KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Add Mitch McConnell to List of Beltway Elders Who Shouldn’t Be at Work. “A number of this nation’s highest-ranking leaders are a smidge past their primes. Worse yet, almost none of the elders of the village are aging well. We live in amazing times, when humans can live longer quality lives than we have ever been able to before. It would not appear, however, that our political elites have been doing the things they need to do in order to be as robust as possible in their 80s.”