A handful of GOP senators is weighing whether to force a fraught internal debate about their leadership’s future after Mitch McConnell’s second public freeze-up in a month.

Some rank-and-file Republicans have discussed the possibility of a broader conversation once senators return to Washington next week, according to a person directly involved in the conversations who confirmed them on condition of anonymity. Party leadership is not currently involved in those discussions, and nothing has been decided yet, this person added.

It takes just five Republican senators to force a special conference meeting, which is the most direct way to have a specific discussion about the minority leader after his public pause on Wednesday revived questions about his condition. But the Senate GOP also holds private lunches two or three times a week, giving members another forum for hashing out the direction of the party’s leadership — one that could forestall the need for a special confab.

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    Tell me about it:

    George HW Bush born 1924

    Bill Clinton born 1946

    George W Bush born 1946

    Barack Obama born 1961

    Donald Trump born 1946

    Joe Biden born 1942

    Time keeps progressing and politicians keep just getting fucking older.

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      It’s not just politicians. That entire generation clings to power and jobs, refusing, either due to ego or that they have trickle down economics’d themselves out of a social safety net and pension.

      A huge majority of the leadership positions in major companies are old people. They need to learn to retire and step aside.

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        we’re gonna see some changes soon because the people making all of the decisions will all die of old age within a 15 year period

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          They’re most likely to be replaced by the hangers-on who have been dutifully agreeing with those people for years and now finally get the job they were hoping to get ages ago. It’s not like Nancy Pelosi passing power to her hand-chosen successor yielded a shakeup in the House Democrats.

          And Jeffries is still pretty young. In a lot of other cases the young whipper-snapper waiting for their chance once the dinosaur dies is already above retirement age. They’ll need to milk that until they die to feel like they got their rightful chance.

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            indeed, but at least there will be some new faces and certain issues like the war on drugs will finally see change that was delayed only because old farts with outdated attitudes are clogging up the government.

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            The money hoarded by the boomers likely won’t be released back into the economy though… It will move upstream to the rich vultures who bled them dry through end of life care (retirement homes, home aide agencies, funeral industry, etc).

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      It’s pretty simple really. First you must want to work in public service. Next, you run for office after getting backing from your fellow citizens. Campaign where your voters are. Win an election. Remember not to go farther than your experience can take you. Ŕveryone you listed won a (sometimes two) nation wide race.

      You are young, but no younger than 35, and you think you can do that? Bon chance.

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        Trump did not. W only did once, and only because people idiotically vote for the incumbent whenever they feel threatened. The fact that we have a braindead system that lets you become president after losing a nationwide election doesn’t change the fact that they lost.

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          People vote for a candidate for many different reasons. Sometimes it’s party affiliations, sometimes its a single issue,

          Everyone on that list except for HW Bush, Trump and Biden (as of right now) served two terms

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      Not sure why Obama is on here. He was only 47 at the start of his presidency and hasn’t held any office for a while.