Let me guess, Granger continued to collect her paycheck while "missing."
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My question is "How did they tell she was demented?"
We need a maximum age for politicians. At all levels. And term limits. At all levels.
And a god damn attendance record.
My kid's school told me flat out that if a kid misses too many school days, they will be left behind.
So these "politicians" get paid and don't even have to show up?
Weirder still the ones that do show up tend to cast votes of absentees with sticks they proudly carry around for just that age or somehow both accepted and legal.
Okay. Make it happen then.
this is why health reporting requirements should be made publicly available prior to election, imo
Hmm I see. Her generation continues to be an utter fucking embarrassment when it comes to politics.
Who's been doing her job since then? There is no way that can be legal. I'd bet the farm the same thing is happening to Mitch McConnell. No way that old bag of dust and bones is competent enough to do his job.
Kind of crazy how I get fired if I miss one day of work but senators can just not show up for weeks
The interns have been accepting all the bribes and spending it on beer.
Don't tell mom ~~the babysitter's dead~~ the Congresswoman's senile
I’d watch this movie
We already are
I don’t wanna live it … just watch it
Heyheyhey! In America we call those "bribes" free speech for corporations. Bribes are illegal.
As a rep, her only job is to vote. She hires staff to carry out other responsibilities.
If only more GQP congresspersons were like her.
Some presidential candidates ripen before the election. Its natural.
This seems like a pretty important job to not just shuffle the person doing it into an old folks home! Like come on!
Literally a limited number per state. Even an midmanager would get called for running out of PTO way before then.
How the fuck does a Senator go missing for SIXTH FUCKING MONTHS and no one bothers looking for them.
Her aids were probably running the show for years. What happens with these congress critters is that they create a support network around themselves to do the real work while they campaign for the next election. It gets to the point that the congress member themselves becomes superfluous. If it goes on long enough, they fall into dementia, but the aids don't want to start over again with someone new, so they just tote their boss around from time to time like Weekend at Burnie's. It happened with Dianne Feinstein. It's probably happening with Mitch McConnell.
Also with Biden
Also with Trump, Regan... the list goes on.
Now that the election(and America) is over, I'm willing to openly agree with Biden being in mentally not there. Gerontocracy always lead to a decline in a nation.
If it's acceptable to have a minimum age to vote or hold office, it should also be acceptable to have a maximum age. Retired senior citizens shouldn't get to decide matters such as worker's rights or environmental issues.
I agree completely
People from her office absolutely knew where she was, they just didn't bother telling anybody else.
Is this what they mean by Reaganism?
Why not have a cut off age?
Asking people with power to give up that power willingly almost never works, unfortunately.
That would put everyone voting for it out of a job.
sounds like she's clearly just getting in touch with the local population
To be fair, dementia is not much of a hindrance for making GOP policies.
Texas GOP sees this as an absolute win