retirements

Alan Grayson: Why Democratic Voters Stay Home

Jane Wyatt, formerly of Father Knows Best, as Spock's mother Amanda Grayson in the original Star Trek series. Does this mean Spock and Alan Grayson are future relatives? by Gaius PubliusJust a short piece on the stay-at-home phenomenon among Democratic voters. Many of us have written about it, including myself, as a rejection of the wealth-serving direction of the mainstream of the party.

Harkin: Democrats Were "Forced" By Conservatives To Make Obamacare Less Functional Than It Should Have Been

Tom Harkin decided to retire at age 75. Chuck Grassley, painfully senile will be 83 when he runs in 2016 and wants another 6 year termTom Harkin must feel horrible. The 75 year, 5 term old Iowa populist, first elected to Congress in 1975, is retiring from the U.S. Senate and a polar opposite, crazed teabagger Joni Ernst, is taking his seat.

With Mike Rogers Retiring, The Right Democrat Should Be Able To Win MI-08

Good riddance to corrupt McCarthyite stooge Mike Rogers (left)For whatever reason, Steve Israel has a policy at the DCCC-- Thou Shalt Not Contest Elelections Against Senior Republican Policy Makers. No matter how vulnerable the districts, Israel has not allowed the DCCC to go after any committee chairs last cycle or this cycle.

Easiest Question Of The Day: Why Is Henry Waxman REALLY Retiring?

When Henry Waxman retires next year, he will be 75 years old. He will have served in Congress for 4 decades… 40 years! Even before being elected to Congress he had been a member of the state legislature. The man has served his country for a long time. He has 5 grandchildren. This morning he announced his retirement.

When Should Aging Politicians Retire?

Texas Congressman Ralph Moody Hall was born a few weeks after Warren G. Harding died in office, Vice President Calvin Coolidge had been sworn in and the Republican Teapot Dome bribery scandal was shaking confidence in the Republican Party. He was ten when FDR was first elected and an adult when there was an President in office not named Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Other than John Dingell (age 87), Hall is the last living congressman who fought in World War II. An attorney, he was elected to the Texas state Senate in 1962 and then to Congress in 1980.

More Retirements-- Or Will Some Of Them Be Carried Out Of Congress In Boxes?

That Buck McKeon is finally retiring from Congress is no longer news in the L.A. area and especially not up in Santa Clarita. Everyone already knows he cut a deal with sleazy carpetbagger Tony Strickland and everyone knows that GOP McKeon-haters have drafted the most far right and extreme state Senator in California, bizarre hate-monger Steve Knight.

Is The Tea Party Making Normal Conservatives Quit? Take Jon Runyon (R-NJ)

Run off by some goofballs in tri-corner hats?New Jersey's third congressional district, a swath of the south-central part of the state starting between Toms River and Asbury Park and crossing clear to the Philadelphia suburbs through the Pine Barrens, really is a Democratic congressional district-- despite having a Republican congressman, Jon Runyan.