How can we miss her when she received’t go away?
No shock that the faux Indian is planning to run for one more six-year time period within the US Senate subsequent 12 months, when she’ll be 75 years outdated, and does something severely consider that shall be her swan tune?
You know, I get that Liewatha doesn’t need to retire. As the late Florida State soccer coach Bobby Bowden used to say, “Ain’t but one major event left after you retire.”
That one main occasion can be a visit to the Happy Hunting Grounds, as Fauxchahontas’ ancestors, er, non-ancestors, used to say, a minimum of within the Republic Pictures B-movie westerns.
But when did careers in Congress change into peerages – lifetime appointments, with titles?
When Harry S Truman left the presidency in 1953, he drove his personal automotive again to Independence MO. Few politicians stayed in Washington after retirement or defeat. Maybe it was the dearth of air con.
Then the Congressmen realized that post-retirement, they might make much more dough as lobbyists or affect peddlers or no matter. So they remained in DC till they both died or had been imprisoned (like ex-Speaker Dennis Hastert).
Then they collectively found out that they might simply stay in workplace till they died, once more, only a duke or earl within the House of Lords. Think Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Frank Lautenberg.
Now, even after they’re incapacitated, they continue to be in workplace. Resignations are now not an possibility. They simply transfer into hospitals, like Sens. Dianne Feinstein, age 89, and John Fetterman, who at age 53 hasn’t been seen publicly since he checked into Walter Reed Hospital 5 weeks in the past.
It’s not simply the White House that has been transformed into an assisted-living facility or hospice.
The “junior” senator from Massachusetts is Ed Markey, who shall be 77 in July. He’s already introduced his plans to run for one more time period in 2026, at age 80.
What. Else. Would. He. Do?
To put it in fake-Indian phrases, Markey has been in Congress for a lot of, many moons – earlier than Iron Horse, since there have been extra buffalo on the plains than stars within the sky. I bear in mind his first run for the Senate – in 1984.
He needed to drop out as a result of he knew if he misplaced his House seat, he would have probably both starved to loss of life or ended up panhandling exterior the Pine Street Inn. When he stop the Senate combat, I requested him at my TV station to autograph one among his Senate brochures for me as a memento.
He scrawled, “I wish I could have two jobs like you, Howie.”
Meaning that even when he misplaced, he wouldn’t must do one thing unthinkable – like go to work.
But he’s nearly 80 now. How a lot cash does he want?
Same query for Cong. Richie Neal, age 74. And much more so, Rep. Bill Keating. He’s 70, he’ll get an enormous federal kiss within the mail. And for greater than 12 years, he’s additionally been pocketing a state pension that has risen to $115,099 a 12 months.
Then there’s Rep. Steve Lynch – he turned 68 yesterday. He bought confused not too long ago at a listening to and known as a witness named Shellenberger “Shellenbeck.”
As one commenter famous, “I went by a dry cleaner yesterday and saw an empty suit. I thought of Steve Lynch.”
Going again to the theme of faux Indians, these historical House Hibernians are the native political variations of the Last of the Mohicans – white Irish-Catholic heterosexual males who had been born right here. Talk about unelectable in modern-day Massachusetts.
They aren’t any extra of them developing, that’s for positive. We used to explain these would-be dynasties – the Markeys, the O’Neills, the Creedons, even the Multiple-Choice Joyces – as Okay-Mart Kennedys.
Now even Kennedys can’t get elected in Massachusetts. Just ask younger JoJoJo, crushed by Markey. JoJoJo was born in Brighton. Total deal-breaker in a Democrat major.
As for the dinosaurs nonetheless clinging to their seats in Congress, you couldn’t pry ‘em out with the Jaws of Life. They’re all obsessive about not being “Capuano’ed” – defeated by some woke blow-in who checks all of the bins, like Rep. Ayanna Pressley again in 2018.
Pressley, native of Chicago like Mayor Wu, received’t tackle the faux Indian, a local of Oklahoma. Business is simply too good within the racket that Tom Wolfe used to name “steam control.” And a run for greater workplace may imply extra scrutiny, which is rarely a superb factor within the steam management business.
As for the faux Indian, in fact she’d prefer to run for president, however c’mon. She had her likelihood in 2020, when she completed third within the Massachusetts major.
She’s most likely the least fashionable statewide politician in Massachusetts. Sure, she received a landslide reelection in 2018, however if you’re operating towards Geoff “DoorDash” Diehl, even a drunkard like state Sen. Michael Brady might win overwhelmingly, again in 2015.
As time goes by, even her fake-Indian scandal recedes into the previous, particularly since a brand new Pretendian is busted nearly weekly. Johnny Depp, a dean at Dartmouth, Canada’s prime “indigenous health expert,” after which over the weekend a Hollywood producer with, you guessed it, excessive cheekbones.
It’s nearly change into a cottage business, the racial fraudulence that Elizabeth Warren pioneered. This newest flim-flammer, Heather Rae, was apparently planning on passing her grift all the way down to the subsequent era. Her daughter had change into an actress underneath the identify of “Johnny Sequoyah.”
Now that her mother Heather Rae has been busted, perhaps “Sequoyah” can return to utilizing her household’s actual surname – Friedenberg.
The faux Indian won’t ever be president, however being a US senator isn’t such a foul comfort prize. Big cash, little accountability, even much less accountability. The solely factor she should fear about is that one among her crackpot proposals may really change into legislation. Bailouts – for scholar loans! For the FDIC! How ‘bout a “wealth tax?”
It’s enjoyable to carry hearings, not so good if any individual really follows via on any of your unconstitutional lunatic schemes. Down that street lies the Consumer Finance Protection Board… and catastrophe.
But hey, Diane Feinstein is 89. Robert Byrd made it to 92, Strom Thurmond to 100. Fake Indian can final many, many moons, perhaps even so long as Great White Father Ed Markey.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”