.@JaneMayerNYer "they say her short-term memory has grown so poor that she often forgets she has been briefed on a topic, accusing her staff of failing to do so just after they have. They describe Feinstein as forgetting what she has said & getting upset." https://t.co/nAQAF7CFFg
— Michael Luo (@michaelluo) December 10, 2020
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One aide to another senator described what he called a “Kabuki” meeting in which Feinstein’s staff tried to steer her through a proposed piece of legislation that she protested was “just words” which “make no sense.”
Feinstein’s staff has said that sometimes she seems herself, and other times unreachable. “The staff is in such a bad position,” a former Senate aide who still has business in Congress said. “They have to defend her and make her seem normal.”
A stickler for detail, she demanded to see every page going out of her office with her name on it. But with her diminishing capacity, this has become increasingly difficult. The former Senate staffer who still works with Congress declared, “It’s been a disaster.”
As the ranking Democrat, Feinstein ordinarily would be expected to run the Party’s strategy on issues of major national importance, including judicial nominations. Instead, the committee has been hamstrung and disorganized. very different mode now.”
“Other members were constantly trying to go around her because, as chair, she didn’t want to do anything, and she also didn’t want them doing anything,” the former Senate staffer said.
A current aide to a different Democratic senator observed sadly, “She’s an incredibly effective human being, but there’s definitely been deterioration in the last year. She’s in a very different mode now.”
We are a nation led by people who should be lying in bed, eating Jell-O, watching daytime TV.
One was has now been declared President Elect.
Washington DC is little more than The Villages for white collar criminal.
The party of youth! Leading us boldly into the future (as seen from the 1920’s)!
I think it’s time for a maximum age limit so we shed the sclerotic gerontocracy in Congress, Maxine Waters looks more like Robert Mugabe daily.
Term limits, anyone?
The Chinese say that Feinstein’s oxymoronic “growing loss” of memory proves that their “Mind Control” interference is working.
The independent pharmacy that provides prescription services to Capitol Hill in DC admits they deliver Aricept to many Congresspeople.
We need drug testing of Congress, Judiciary, and the executive branch.
So? She’s been this bad for years. Just the media and her staff have been covering for her.
The real questions is: Why now? Why are they outing her inability to do her job now? And who is Gruesome Newsom have in line to replace her?
Seriously, she’s been vacant upstairs since way before the sham impeachment, and was clocked out for the ACB confirmation.
So she’s just like Biden, eh.
The other day I saw a nice clip of Biden announcing Xavier Becerra. He butchered both the person’s name and the department he was being nominated for, referring to it by an approximation of what it was called before Jimmy Carter became president.
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1336389891215814665
As it is right now, just over 36% of Congress is over 65 and the average age of the senate is right around 62.
Hell, the FBI has mandatory retirement at 57 (special exemptions up to 65). But we can let a bunch of senile old geriatrics run our states and country.
Will someone please get the sim controls away from the psychopath/sociopath teenager and restore some damn order here…
I have trouble believing that Fenstein “gets upset” over forgetting what she’s just said.
I was under the impression she was always upset.