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Home Front: Politix
WSJ Columnist Notices Something Interesting About the Dem Plot to Boot Feinstein
2023-04-16
[TOWNHALL] The lust for power can blind some to the point where their flanks are exposed to attack. In this case, Democrats have placed Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
 in the crosshairs by attacking Sen. Dianne Feinstein
...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator....
’s (D-CA). The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat who has served since 1992 is pushing 90 years of age. Her mental abilities have regressed mightily, one of the worst-kept secrets in this town. Feinstein’s exceptional staff has kept her office from going off the rails, but progressive members want her gone since she’s clogging up the spot on judicial nominations. Given how Congress is drawn, Wall Street Journal Kimberley Strassel noted that confirming judges is the only area where Democrats can have some level of success. Everything else is dead on arrival with a Republican House. Yet, with the Left conspiring to push Feinstein out, they’ve placed the age and competency issue back on the table, which Strassel aptly notes, puts a target on Joe Biden’s back.

The whisper campaign against Feinstein has been somewhat vicious, with allegations that she’s guilty of dereliction of duty. Her health issues, like a recent bout with shingles, have led to the California Senator missing many votes. It’s excellent ammunition for the Left to use against her, but this isn’t about maintaining a functioning government. If Feinstein isn’t competent, then Biden isn’t either, as seen with his call for international cooperation in Ireland and hopes that both nations "lick the world" (via WSJ):

Whatever Messrs. Khanna’s and Phillips’s motivations, they have thrust into central debate the topic of age and competency. Which raises the obvious question of how it is not likewise a "dereliction of duty" for Democrats to remain silent about Mr. Biden. His decline has become impossible to ignore, and the pace is notable, with weekly if not daily gaffes, stumbles and confusion. This week’s feature: Mr. Biden, in Ireland, embarrassingly confusing the New Zealand rugby team (the All Blacks) with a 1920s British paramilitary group that helped occupy Ireland (the Black and Tans).

Democrats kept mum about Mr. Biden’s predicament in the 2020 election, and even as concern has since grown, the party establishment remains loath to entertain a 2024 primary fight. Apart from what happens to the country under Mr. Biden’s leadership, Democrats might consider the potential for problems for the party, à la today’s Feinstein moment.

How electable will Mr. Biden be 19 months from now? Might Democratic voters—already feeding into the president’s low approval ratings—prove unwilling to turn out for the party’s anointed yet faltering nominee? What happens if Mr. Biden announces a run yet by next spring is incapable of following through, leaving the party in disarray?

One smart move in today’s crazy political environment is to assume anything is possible, including the worst. All the more so when there are already blaring signs of a problem to come. Democrats might view the Feinstein moment as a warning of the danger they are courting by continuing to close their eyes to what the rest of the country so clearly sees.
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Posted by:Fred

#7  Profiling is always dangerous in specific cases, but it is a useful tool in overviewing patterns and trends. When a multiple victim shooting occurs in an urban area and there are no names or pictures soon after the event, I tend to assume feral urban youth. The pattern for jackass political demonstrations and protests about abortion-rights, threats to democracy and climate change, I tend to assume large, unremarkable-looking, single white women with degree(s) who have found a purpose. Recent patterns have done nothing to curb this assumption set.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-04-16 19:02  

#6  /\ Sadly correct I fear. Apologies to the Aztec human sacrifice crowd.






Posted by: Besoeker   2023-04-16 16:10  

#5  Agree with #1 Super Hose...I'll just add that the single women with BA degrees will never forgive the Republicans and in particular Donald Trump for appointing the Supreme Court justices that allowed people of each state to decide about abortion for themselves.
Posted by: Tom   2023-04-16 15:26  

#4  Although there are government funds going into many households, I don’t know what percentage are voting Dem. It is certainly a majority of them, but not 100%. I have a disabled son, for instance. He votes Republican, to my knowledge. My folks are on social security and definitely vote against liberals. The Dem percentage is high, but not 100%. As for future election results, I intend to vote. Quitting guarantees defeat.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-04-16 14:02  

#3  Ref #1: Sad indeed.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-04-16 07:50  

#2  Feinstein’s exceptional staff has kept her office from going off the rails does this include the Chinese spy on staff or is this an example of her staff, by hiring the Chinese spy?
Posted by: Airandee   2023-04-16 07:08  

#1  Sadly, Biden will probably run and probably be re-elected. The mail-in voting mechanism for making sure they never lose another presidential election + the fact that 40% of Americans live in a household with at least one nonmilitary government paycheck as part of the income stream and will never vote for anyone not a Democrat means that they can run someone well into advanced dementia like Biden and not have to worry about the Republicans gaining the presidency.

Add to that the fact that most white women will never forgive the American public for scorning their ladyparts by proxy when they voted for Trump not Clinton in 2016 and will vote for Democrats for the rest of their life, and, well...

Absent some terrible black swan event, or the Republicans figuring out how to catch up on over a decade of Democrat election tactics, the Republicans are not going to be able to put someone into the office of head of state for the foreseeable future.
Posted by: no mo uro   2023-04-16 07:00  

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