Four Fascinating Facts:

Dick Lugar, U.S. Senator from Indiana, is running for re-election this year.

It would be his seventh Senate term.

Sen. Lugar just turned 80 years old.  He would be 86 when the term ends.

One of the last moderate Republicans, Sen. Lugar’s idea of moderation was to vote against the repeal of  “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” against the 2009 stimulus, and against health care reform.

Sen. Lugar is probably a nice grandpa.  He should spend more time with his  grandchildren, starting now.  It is time for him to retire.

As you see in these nifty charts I did (using data from Wikipedia), Lugar is just one of the nearly 200 House and Senate members who will have spent 12 or more years in Congress by the time its current session ends.

Twelve years is long enough to do, or not do, whatever it was you promised to get yourself elected.  Twelve & Out.