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GOP senators weigh ‘special’ meeting on their leadership after McConnell’s freeze (www.politico.com)

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A handful of GOP senators is weighing whether to force a fraught internal debate about their leadership’s future after Mitch McConnell’s second public freeze-up in a month.

Some rank-and-file Republicans have discussed the possibility of a broader conversation once senators return to Washington next week, according to a person directly involved in the conversations who confirmed them on condition of anonymity. Party leadership is not currently involved in those discussions, and nothing has been decided yet, this person added.

It takes just five Republican senators to force a special conference meeting, which is the most direct way to have a specific discussion about the minority leader after his public pause on Wednesday revived questions about his condition. But the Senate GOP also holds private lunches two or three times a week, giving members another forum for hashing out the direction of the party’s leadership — one that could forestall the need for a special confab.

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[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago

It's not just politicians. That entire generation clings to power and jobs, refusing, either due to ego or that they have trickle down economics'd themselves out of a social safety net and pension.

A huge majority of the leadership positions in major companies are old people. They need to learn to retire and step aside.

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

we're gonna see some changes soon because the people making all of the decisions will all die of old age within a 15 year period

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

They're most likely to be replaced by the hangers-on who have been dutifully agreeing with those people for years and now finally get the job they were hoping to get ages ago. It's not like Nancy Pelosi passing power to her hand-chosen successor yielded a shakeup in the House Democrats.

And Jeffries is still pretty young. In a lot of other cases the young whipper-snapper waiting for their chance once the dinosaur dies is already above retirement age. They'll need to milk that until they die to feel like they got their rightful chance.

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

indeed, but at least there will be some new faces and certain issues like the war on drugs will finally see change that was delayed only because old farts with outdated attitudes are clogging up the government.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That’s honestly not soon enough.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Here's to hoping. I'd like to be able to buy a house some day.

[-] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

The money hoarded by the boomers likely won't be released back into the economy though.. It will move upstream to the rich vultures who bled them dry through end of life care (retirement homes, home aide agencies, funeral industry, etc).

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

time will solve that

[-] bookmeat@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Healthcare is too good now. It's the new normal.

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