Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter and then took off to Africa for a few days, likely hoping that he could duck questions about the pardon.
He hasn’t quieted the controversy. He’s even being mocked by Jon Stewart and called out by folks like MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. The effort to defend him by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was pitifully bad. She tripped all over herself as she tried to justify it.
When Biden was asked about it in Angola, his response was bizarre. He said, “Welcome to America.”
Then he made weird comments about Biden’s being like “poor relatives.”
Yes, you’ve stayed much longer than you should, and we want you to go home now. Jan. 20 can’t come soon enough.
Then, in a truly embarrassing moment, he had to be led around like a child by Angola’s president in a concerning manner.
We Bidens are like poor relatives. We show up when we’re invited, we stay longer when we should, eat all your food, and don’t know when to go.
This could be said about many of the career / aging politicians in congress right now.
Most people look forward to retiring at 65 or 67 . And than maybe picking up a little part time gig just to keep busy and have a little extra cash coming in.
Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee told Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig that a chief problem with Congress was that members focused on their future careers as lobbyists after serving – that Congress was a “Farm League for K Street”.[188][189] Family members of active legislators have also been hired by lobbying firms, which while not allowed to lobby their family member, has drawn criticism as a conflict of interest.[190]
I am all for term limits and maybe even look at mandatory retirement age for members of congress and supreme court.
In January 2014, it was reported that for the first time over half of the members of Congress were millionaires.
One 2011 study concluded that portfolios of members of congress outperformed both the market and hedge funds, which the authors suggested as evidence of insider trading.