Is Dianne Feinstein's "mental fitness" similar to PINO Biden's?

Would you hire an 88-year-old as an executive secretary as opposed to the position of Walmart greeter? In the case of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a similar scenario is at play.

Feinstein has been a US Senator since 1992 and had also been mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988. She'll turn 89 on June 22nd, and in spite of that, she plans to run again in 2024, if she is still around.

When the founders penned the U.S. Constitution, while it wasn't addressed directly, they believed that Congressional service shouldn't be a lifetime job. 

In the early days of the American republic, the idea of "rotation in office" was popular and term limits was viewed as a way to prevent corruption and entrenched interests from remaining permanently in power. A lack of change, they worried, would be destructive to a republican form of government.

Under the Articles of Confederation, term limits were set for representatives to three terms in any six-year period. This was debated at length and eventually abandoned when the Constitution was being constructed as many Founders were skeptical of its usefulness, in spite of many believing in favor of term limits.

Dianne Feinstein has been in office around the same time that Julius Caesar was first making a name for himself. She is old, very old, and Democrats on Capitol Hill are quietly acknowledging that she has grown too old for the job. “There’s a joke on the Hill,” a Democratic staffer told the San Francisco Chronicle. “We’ve got a great junior senator in Alex Padilla and an experienced staff in Feinstein’s office.”

There was an instance described in the article in which a California Congressional Democrat was speaking with Feinstein and thought they were going to have a deep policy conversation as there had been in the past, but the lawmaker explained that many times during the discussion, they had to reintroduce themself to her because she didn't recall their name. 

And as the discussion unfolded, rather than talking about policy, Feinstein kept repeating the same small-talk questions with no obvious recognition that she had already asked it a number of times.

This same lawmaker raised concerns with colleagues to see if Feinstein could be persuaded to retire. However, these same concerns have yet to be addressed with PINO Joe Biden who is obviously suffering from severe cognitive decline on top of his long-term stupidity and ineptness. 

Feinstein’s term runs through the end of 2024. She will be pushing 91 and if she wins--that's ridiculous, but so is Biden. 

Feinstein's driver, a Chinese Communist spy, is no longer getting intel from the Senator as he was relieved of his job when his covert job description was revealed. 

California officials were quiet, but media personalities, academics and political operatives suggested it makes the case for term limits.

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.

Many others familiar with Feinstein’s situation describe her as seriously struggling, and say it has been evident for several years. Speaking on background, and with respect for her accomplished career, 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. 

Feinstein’s staff has said that sometimes she seems herself, and other times unreachable, which may be what is known as "sundown syndrome" where the person become increasingly impaired as the day goes on and the sun goes down.

Feinstein rarely engages with the public outside her official duties as a member of Senate committees. nor does she do extended sit-down interviews with the media. She does, however, field questions from the press in the Senate hallways, but often responds by saying she doesn’t know enough to comment or gives nonspecific responses.

House Speaker Nancy "Hands of Fury" Pelosi, in a statement to The Chronicle said that she had not noticed a decline in Feinstein’s memory and noted her work on the recent reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and the Supreme Court confirmation. But neither Pelosi nor Feinstein could give a definition as to what is a woman, and Pelosi is also gathering moss as she is 82-year-old and has lost some of her cognitive ability.

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“Senator Feinstein is a workhorse for the people of California and a respected leader among her colleagues in the Senate,” Pelosi said, as her hands flew in all directions. “She is constantly traveling between California and the Capitol, working relentlessly to ensure Californians’ needs are met and voices are heard.”

“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.” [See also Joseph Robinette Biden.]

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