Congress Feels Like A Florida Denny’s At 4pm

Why politicians refuse to retire.

In the third episode of my new show, “Off Limits with Ian Haworth,” we looked at why Congress is getting older and older, and yet they refuse to retire.

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Last week, Paul Pelosi was the catalyst for our story on insider trading in Congress. When we were researching for that segment, we noticed that Paul Pelosi is 82 years old…and he didn’t cradle-rob his wife of almost 60 years, Nancy Pelosi. 

Because guess what? She’s the same age.

But the real problem here is not that Nancy Pelosi can barely walk, or talk, or be close to children who look “foreign,” but that she’s not unusual. At least, unusual because of her age.

If anything, being able to chew solid food makes you an outcast in our not-so-modern capital.

Let’s start with the obvious: the current President of the United States. Joe Biden is 79 years old. 79 years old! And he acts like it too.

He can’t string a sentence together, he forgets where he is almost constantly, he oscillates between creepy uncle whispers, and crazy uncle screams, he shakes hands with invisible humans, he falls off bicycles, he reads the instructions on the teleprompter, and he can’t even dress himself.

And he says he wants to run again in 2024, which means he’ll be campaigning when he’s almost 82.

A few years ago, Barack Obama reportedly said “don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” And that’s when Joe was conscious.

Meanwhile, if he runs again in 2024, Donald Trump will be 78 years old. Hillary Clinton? She’ll be 77 years old when the 2024 election comes round.

How did we let the government become completely overrun by geriatrics?

In 1981, the average age in the House was 49 years old, and 53 in the Senate. Now, the average age in the House is 60 years old, and in the Senate, the average age is almost 65 years old.

In the House of Representatives, 88 members of the house are 70 or older, and fifteen are 80 or older. 

As well as Nancy Pelosi, the beyond-golden years club also includes her number two, Steney Hoyer, and Maxine Waters, who heads up the financial services committee. They’re both 83 years old. Jim Clyburn, the majority whip, is 82.

In the Senate, 34 Senators are 70 or older. Seven are 80 or older.

Bernie Sanders is 80 — another potential Democratic Party candidate for president in 2024 when he’ll be 83. Patrick Leahy is 82, while Richard Shelby and Chuck Grassley are both 88. And then there’s California’s Dianne Feinstein coming in at a whopping 89 years old.

She also literally has dementia and no one is doing anything about it.