as they could, long past the point of ridiculousness. Same with Strom Thurmond. They didn’t care he was old, they cared that he helped them, and he did.
Dianne Feinstein was a force to be reckoned with before she became senile as well. But if you’re a California voter, what do you get in place of a very powerful, long-term senator with many top committee assignments and the pull to pass whatever she wants, when you DO decide to vote her out? You get a freshman, and all that accrued power and influence for California in the Senate now goes to someone in another state.
You’re 100% right about that.