Friday, January 7, 2011

Living Fossils

Democrats like to cast themselves as the party of the young and restless. Check the CVs of Democrat leadership, though, and a different picture emerges. Michael Barone has an interesting piece on this phenomena when he examines the age of Democratic pols in high level leadership positions:

"The ages of the ranking Democrats on the Appropriations, Ways and Means, Education, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Foreign Affairs and Judiciary committees are 70, 79, 65, 71, 70, 69 and 81. The three party leaders are 70, 71 and 70."

He continues by looking at California, probably the bluest of blue states:

"You get a similar picture when you look at leading politicians in the nation's largest and one of its most Democratic states, California. Jerry Brown, elected governor at 36 and 40, has now won that office again at 72. The state's two U.S. senators are 77 and 70. They began their political careers, as did the leading House Democrats, way back in the 1960s or 1970s."

It's true that you can't teach an old dog new tricks, and the wasted trillions squandered by the Dems with no substantial change for the better these last few years is massive proof of this proposition.  It's time for more new dogs in Congress and in state capitols with an "R" next to their names to get this country moving again!


townhall.com/columnists/MichaelBarone/2011/01/06/wily_old_dems_take_on_whippersnapper_republicans

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