Intervention

Senate Minority Leader, Mitch MCConnell is 81 years old. This past week, during a brief public address, he had a brain freeze—he simply went into a catatonic state and stopped speaking. He was led away from the podium by Senate colleagues, who later claimed it was a big nothing. It. Was. Not. and it's time for him to step down.

Like a number of Democrat politicians, McConnell (R-KY) has reached his expiration date. He is an old man in poor health who suffered from a concussion earlier this year. He should no longer remain in a position to make decisions that could effect the direction of legislation and the future of our country.

For the past three years, we've watched as a cognitively-disabled president exhibits increasing signs of dementia. We've observed a 90-year old Democratic Senator, Diane Feinstein (D-CA), descend into full-blown dementia, and a younger Senator, John Fetterman (D-PA), have trouble speaking in complete sentences. This is not to mention a cadre of 80-plus year olds who roam the halls of the Congress in varying states of mental acuity.

It's long past the time to establish mandatory retirement for all members of Congress and the President and Vice President—say, on their 75th birthday. No exceptions. It also time to establish term limits—say, 3 terms for the senate and 4 terms for the House. There is no reason whatsoever for any elected official to serve for a lifetime. Joe Biden is all the evidence you need to justify that statement.

On the GOP side, McConnell's colleagues should intervene and convince him it's time to leave. If for no other reason than it will accentuate the Democrat's intransigence is not doing the same with Biden or Feinstein or Fetterman. On the Democratic side, Biden, Feinstein and Fetterman's colleagues should do the same, if for no other reason than it will give the Democratic Party a degree of maturity that it sorely needs. I fully understand the political ramifications of this suggestion, but at least once in a while, the people who we elect should at consider doing what is right and in the best interests of the country. I know ... naive.

Will any of this happen—mandatory retirement, term limits or an intervention with cognitively diabled leaders? Not likely. Once the vast majority of politicians in either party tastes power, they (and their staff) will NOT voluntarily give it up.