Posted on 02/20/2023 8:19:29 PM PST by Rummyfan
Once upon a time we mocked the Soviet Union for its gerontocracy. Aged party leaders, bundled up in overcoats and fur hats to the point of near-unrecognizability, would be wheeled out to sit, immobile, as parades passed or party congresses opened. Their withered, stale leadership was emblematic of the decaying USSR’s withered, stale ideology — and industrial base.
But now the joke’s on us. A leading United States senator, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), can’t seem to remember important things, like her just-taken vote on a judicial nominee and her just-announced retirement. “Did I vote for that?” she asked an aide Wednesday, moments after leaving the chamber.
The day before, the oldest sitting senator announced she wouldn’t seek another term — or her staff did, anyway. Asked about her coming retirement an hour after the statement posted, Feinstein said, “Well, I haven’t made that decision. I haven’t released anything.” A staffer told her she had. As The Post reported, “an incredulous-sounding Feinstein” said, “You put out the statement?” before telling reporters, “I didn’t know they put it out.”
Well, Feinstein is 89. She shouldn’t be expected to remember things too well at that age. But maybe she shouldn’t be expected to serve two more years in the Senate, either.
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Most people want benefits and a free ride, not hard work and constant effort and they don’t give a crap about virtue.
Much of the world has a Grift.
Us stupid conservatives want to work for an honest living.
Case established! Voting is of no consequence, a waste of time. Leave it to the professionals. 🙊
None of them are fit to serve so I would not go to any of them to ask who is fit and who isn’t.
To dems, they are the best.
Biden “administration” for example are mostly front man puppets.
Compared to FJB & Kamel, why not?
Exactly.
After I constructed the Obama 2008 Vote Fraud Detection tool and used it to analyze the 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022 "elections", I came to the conclusion that you should 1) keep your head down, 2) collect the money that the "government" stole from you [Social Security and Medicare] and 3) go off on them like a hybrid porcupine/Honey Badger if they mess with you.
Be invisible. If you stick your head up, they'll cut it off, and laugh about it.
I still remember that Lefty academic from the University of Wisconsin [Madison] laughing at us on FR after the end of the Clinton impeachment wars, and sticking it in our faces that all our predictions of Clintonites going to jail NEVER HAPPENED.
She really rubbed it in - and she was right.
99% of what DC congress does is unconstitutional. It ain’t just PA voters.
“ Eighty-nine and not a grey hair on her head. Simply amazing.”
Clearly some exceptional genes.
All that matters is a warm body and a sure vote for their agenda. Sadly they can only use the dead for votes otherwise they would be propped up in chairs in an office
As long as they can be wheeled in to vote properly, The Party is more than happy to have them there.
We have Democrat Representatives who believe that an island can tip over and that America landed people on Mars.
The Democrats think Nikki Haley isn’t part of another generation. She’s not 80.
They (like Biden) are surrogates, only props, or conduits to advance the Party’s Commie agenda.
Not 89 and hardly any hair at all!
Well heck - if Massie Hirono and Chris Murphy can pass as US Senators....
The reason for term limits. And if not that, politicians should be forced to resign at the earliest Social Security date. Make that a constitutional amendment.
Diane is still important as long as her arms dealer husband Richard Blum is around. He supplied the guns from CHINA for Bush’s Iraq war.
There’s bipartisanship for you!
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