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Sen. "Leaky" Leahy to retire in 2022

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Posted by Frank G 2021-11-15 10:49|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Good riddence

Posted by DarthVader 2021-11-15 11:13|| 2021-11-15 11:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Old guard Democrats are going to bow out before the primaries. I believe they will let AOC and the socialists take over the party in time for the 2024 red wave. Hopefully that will be seen as a total repudiation of socialism in America.

Posted by ruprecht 2021-11-15 11:32|| 2021-11-15 11:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Echoing DarthVader: "Good! Riddance!" *Spit!*

Posted by magpie 2021-11-15 11:53|| 2021-11-15 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Our political class has more geriatrics than the Politburo in the days of Brezhnev and Chernenko

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 11:53|| 2021-11-15 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 This guy was first elected to the Senate in 1974; I was in fifth grade when that happened. I wonder who they got lined up to replace him in the primaries?

Posted by Raj 2021-11-15 12:22|| 2021-11-15 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Once one of the nastiest, hyperpartisan asshats in elected office. Now hardly a blip on the radar. Progress!

Posted by Grailet Speang1824 2021-11-15 12:29|| 2021-11-15 12:29|| Front Page Top

#7 the Democrat most likely to seek the Senate seat is the US Representative for Vermont Peter Welsh who has been in politics for almost as long as Leahy and is in his mid 70s

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-11-15 13:24|| 2021-11-15 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ spring chicken compared to our Sunshine Boys

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-15 13:55|| 2021-11-15 13:55|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't think our Founders really meant 'elder' statesman would include those who in their time would have been physically dead for twenty years.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-15 15:32|| 2021-11-15 15:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Will be missed mostly by WaPo and NYT writers, who will soon have to rely on the FBI for their leaks.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-11-15 17:53|| 2021-11-15 17:53|| Front Page Top

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