While that sounds like a pretty terrible deal for the cockroaches, Kennedy isn’t wrong in his assessment.
Grassley, the 89-year-old Republican senator from Iowa and McConnell, the 81-year-old Republican leader in the US Senate, are remarkably tenacious.
They got jobs in government decades ago and they’ve clung to power ever since.
The Kentucky Republican stopped speaking mid-sentence and, for 23 very awkward seconds, stared silently into the distance.
This was a reference to Joe Biden tripping and falling over a sandbag at an air force graduation last month.
McConnell’s first instinct, having a suffered a moment of vulnerability, was to get a dig at Biden in.
What we have now, however, is a cozy club of multimillionaire boomer lawmakers who have been hoarding power and who refuse to make any space for a younger generation. »