A new report from the San Francisco Chronicle details the sad cognitive decline of one of the oldest members of the US Senate.
According to the report, California US Senator Diane Feinstein’s colleagues are concerned about her cognitive abilities to carry out her duties.
“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.”
According to the Chronicle, the interaction was “so unnerving” that the lawmaker who had the meeting with Feinstein began speaking with colleagues about the incident and raising questions about whether or not Feinstein should retire.
“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.”
Three former Feinstein staffers and four US Senators also told the SF Chronicle that Feinstein is on the decline.
Everyone in the story spoke under the condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the subject.
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As a lifelong Democrat from GA, I’ll have to admit that it’s time Sen. Feinstein retired from the Senate, and a replacement found. I think a mandatory retirement age should be instituted. That’s a tough thing to do because everybody declines at a different rate, but 72 might be a good age to require people to retire from public service. I hate to see our Congress and even the presidency being run by old and senile people or those bordering on senility. There’s just too much at stake.
Why are these concerned colleagues not making the same claims about our President? He is actively showing us everyday that he has dementia. Anyone who is in the medical field or someone with a family member with dementia can see that this man is impaired. These three former Feinstein staffers and four US Senators, who cowardly remain anonymous, do not care about our country. Democrats, who needs them?
I would like to see mandatory retirement after twenty years service or age 75.
Why are these concerned colleagues not making the same claims about our President? He is actively showing us everyday that he has dementia. Anyone who is in the medical field or someone with a family member with dementia can see that this man is impaired. These three former Feinstein staffers and four US Senators, who cowardly remain anonymous, do not care about our country. Democrats, who needs them?