Hawaii Democratic Sen. Daniel Akaka will not seek re-election in 2012, the fifth Democratic or Democratic aligned incumbent to bow out already this election cycle.
Way to cut and run, Akaka! At 86, you’re probably the second- or third-youngest person in the entire Congress!
You shouldn’t be allowed to leave the Senate until you’re dead. And you shouldn’t be allowed to die until you’ve spent at least two full terms in the hospital unable to vote on any legislation.
Enjoy actually having a retirement like a real human being, asshole. [WP]
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Wait, we have senators from Hawaii??!? That not even a part of the U.S. America!
I always thought Hawaii was in Kenya.
Exactly. Who can forget the Mau Mau Rebellion, when the residents of Maui ungratefully rose up against their U.K. British masters.
That's MauMaui to you, white Black man.
Does this mean there is yet another octogenerian senator with a black mistress?
Yeah, it's right off the coast there in the Indian Ocean and is routinely molested by Somali pirates.
Time to go home, open your bible and cram for your finals. Feel free to Take McCain with you on the way out.
Where's the birth certificate?
Thank Akaka and his fellow Hawaii Senator for keeping the current Senate from being 100% white.
"You shouldn’t be allowed to leave the Senate until you’re dead. And you shouldn’t be allowed to die until you’ve spent at least two full terms in the hospital unable to vote on any legislation."
Does being brain dead count? Most of the senate would qualify already.
Hate to see these Democratic "Young Guns" bowing out so early in their careers.
Probably quitting to become a lobbyist for the Pineapple-Industrial complex.
Statesmen/Philospher-Kings from HI specialize in bringing home military pork, and have been extremely successful at it!
Ike warned us to watch out for Big Pineapple.
Pretty sure they don't grow pineapple commercially in HI anymore, what with those "American" workers demanding more than $1/hr like they get paid in Central America and whatnot.
I blame the unions, of course.
when we were ruled by Peanut-Industrial complex we got a nice peace treaty for Israel,,,
so bring on the Pineapple-Industrial complex !!
It overlords the undersea housing construction and loan industry, providing overpriced, shoddy housing with balloon mortgages to small sea creatures living in places like Bikini Bottom.
Imagine his frustration, though – 86, and still a "junior". Maybe by retiring his acne will clear up.
This is good news for John McCain! Come on…now he can be the oldest living fossil in the Senate, right?
John McCain is alive? I thought he was some sort of mummy…
Brendan Fraser is on line 1……..
That's good for John McCain. I'm sure he's hoping to pull in some of the Egyptian-American vote with that stunt.
Sounds like impeachment will be on the table in 2013.
Heckuva job, President Obama!
Just remember, you and your Bush's third term Administration spent four years
askingbegging for it. And I'm sure your new best friends forever, Dana Milbank, Matt Bai, etc. will totally have your back. That's what they're known for!~
Huh? What does this have to do with Obama? Did I miss something?
Thank God he's leaving. I have five dogs and a cat and every time I said this crusty old fuck's name I coughed up a hair ball. He's fucking worthless anyway.
Lots of people get their hairballs the old fashioned way. Just sayin'. Licking your cat is so 'new age'.
Show me a man who won't lick a pussy, and I'll have his wife.
Off topic, but now that Kosovan Muslim dude has killed some airmen in Germany, shouldn't we invade and occupy Kosovo?
What?
No, Germany. Real Merikans can actually find it on a map.
Plus they have good beer. From now on, we should just invade countries with good beer or wine.
If that's the case, I move that we invade Scotland, for the delicious single malt stuff.
There's lotsa Germans, and beer, in Wisconsin. Just sayin'.
They're just like Yugoslavia, we were just waiting for them to discover oil.
Did this guy forget that we leveled Belgrade for his people?
Quitter!
I once took a ka ka and I called it George.
(I'm not sure that makes any sense, but I'm at work and I'm transcendentally bored.)
oh snap – this is the very moment hawaii's notorious arch conservatives have been waiting for
He will soon die of a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack.
We oughta know by now.
I seem to remember Selleck as a tennis-playing Reaganite prick; maybe Roger E. Mosley is available?
I hope whomever is running the biggest medical marijuana dispensary in in HI throws his hat in the ring. He should have a war chest that'll stand up to any Republican in the state.
Big relief to Inouye. Akaka always asking, "Are we there yet?' "How much longer?" and "I gotta pee."
what does lou sarah have to say about this quitter?
He's just quitting so he can say yes to appearing on Dancing With the Stars!
fucking quitter
off with his head
He's retiring in order to spend more time with his urologist.
I heard he only became a Senator so he could get lei-d.
He has a new reality show coming out on TLC, Daniel Akaka's Hawaii.
Isn't Hawaii some islands in the Caribbean?
The terrible shame is that he was just getting a handle on the job.
He was happy to keep his snout in the trough, until the cash ran out and it became a piss-trough.
He's just hoping to lock in his retirement benefits while the going is good. By 2013, even the Congress might have to cut their plan…
Surely, this makes him the Sarah Palin of Hawaii, right? Speaking of which, can you imagine how much more chill Sarah would have been if she'd grown up in Hawaii?
Senators come, Senators go…who can explain it?
Makes sense–Daniel Inouye, the senior senator from Hawaii, is 87. And since he survived getting shot to hell during World War II Inouye will probably live forever. Or at least longer than Akaka, the other Daniel.
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