Colleagues Worry Dianne Feinstein Is Mentally Unfit To Serve: “Memory Rapidly Deteriorating”
The California Democratic Party (and some voters like myself) tried desperately to get rid of this worthless dinosaur in 2018, but the national Democratic Party (helped by clueless California voters) wasn’t about to let a progressive candidate like Kevin DeLeon take over from their reliable brain dead puppet. Now, Dianne Feinstein is essentially a corpse in Congress for the next two years, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. In fact, Weekend At Dianne’s could even continue past 2024 if the Democrats are able to prop her up again through another election! Feinstein being able to remain in office “representing” the largest state in the union is a tragedy for over 40 million Californians, not to mention a perfect example of just how easy it is for democracy to fail. Read the full horrifying story at SF Chronicle, but here’s an excerpt:
When a California Democrat in Congress recently engaged in an extended conversation with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, they prepared for a rigorous policy discussion like those they’d had with her many times over the last 15 years.
Instead, the lawmaker said, they had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein multiple times during an interaction that lasted several hours.
Rather than delve into policy, Feinstein, 88, repeated the same small-talk questions, like asking the lawmaker what mattered to voters in their district, the member of Congress said, with no apparent recognition the two had already had a similar conversation.
The episode was so unnerving that the lawmaker — who spoke to The Chronicle on condition they not be identified because of the sensitivity of the topic — began raising concerns with colleagues to see if some kind of intervention to persuade Feinstein to retire was possible. Feinstein’s term runs through the end of 2024.
“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,” the lawmaker said. “She was an intellectual and political force not that long ago, and that’s why my encounter with her was so jarring. Because there was just no trace of that.”
Four U.S. senators, including three Democrats, as well as three former Feinstein staffers and the California Democratic member of Congress told The Chronicle in recent interviews that her memory is rapidly deteriorating. They said it appears she can no longer fulfill her job duties without her staff doing much of the work required to represent the nearly 40 million people of California.
