House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a statement to The Chronicle, said she had not noticed a decline in Feinstein’s memory . . .
But then, she wouldn’t. :good-morning:
“Senator Feinstein is a workhorse for the people of California and a respected leader among her colleagues in the Senate,” Pelosi said. “She is constantly traveling between California and the Capitol, working relentlessly to ensure Californians’ needs are met and voices are heard.” (Emphasis mine.)
but
Feinstein has not had a town hall since 2017, according to the congressional tracker LegiStorm, and has not held any local events this year.
“Representative Pelosi - do you have any comment on Senator Feinstein?”
“Who?”
“Senator Diane Feinstein.”
“I… Um…”
“She’s the senior senator from California…”
“Oh, no. I don’t like egg salad.”
Yet they railroaded her primary challenger.
:fuckin-deserve:
She’s a sock puppet for her donors and for state party bosses. Like, the ideal Senator would just be a life sized mechanical turk that people can operate from under a big table in the Senate. But she’s the next best alternative.
Working as planned:
During that Jan. 20 hearing, and during a Feb. 3 hearing for a similar bill to loosen phone makers’ control over app purchases, a staff member hovered at Feinstein’s right hand during every roll call, sitting down once she had cast her vote.
There is also nasty rumors about how her staff actually love that her brain is pudding, because that allows them to make policy on her behalf and reap the rewards.
Wormtongue never had it so good
Remember when she shat on a bunch of kids concerned about climate change a few years ago? Lich Queen.
Was that before or after AOC sat in at Pelosi’s office for a photo-op with some students?
I hate articles like this. Put the good stuff first. I want my dessert first - damn it. This is how the article ends…
Though the Senate runs on a lot of staff work, the former staffers for Feinstein described an environment in which it was challenging to get things done due to her frequent inability to recall previous conversations or follow complicated discussions.
One former staffer said they would have conversations about sending a letter out, and the next day Feinstein would not remember the conversation.
In one instance, the former staffer recalled, they wanted Feinstein to sign off on something that would have advanced an important investigation. But Feinstein repeatedly said she could not understand why the investigative step was necessary, an explanation the staffer said they felt was a result of Feinstein not being able to follow the thread of the investigation.
“It’s really hard to have a micromanager who is not fully remembering everything that we’ve talked about,” the staffer said. “My biggest concern is that it’s a real disservice to the people of California.”
The lawmaker who had the hours-long interaction with Feinstein referenced a classic fable in which people are afraid to speak the truth to a powerful leader: “We’ve got an ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ problem here.”
My favorite part was earlier:
Several people were alarmed by Feinstein’s performance at the memorial service last June for former Port of San Francisco Commissioner Anne Halsted, the first woman to serve on the city’s Port Commission, whom the senator had known for decades.
Feinstein didn’t mention Halsted in her initial remarks, but offered generic comments about San Francisco and gave shout-outs to people in the audience, including Pelosi, whom Feinstein described as “the Democratic leader in the United States Senate.” Moments later, Feinstein backtracked, joking to Pelosi, “Nancy, I promoted you to the Senate,” in a moment captured on video footage obtained by The Chronicle. The audience laughed.
Some were uncomfortable with what they saw. After Feinstein sat down, “and it was clear that she hadn’t said anything about Anne, there was a ripple through the crowd,” said one person in the audience who has known Feinstein for decades and was granted anonymity to be able to speak freely about the incident because they continue to work with Bay Area officials.
Feinstein later returned to the podium and spoke about Halsted, and said she was told by her staff that she needed to speak again. She spoke about Halsted in present tense, according to another video provided to The Chronicle.
“It was quite disconcerting,” said the person who attended the event. “It’s clear that she’s really over the line.”
That’s a good one too. Also - she hasn’t given a town hall meeting since 2017 and the damning New Yorker article came out in December, 2020. The dems have surely known for many years that her brain was turning into crab bisque.
I guess the dems are leaking to the media in hopes she’ll announce her early retirement. But what happens if she’s at the point of her dementia where she’ll only do what she wants? Here we are right before an election. Great job democrats!
Honestly, having their brains turn to goo and overseeing the crumbling American empire is exactly what the boomers deserve.
This never stopped Regan’s administration. Just fucking forge her signature or weekend at Bernie’s her corpse you cowards.
Do her staffers not realize that they are the Senator from California now?
