Idrees Kahloon

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What A Day · Mitch McConnell and Our Very Old Congress · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

The phrase that Congress is the world's best nursing home, I think sadly has more and more evidence with every passing year.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I mean, clearly, if they had evidence that he was doing well and actually participating in lengthy conversations about matters of state, I think that they would have released that information.

So my assumption, based on the fact that there's no information that's coming out, is that things are not going so well.

And it's generally not a good sign when you hear nothing about a politician, particularly after we have a report that they've been in cardiac arrest, which is what's happened with McConnell.

It's incredibly common, incredibly bipartisan.

Maybe the one bipartisan thing that we have left, you know, Dianne Feinstein was allowed to remain in Congress for a while when it became clear for months that she was unable to really perform her duties.

Eleanor Holmes Norton has, you know, also receded.

As well, there was a congressman, a congresswoman, I believe, who was checked into a memory care facility while also simultaneously serving in Congress.

So this is incredibly common.

The phrase that Congress is the world's best nursing home, I think, sadly, has more and more evidence with every passing year.

There were people like Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd who got close to 100 in the Senate.

But my sense is like yours, that it was not quite as common.

I think if you plot just the average age of the US Senate over time, you see that it's gotten older and older.

um, as well.

And, you know, the fact that we've made strides in cancer treatment, healthcare, et cetera, means that, you know, the thing that's, that we haven't made as many strides on are dementia, Alzheimer's, these kinds of things.

And so, you know, we have, we have this kind of perverse system where, um, politically there are great incentives to remain in Congress.

You get more seniority, you get better, you know, committee placements and it's great.

You get a staff, um, all of these kinds of things.

And incumbency is, is such a great advantage in terms of your ability to get reelected.

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