Sen. Richard Shelby Announces Retirement

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Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) announced Monday that he will retire at the end of his term, leaving his seat open for the 2022 midterms.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1358880
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Forget it, Jake. It’s Alabama…

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Rob Portman, age 65, characterized as a spring chicken in Senate terms. Well, that says a lot about the state of affairs of this so-called deliberative body.

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Let’s hope Stacy can work her magic next door. :wink:

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Seen here making sure Donald Trump is not around.

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Well, where’s Roy Moore? I’m sure they find him or another…

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usual suspects…
Mo Brooks?
Roy Moore?
Jeff Sessions?

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Help is on the way

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I have a 70 year old friend (I am 69) who still hasn’t figured out how to mute and unmute during our zoom meetings. I have been trying to guide some of my other old friends through enrolling for the vaccine. Then I think of these same aged people trying to regulate tech giants and social media monopolies and I conclude

We’re screwed!

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Dick Shelby after 36 years of doing no public good and achieving nothing of note: “I’ve done all the damage I can do here.”

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Trickle now deluge coming.

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Shelby, all biblical with the Ecclesiastes. Maybe now is the time for silence or to speak up?

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak
A time to run out of the senate with your tail between your legs…

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What, he didn’t want to keep hanging out with that drooling moron Tuberville?

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How many more indignities can one man suffer?

Let’s find out.

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Though he isn’t likely running again, Doug Jones will disagree with that.

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A GQP all-points bulletin is out for Roy Boy at all Alabama malls and junior high schools.

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John Merrill and Mo Brooks.

Alabama Republicans have a second safe choice (Shelby’s aide, should she run), but this is the part of the movie, where they again charge towards the killer, because in their heads, ‘why the — not?’

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Good, may he fuck the fuck off and stayed fucked off.

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