Reminder, this guy was dying with cancer, and as his last wish decided to screw the new generations of democrats one last time.
This is the guy the Democrats chose to be on the Oversight Committee over AOC at Pelosi’s urging.
Nobody over 65 should be in a position of power.
Retire and let us fix this shit world already fucking useless boomers.
Rest in piss
75!? That’s no legal in most highways. Like usual
At least the dead have proper representation
Fuckos need to leave office before 70 go fishing or read a book or something
I’m sorry he’s passed and probably left family mourning but this staying in office until the end is not good for anyone
They refuse to retire and hand power to younger generations, literally dying in office. Fuck boomers.
Well, corporations expect a return on investment. So, they’re literally driving politicians into the ground because they’re a known qantity rather than risking a leftist wave because profit margins.
they know the gop already all on board, and guaranteed a ROI, but dems probably provide a bigger ROI than the gop.
I don’t think it’s simply a matter of holding power.
“I’ve never had my chance to be a ranking member or a chairman of a full committee. This is it.”
It’s this idea of “my turn”.
Connolly put in the time, he played by the rules, it’s his turn. Conceptually I get it. It’s what’s fair.
The problem is, we don’t live in that reality anymore, maybe we never did. We want to move forward. We don’t want to wait for “our turn”. We can’t afford to wait as things fall apart around us. Problems get worse the longer we wait.
Joe Biden had the view of riding out the storm. Trump, MAGA, etc are just a blip, everything will go back to normal. He was absolutely wrong. We have a generation of Democrats who are horribly out of touch with reality.
In the case of many GenX folks: “our turn” will never arrive. The Boomers refused to fucking retire and make room for us, and younger generations conflate us with Boomers because “old is old”.
Meanwhile we are working our asses off helping our elderly parents navigate an increasingly hostile health system (yay, capitalism) while giving our adult children a place to live or money to survive an increasingly impossibly expensive society. Can’t afford to save for retirement either.
“Hooray”
(fyi - I also think that term limits are the way to go here - finish your terms, then gtfo. None of this waiting around for 20 years for “my turn” and certainly none of that “just wheel the old corpse in and tell her how to vote” bullshit either)
HEY. Hey. hey. Gerry Connelly probably had some great ideas for government… -40 years ago. They’re probably completely irrelevant according to the needs of today.
We have a generation of Democrats who are horribly out of touch with reality.
That Schumer planned a book tour proves that. Someone had to make him aware that people like my buddy and me planned to show up and hassle the shit out of him before canceling.
They came into this world, and damn if they aren’t taking it out with them.
Democrats in Congress picked Connolly to serve as the ranking member of the Oversight Committee in December, rejecting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid to serve as the party’s leader on the powerful panel. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, was one of multiple younger Democrats seeking generational change among the party’s top ranks.
I expect they will find another old white dude to fill the spot before they ever consider Ocasio-Cortez.
A lot has changed since December…
I think if AOC still wants it, she’s got it now.
Pelosi and the rest of the senior elected politicians don’t have the DNC behind them anymore. She was never good at convincing people to see her side, she wielded the DNC like a cudgel and had zero qualms turning it on incumbents who went against her.
She is no longer a member of this committee and switched to a different one after not getting the ranking member seat
And now there’s a seat and a chair that needs replaced…
She can take the seat, then get the chair.
Like, I get what you’re saying, it just doesn’t matter.
We need a competent energetic person who understands today’s media in this position. It’s an incredibly important one. We can play another round of musical chairs, it’s not even much of a hassle.
“Here’s how Bernie could still win”
She’s said in the past she’s no longer interested in it. I believe there was already a little back peddling a few weeks and she gave the impression she had moved on.
But she could always change her mind I suppose
Ah, that’s good then.
Things may have changed outside of Congress, but they haven’t changed enough inside Congress yet. This is a few weeks old but it’s the most recent quote I can find from AOC on this (also, I’m including some stuff before her quote that I think I underscores the problem)
In stepping aside, Connolly has renewed the debate among Democrats of age and experience versus youth and energy in countering President Donald Trump’s agenda. He’s tapped Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., the third-most-senior Democrat on the committee, to serve as the interim ranking member. Younger members like Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Robert Garcia of California have expressed interest in taking over the role — but so has the 70-year-old Lynch.
Tellingly, Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday that she wouldn’t be among those seeking the spot now that Connolly will be stepping down. “It’s actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority as much as I think would be necessary,” she told reporters, saying that she’ll instead “be staying put at Energy and Commerce.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/aoc-house-democrats-oversight-committee-connolly-retirement-rcna205195 (arc)
Boy, I really don’t want to be disrespectful, but did I nail it or what?
So, I’m not a doctor, but it sounds like he’s showing early symptoms, he only has a 15% or living more than 5 years, and he’s more likely than not to die within the next year…I’m not trying to be cruel to the guy; cancer sucks and it’s awful he’s going through this. But given how narrow the Republican lead is in the House, it’s irresponsible to have him just stay in Congress at all, since he might miss crucial votes.
Once again, we’re proven right. We’ve been banned, downvoted, censored, but proven right. I think Cassandra syndrome is a good term for our kind.
We were right. Called morons for seeing the truth. It happens. Now if we go “Hey I was right” we’re somehow rude or broken clocks.
Yeah, but if Vegas ever starts taking odds on when these ghouls are gonna drop dead, or which ones are going to sell us out to the crypto industry, I’m gonna make a killing.
it’s irresponsible to have him just stay in Congress at all, since he might miss crucial votes.
That’s the name of the game with boomers. Gotta keep yourself going until you die in office so conservatives can have another win and erase anything you may have accomplished.
Why yes, I am still mad about RBG, why do you ask?
Agreed, bur let’s forget about her, and Dianne Feinstein, and Biden. Let’s ignore everything that happened before the inauguration and pretend we’re starting with a fresh slate. He’s the third House Democrat to drop dead since January. In five months, three Democrats have been assassinated by time.
Sad news for his family.
I do wonder though about these people that hang on to power all the way up until death. Is that fulfilling?
What was the point of all that amassing of influence and power, just to spend the last few months of your precious finite time on earth sitting in a little office arguing with people.
I wonder if there is an afterlife how many of those that held onto power with an iron grip up until death look back and go “I wish I had spent more time with my family. I wish I had used some of that wealth and power to enjoy the fruits of life. I can’t believe the last heathy months of my life were wasted doing these things that in retrospect seem so unimportant.”
There is this group of old billionaires and politicians that are bound and determined to run up the high score as high as possible and for what? Billions of dollars and still heading into the office day in and day out stressing about the next product launch? Why live your life like that?
Isn’t the point that you can get out of the rat race at some point, not just become the fastest rat?
feinstein was wheelbound, probably out of her mind when she died, she already had a epsiode of varicella zoster encephalitis, shingles which presented as a severe form progressed to encephalitis/meningitis, i think she died from those complications.
mitch mcconnel was originally going to stay in the senate til he died, im guessing trump accelerated his departure.
Not only that, but politicians are very concerned about their legacies, how they will be remembered. And politicians who hold on until the end do not get to manage an important part of their legacies: how they are replaced.
RBG is the prime example of this. If she had retired while Obama could have appointed her successor, she could have seen someone sane carry her seat forward in her last years. Instead, she died knowing that her replacement would probably seek to undo much of what she did.
If this congressman had not run again in 2024, he could have directly endorsed his successor and made sure his constituents were adequately represented throughout. Now Democrats are down a seat until the election to replace him, and his constituents will have to go through someone else if they need help out of Congress.
she was banking on hillary to win, and then when mitch became SENATE majority, he blocked all of obamas appointments.
Not only that, but politicians are very concerned about their legacies, how they will be remembered
Which is why we need to start being honest even if it’s not polite
Fuck Gerry Connelly. He spent his last years working against his own party and causing harm to the American people.
If he’d have spent the last decade in retirement, sure, we can limit it formalities. But up until the day he died he obstructed justice by taking an important political seat so that he could block someone else from doing the job.
Mike Donnelly would have gotten more done than Gerry did.
i’m convinced that the reason why we’re forced to run this rat race is because too many believe that we have to when we see the faster rats getting the things that we want.
connolly litterally gave his life supporting the status quo and was “rewarded” for it while the person who tried to buck the status quo was left out in the cold for it.
Back in December…
That happened because Pelosi had the backing of the DNC and elected Dems knew the neoliberals wouldn’t hesitate to torpedo an incumbent that went against them even if it meant a Republican got the seat.
She doesn’t have that anymore, and all her threats are toothless. For her whole career she’s never been effective at convincing people to see a different viewpoint to change a vote, she’s just threatened her own party members.
With the “victory fund” they had financial control over a lot of states too, they could shut the tap off to your whole state, or making funds dependent on your state hanging you specifically out to dry.
Like, I think people dont appreciate how much got fixed in the last couple months, because they don’t understand how bad shit really was
dont worry, he will be replaced by some other geriatric conservative
Another example of everything wrong with the Democrat party
Oh shit, maybe he’ll run for prez.
But Beyer said Connolly was a young 74, cancer notwithstanding
At least he got “his turn,” and did some good before he died. /s
