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Rumors about Senator Dianne Feinstein getting pretty dotty at the age of 88 go back well over a year now, but things apparently are getting more serious with colleagues suggesting she has some very bad days.
[written in 2010] I certainly understand the collective whine coming from us progressives over the "loss" of Senators Dodd and Dorgen. But look, both of them have birthdays in May: Dodd will be 66 and Dorgan 68. When are these guys supposed to retire? We've got the oldest US Senate in the history of forever. Forty-eight US Senators are over sixty-five, and twenty-seven of those are over seventy. [The current number shows 31 Senators over 70.] I don't want anyone to think I'm being ageist here, though I actually think it's an ageist thing on the part of boomers to keep these (pardon th...
Dianne Feinstein Faces Fresh Round of ‘Rumors of Her Cognitive Decline’ The 87-year-old senator has visibly lost a step, but a new report features stories from (mostly anonymous) aides saying that her mental deterioration is a lot further along than we realize. California’s senior senator (and boy, do we mean senior!) Dianne Feinstein is well known to be a little out of step with her liberal California constituency. Out of 47 Democratic or Democratic-caucusing sitting senators, GovTrack ranks her as the 18th most liberal, which is still fairly progressive, but only slightly left of th...
One of the most talked-about articles of the week is a Jane Mayer piece in The New Yorker that tackles a delicate subject: aging members of Congress who have suffered some type of mental decline. Mayer, in her article, discussed the 87-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein extensively, but the article wasn't really about Feinstein exclusively, but rather, older members of Congress in general. And the journalist discussed that subject some more during a Friday, December 11 appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Mayer told "Morning Joe" hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, "It's a sad storyâ¦....
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