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Given what he thinks of the institution, it’s no wonder Rep. Thomas Davis III, R-Va., decided to retire instead of running for Senate against Mark Warner this year.
At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Wednesday, he said: “The way it works in the Senate is in the first two years, they’re statesmen. The next two years, they’re senators. The final two years, they’re demagogues.”
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Score one for the lower chamber.
It wasn’t Davis’ only zinger of the day. An avid baseball fan, Davis said President Bush “is in a long slump. He’s way past the Mendoza line [jargon for a .200 batting average], and I don’t know if he has enough at bats left to recover.”
On Barack Obama: “I still don’t know what the change he’s going to bring about is. I know it’s ‘change you can believe in.’ ”
On his own party: “Our guys want to be right. … Democrats are smart; they want to win.”
His criticisms notwithstanding, Davis sounds like a guy who’s relishing the idea of retiring from public life. “I feel a great freedom now,” he said. “I’m going to stay involved [but] I’m ready to go out and do something else with my life.”
