Reminder, this guy was dying with cancer, and as his last wish decided to screw the new generations of democrats one last time.
This is the guy the Democrats chose to be on the Oversight Committee over AOC at Pelosi’s urging.
Another example of everything wrong with the Democrat party
Democrats in Congress picked Connolly to serve as the ranking member of the Oversight Committee in December, rejecting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bid to serve as the party’s leader on the powerful panel. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, was one of multiple younger Democrats seeking generational change among the party’s top ranks.
I expect they will find another old white dude to fill the spot before they ever consider Ocasio-Cortez.
A lot has changed since December…
I think if AOC still wants it, she’s got it now.
Pelosi and the rest of the senior elected politicians don’t have the DNC behind them anymore. She was never good at convincing people to see her side, she wielded the DNC like a cudgel and had zero qualms turning it on incumbents who went against her.
She is no longer a member of this committee and switched to a different one after not getting the ranking member seat
And now there’s a seat and a chair that needs replaced…
She can take the seat, then get the chair.
Like, I get what you’re saying, it just doesn’t matter.
We need a competent energetic person who understands today’s media in this position. It’s an incredibly important one. We can play another round of musical chairs, it’s not even much of a hassle.
“Here’s how Bernie could still win”
Ah, that’s good then.
She’s said in the past she’s no longer interested in it. I believe there was already a little back peddling a few weeks and she gave the impression she had moved on.
But she could always change her mind I suppose
Things may have changed outside of Congress, but they haven’t changed enough inside Congress yet. This is a few weeks old but it’s the most recent quote I can find from AOC on this (also, I’m including some stuff before her quote that I think I underscores the problem)
In stepping aside, Connolly has renewed the debate among Democrats of age and experience versus youth and energy in countering President Donald Trump’s agenda. He’s tapped Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., the third-most-senior Democrat on the committee, to serve as the interim ranking member. Younger members like Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Robert Garcia of California have expressed interest in taking over the role — but so has the 70-year-old Lynch.
Tellingly, Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday that she wouldn’t be among those seeking the spot now that Connolly will be stepping down. “It’s actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority as much as I think would be necessary,” she told reporters, saying that she’ll instead “be staying put at Energy and Commerce.”
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/aoc-house-democrats-oversight-committee-connolly-retirement-rcna205195 (arc)
But Beyer said Connolly was a young 74, cancer notwithstanding
Fuckos need to leave office before 70 go fishing or read a book or something
I’m sorry he’s passed and probably left family mourning but this staying in office until the end is not good for anyone
Boy, I really don’t want to be disrespectful, but did I nail it or what?
So, I’m not a doctor, but it sounds like he’s showing early symptoms, he only has a 15% or living more than 5 years, and he’s more likely than not to die within the next year…I’m not trying to be cruel to the guy; cancer sucks and it’s awful he’s going through this. But given how narrow the Republican lead is in the House, it’s irresponsible to have him just stay in Congress at all, since he might miss crucial votes.
Once again, we’re proven right. We’ve been banned, downvoted, censored, but proven right. I think Cassandra syndrome is a good term for our kind.
We were right. Called morons for seeing the truth. It happens. Now if we go “Hey I was right” we’re somehow rude or broken clocks.
Yeah, but if Vegas ever starts taking odds on when these ghouls are gonna drop dead, or which ones are going to sell us out to the crypto industry, I’m gonna make a killing.
it’s irresponsible to have him just stay in Congress at all, since he might miss crucial votes.
That’s the name of the game with boomers. Gotta keep yourself going until you die in office so conservatives can have another win and erase anything you may have accomplished.
Why yes, I am still mad about RBG, why do you ask?
Agreed, bur let’s forget about her, and Dianne Feinstein, and Biden. Let’s ignore everything that happened before the inauguration and pretend we’re starting with a fresh slate. He’s the third House Democrat to drop dead since January. In five months, three Democrats have been assassinated by time.
Oh shit, maybe he’ll run for prez.
75!? That’s no legal in most highways. Like usual
Nobody over 65 should be in a position of power.
Retire and let us fix this shit world already fucking useless boomers.
Rest in piss
At least the dead have proper representation
At least he got “his turn,” and did some good before he died. /s
I don’t like AOC. But she got cooked by Dem leadership to lose the spot for this position for someone clearly too old to be there and who passed away. Once again, fuck cancer. But the elder leadership needs to step aside.
Unserious party.
The eternal battle of fairness and ability, i suppose… But I wanna know what your issues with Ocasio-Cortez are. It’s a rare sort that cops to that in these parts.
I don’t like AOC.
Oh, I hope you don’t mind the question, but why’s that? I like her quite a bit and now I’m curious.
The tirelessly working on a ceasefire thing, and she is an opportunist at times. She is still better than most of her peers. I don’t personal like her, but if it came down to it. I’ll still vote for her over any corpo Dem.
Ah, not what I was expecting but fair enough.
dont worry, he will be replaced by some other geriatric conservative
They refuse to retire and hand power to younger generations, literally dying in office. Fuck boomers.
Well, corporations expect a return on investment. So, they’re literally driving politicians into the ground because they’re a known qantity rather than risking a leftist wave because profit margins.
they know the gop already all on board, and guaranteed a ROI, but dems probably provide a bigger ROI than the gop.
I don’t think it’s simply a matter of holding power.
“I’ve never had my chance to be a ranking member or a chairman of a full committee. This is it.”
It’s this idea of “my turn”.
Connolly put in the time, he played by the rules, it’s his turn. Conceptually I get it. It’s what’s fair.
The problem is, we don’t live in that reality anymore, maybe we never did. We want to move forward. We don’t want to wait for “our turn”. We can’t afford to wait as things fall apart around us. Problems get worse the longer we wait.
Joe Biden had the view of riding out the storm. Trump, MAGA, etc are just a blip, everything will go back to normal. He was absolutely wrong. We have a generation of Democrats who are horribly out of touch with reality.
We have a generation of Democrats who are horribly out of touch with reality.
That Schumer planned a book tour proves that. Someone had to make him aware that people like my buddy and me planned to show up and hassle the shit out of him before canceling.
HEY. Hey. hey. Gerry Connelly probably had some great ideas for government… -40 years ago. They’re probably completely irrelevant according to the needs of today.
In the case of many GenX folks: “our turn” will never arrive. The Boomers refused to fucking retire and make room for us, and younger generations conflate us with Boomers because “old is old”.
Meanwhile we are working our asses off helping our elderly parents navigate an increasingly hostile health system (yay, capitalism) while giving our adult children a place to live or money to survive an increasingly impossibly expensive society. Can’t afford to save for retirement either.
“Hooray”
(fyi - I also think that term limits are the way to go here - finish your terms, then gtfo. None of this waiting around for 20 years for “my turn” and certainly none of that “just wheel the old corpse in and tell her how to vote” bullshit either)
They came into this world, and damn if they aren’t taking it out with them.
