What Is Dianne Feinstein Still Doing Here?

Jonathan Chait says that Sen. Diane Feinstein’s (D-CA) refusal to retire is “an act of almost sociopathic indifference to the people she’s supposed to be serving.”

“For one thing, she has stuck to the office for an unusually long time, even by senatorial standards, to a point where her colleagues and staff openly doubt her cognitive functioning. The San Francisco Chronicle reported a series of alarming anecdotes last year: One California congressional Democrat ‘had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein multiple times during an interaction that lasted several hours’; ‘some close to her said that on her most difficult days, she does not seem to fully recognize even longtime colleagues’; ‘a month prior, she repeated a question to a witness, word for word, in a hearing with seemingly no awareness of having done so.'”

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