I do not mean any disrespect to our elders, but we must end the Perpetual Gerontocracy in the Senate.

And Mitch McConnell has to be the first to go.

McConnell says he merely "felt light-headed" and is all better now.

Sure.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that he's "fine," after freezing during a news conference on Wednesday.

McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, stopped speaking in the middle of remarks at his regularly scheduled weekly news conference on Capitol Hill. After a 30-second pause, his colleagues crowded around to see if he was OK and asked him how he felt. GOP Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming was seen gripping McConnell's arm and whispered to him, "Hey Mitch, anything else you want to say? Or should we just go back to your office? Do you want to say anything else to the press?"

He said nothing, and was led away from the press conference and towards his office by an aide. He returned to the news conference a few minutes later.

McConnell, asked by CNN what happened and if it is related to his fall earlier this year, said "No, I'm fine," and then moved on to other reporters.

A McConnell aide said that the senator "felt light headed and stepped away for a moment."

That's from CNN.

Nice of them to notice an elderly politician is having neurological problems and might not be fit for the job.

Wonder when they'll notice Joe Biden's dementia.

Incidentally, Kentucky has a Democrat governor. So if Mitch McConnell dies or has to resign, the Democrat appoints his replacement.

The legislature anticipated this and passed a law over the governor's veto that he could only pick a replacement from a list of candidates submitted by the (Republican) legislature, but Bashear says that's unconstitutional and will ignore it.

This could have been avoided if McConnell had retired last time. Or the time before that.

But they never do. They cling to power like dehydrated ticks. It's only the power that sustains these husks.