As I write this, I am visiting my home town of Cincinnati, Ohio, not far from the birthplace of incoming Speaker John Boehner. It seems that that Buckeye State native will be leading a relatively youthful Republican caucus compared to the increasingly geriatric gathering of outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In honor of her departure, we will soon be retiring our category “Pelosi Watch.” That San Francisco Democrat’s glory days are behind her and I predict she will end her career in the minority. Seems the new ideas and the younger voices are with the new majority. As Michael Barone reports, building on a piece in the Wall Street Journal:
Curious fact, unearthed by Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal. The average age of Republican House members in the new Congress convening today is 54.9, younger than the Republicans’ average age in the previous Congress, 56.5. But the average age of House Democrats has risen, from 58 to 60.2. That can be explained partly by the high turnover in the 2010 election. Many younger Democrats, first elected in 2006 or 2008, fell by the wayside. The old bulls from 65 percent-plus Democratic districts survived. Meanwhile, many young Republican challengers won.
But the results are historically anomalous. Going back to the Congress elected in 1950, there has never been more than a 2.8-year difference in the average age of House Republicans and House Democrats. The difference in this Congress is 5.3 years, almost double that.
Read the whole thing.
More lame ageism? How old was Reagan when he was prez?
Let’s hope Boehner doesn’t start crying.
Auntie Dogma, as usual you’re missing the point. Since 1994, Republicans put new leaders in Congressional positions, giving Republicans new blood & take the shackles off from established Republican elites from retaining power for power’s sake. On the other hand, Democrats have done no such thing; therefore, the old guard remains as the Democrat Party becomes more stagnant from the political cronyism.
Byron York explains it better from The Washington Examiner:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/01/frosh-fill-back-benches-new-leaders-take-over
I heard a Congressman… I think it was either Steve King or Andy Harris… note that of the 87 new Republicans, something like 30 have never held elected office before. I think this is a good thing. The progressive left may wail (hypocritically) about the right’s fondness for non-professional politicians. But considering the $14 Trillion hole professional politicians have dug for us… bring on the motivated amateurs!
And here’s a photo to warm the heart of anyone who loves freedom.
Let us not forget, “Old age and treachery will always beat youth and skill.”
The Democrats have overabundances of the former.
Odd, Auntie Dogma and the Obama Party were shrieking that John McCain was too old to be President. Normal people would consider their whining about ageism now to be irrational, but it’s typical gay and lesbian Obama supporter behavior.
No wonder Auntie Dogma and the gay and lesbian community are desperate for hiring and employment quotas; gays and lesbians are clearly too irrational and unstable to function in the business world without them.
I understand that Pelosi was in front of the House yesterday, yelling for Republicans to get off her lawn.
How are the republicans treating you guys these days? Lets check in on Rick Scott…http://www.southfloridagaynews.com/news/local-news/2863-new-governor-already-discriminating-against-lgbts-and-other-groups.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+southfloridagaynews+(SouthFloridaGayNews.com)&utm_content=Twitter
Hope none of you live in Florida…
Gee, has it been a decade already? That was the shortest “long, long, decade out of power” ever. Where is the Buckeyecumd**p anyway?
When Weaker Pelosi handed over her gavel, did she levitate in the air? Did her head spin around and spit pea soup?
Just wonderin’.
Regards,
Peter H.
Boehner’s emotional crying is better than Democrats’ ceaseless LYING any day.
And judging from the biggest electoral ass kicking in 75 years, the American people think so too!
I see Dooms is screaming and complaining about “discrimination” because Florida’s new governor did not mandate hiring quotas based on sexual orientation and required that gays and lesbians be judged by character and performance rather than being given preferential treatment.
Poor Dooms. Gays and lesbians like himself are incapable of functioning normally in society. At least Dooms admits that gays and lesbians are inferior and cannot meet the same employment standards as heterosexuals.
What gets really funny is when you look in more detail at what Dooms and his fellow gay-sex liberals are shrieking about.
One such order was to freeze all state action in Florida by mandating that no agency issue any new rules or spend money without his explicit approval.
Now, Dooms and the gay and lesbian community are screaming that this is “homophobic” and “discriminates against gays”. See how pathetically irrational Dooms and the gay and lesbian community have become? They insist that preventing them from spending money or making policies without approval — something that anyone who has ever worked for any sort of boss would tell you is routine — is homophobic.
Dooms and Auntie Dogma seriously believe gays and lesbians should be able to ignore basic workplace rules and policies at will.
Next up:
Another order, EO 11-04, addresses non-discrimination policies to the extent of only race, gender, creed, color and national origin.
Indeed it does, which makes sense due to the fact that those are the categories called out and spelled out in Florida’s Constitution.
But Dooms and the gay and lesbian community scream that this is “homophobic” and constitutes “discrimination”. How do executive orders explicitly stating that you will not discriminate become discriminatory?
Here’s a fact: Every day the Democrats controlled the House, the country went another $3,600,000,000 in debt.
From Doop’s article:
What kind of functional dumbass do you have to be to make an ASSertion like that? A liberal dumbass.
I noticed two fossil class Democrats and one youthful partisan Democrat as I watched the whole CSPAN broadcast today. The two fossils were John Dingell (84) and Barney Frank (70 going on 98); the youthful partisan was Charlie Rangel (80) who cheerfully and genuinely glad handed Boehner. Barney Frank drank a quart of vinegar to arm himself for the ceremony and Dingell does not drink vinegar because it neutralizes his natural bile.
But try as I might, I can not dislike Charlie Rangel as a person. I wish I had him as my devilish uncle. He is sleazy and his politics stink, but his colorful personality is infectious and I believe he would be a true friend, in spite of politics.
Barney Frank and John Dingell really belong in the cemetery plot racket.