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2022-04-14 Home Front: Politix

88 Year old Dianne Feinstein's memory fading and she may no longer be fit to serve, senators say

[FOX] U.S. lawmakers are reportedly questioning California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's capacity to do her job at her age.

Senators and other officials are reportedly concerned that Diane Feinstein, 88, is no longer mentally competent enough to do her job as a lawmaker, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Feinstein's critics, however, have declined to speak on the record and asked to have their names withheld.

"I have worked with her for a long time and long enough to know what she was like just a few years ago: always in command, always in charge, on top of the details, basically couldn’t resist a conversation where she was driving some bill or some idea. All of that is gone," an anonymous lawmaker told the Chronicle.

"She was an intellectual and political force not that long ago,

...political, yes. But intellectual is not a word I ever thought to see attached to her name...

and that’s why my encounter with her was so jarring. Because there was just no trace of that," the lawmaker allegedly continued.

"It’s bad, and it’s getting worse," a Democratic senator reportedly told the Chronicle.

Sources speaking to the Chronicle about the issue remained anonymous.

In particular, Feinstein has defended any perceived distractions as a consequence of her husband's tragic death due to cancer earlier this year.

"The last year has been extremely painful and distracting for me, flying back and forth to visit my dying husband who passed just a few weeks ago," Feinstein's office told Fox News Digital in a statement. "But there’s no question I’m still serving and delivering for the people of California, and I’ll put my record up against anyone’s."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-14 12:33|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Far past time for term limits and age limits on these position.

Posted by Chris 2022-04-14 13:54|| 2022-04-14 13:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I agree. You shouldn't be making this a career for 40 years and stay until your dementia makes you keel over.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-14 14:20|| 2022-04-14 14:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Goonew Profit Theory.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-14 14:29|| 2022-04-14 14:29|| Front Page Top

#4 My theory is, the ones who want to stay and steal more, just buy them out early, they are going to cost us either way. The ones who actually want to wield political power, that's a straight up disqualifier and you euthanize those ones immediately.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-14 14:31|| 2022-04-14 14:31|| Front Page Top

#5 More "anonymous" sniping from the Democratic 'Far Left' wing?

Posted by magpie 2022-04-14 14:34|| 2022-04-14 14:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Give her a break. She's still as mentally capable as the upper 50% of lawmakers on the seniority list.

Posted by jpal 2022-04-14 16:21|| 2022-04-14 16:21|| Front Page Top

#7 "She's forgotten more than lots of politicians know..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-14 16:32|| 2022-04-14 16:32|| Front Page Top

#8 She may well do a better job in her current condition than at her peak...

Posted by Glenmore 2022-04-14 16:39|| 2022-04-14 16:39|| Front Page Top

#9 "She's forgotten more than lots of politicians know..."

Last I checked, Nothing... take away nothing... plus nothing is still... Nothing.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-04-14 16:42|| 2022-04-14 16:42|| Front Page Top

#10 ...which is why we have not seen nor heard from her in over a year.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-04-14 17:23|| 2022-04-14 17:23|| Front Page Top

#11 How long was it tht they were bringing in Grand Kleagle Bob Byrd's taxidermied body on a trolley to vote in the senate?

Posted by Herb Platypus8011 2022-04-14 17:34|| 2022-04-14 17:34|| Front Page Top

#12 She was never fit to serve.

Posted by Ebbaise Brown5939 2022-04-14 17:57|| 2022-04-14 17:57|| Front Page Top

#13 She brings to the Senate what Ruth Bader Ginsberg brought to the Supreme Court on her final days.

Posted by jpal 2022-04-14 17:57|| 2022-04-14 17:57|| Front Page Top

#14 With Cali politics the way they are, Brylcreem will have to appoint some sort of gawdawful freak to fill her term, or the dem base will go insane. Watch him appoint someone even the current crop of dems have trouble agreeing to seat.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-14 18:06|| 2022-04-14 18:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Think of the contortions Newsom is going through trying to figure out how to appoint himself?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-04-14 19:23|| 2022-04-14 19:23|| Front Page Top

#16 If he could "transition," Cali voters might go for it. The surgery can be rushed (he'll give himself a waiver on the "counseling,") but I don't think the hormones work that quickly.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-14 19:37|| 2022-04-14 19:37|| Front Page Top

#17 Someone needs to get her into a conversation with Biden and record everything they say. Comedy gold.

Posted by ruprecht 2022-04-14 22:21|| 2022-04-14 22:21|| Front Page Top

#18 Good heavens, I remember when that old bag was mayor of San Fran.

But funny how Feinstein began to go "down hill" after the SCOTUS confirmation hearings for that Notre Dame dame.

Posted by DooDahMan 2022-04-14 23:04|| 2022-04-14 23:04|| Front Page Top

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