Posted on 05/10/2023 3:42:36 PM PDT by dennisw
Ailing Democratic Senator says she is still suffering side effects and will take a lighter schedule as she finally returns to work Dianne Feinstein returned to the Senate on Wednesday She looked frail and pale as she was helped out her car Chuck Schumer was at her side as she was wheeled into Senate chamber
Senator Dianne Feinstein arrived at the Senate on Wednesday in a wheelchair and said she has to work a lighter schedule due to side-effects from shingles.
A car drove her to the entrance of the Capitol building. The 89-year-old Democratic Senator from California looked frail, weak and pale as aides helped her out. Her left eye was closed.
Feinstein has been absent for nearly three months and missed almost 100 votes after suffering from shingles.
Side-effects include lingering pain known as postherpetic neuralgia, painful eye infections that may result in vision loss, facial paralysis, or problems with hearing or balance, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Feinstein faced calls to resign - even from her fellow Democrats - amid her health struggles and concerns that her absence could hold up confirmations of President Joe Biden's judges. She sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which holds the confirmation hearings.
She has refused to step down. Several women lawmakers supported her, calling it sexist to ask Feinstein - a trailblazing female lawmaker - to resign when many white males have served in the Senate until their deaths.
Feinstein flew from California - where she was recovering in her San Francisco home - to Washington D.C. on Tuesday night via a private plane.
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She’s the Ruth Bader Ginsgurg of the US Senate. The only way she is leaving is feet first. I love how her absence is ruining (sabotaging) the Democrat vote count on some important “issues”
Such as getting some heinous Rat judges through the Senate
For crying out loud.....how bloody old and decrepit do these criminals have to get before they pack it in??!!! It can’t possibly be money.....she isn’t even going to be alive long enough to spend much more! What a sham.
They’ll be bringing her carcass out of the senate on a gurney.
Diane Feinstein, Adam Schiffhead and Jerry the penguin Nadler are all poster children for term limits!
“It can’t possibly be money”
Sure it is. How many lamprey eel demorats are living off of her?
She came back. Darn.
And I did flush twice.
They’ll find the hag face down on her splendid senate desk or whatever the hell that thing is called.
Shingle doesn’t care.
Oh geeez! Just wheel her back out to the parking lot and leave her! These people (and thier families) have ZERO self awareness and can not care less about the country!
How did the “party of inclusion” become so full of decrepit geriatric caucasian?
This gun grabbing traitor needs to be put out to pasture. Can’t happen fast enough.
You are not out for five months with shingles, and you don’t come back in a wheelchair.
I have treated hundreds of patients with shingles, many elderly. This is a cover story.
It just shows how very desperate the dems are for her vote.
It is pretty sick
Not Senate but John Dingell was in the US House at 87 and used to be wheeled in and had a young male aide tell him when the vote was being conducted. The young man would ask Dingell (whose head was totally slumped forward) for his preference and then do the vote for him. Current Rep.Debbie Dingel in Michigan is the heir (like in England?) because she was his widow and sort of wanted to give politics a try when he died. She ran for her own term and won, plus re-elected.
Before John Dingell for the same seat: John David Dingell Sr. (born Feb.2, 1894) represented Michigan’s 15th congressional district from 1933 to 1955. Father of John Dingell.
https://www.termlimits.com/who-holds-the-record-for-longest-time-in-congress/
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I gotta get back in there. President Roosevelt can’t fight this world war by himself.
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