But I urge watching as much of the recorded impeachment indictment as you can stomach. The team of House Managers is putting on a virtuoso display of principled legal and ethical competence. After four years of dishonest, blunderbuss government, it's healing.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi deserves credit for selecting this team. Let's hope we are seeing the future Congressional leadership. It's about time for a new generation to take over on the Democratic side; I could be thoroughly happy about some mix of these folks. They've been around long enough to know their way around that quirky institution, navigating within the inevitable diversity of a big tent political party in a huge country. But we don't have to worry they'll keel over.
And hey, can't we just add the Virgin Islands as a state so Stacey Plaskett can be a voting member instead of a non-voting delegate?
Congress is something of a gerontocracy. Lots of senior members, not many younger folks. It's time to replace my generation. Here's a visual representation of the ages of members of the current Congress. Boomers still prevail.
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| As usual, click to enlarge. The source is an interactive graphic that's worth exploring. |
2 comments:
Who are the silent generation?
Good question Bonnie. That would be those who are more than a couple of years older than I am, born before 1945. I think immediately of Bernie, Feinstein, Grassley, Leahy ... Joe Biden is Silent Generation.
I don't enjoy thinking of myself as old, since accepting reality means feeling the closing of possibilities -- but that's the truth. Some of these people need to accept this as well. Wish Feinstein had been willing to bow out gracefully rather than run for her current term.
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