Today’s piece in the San Francisco Chronicle is only more alarming in that multiple people - fellow Democratic colleagues and Feinstein’s own staffers - are now going public. Dorsey responded - and Feinstein followed up by asking him the exact same question again, verbatim, as though it were the first time. That piece led with Feinstein asking Twitter’s then-CEO Jack Dorsey, at a Senate Judiciary Hearing, a lengthy, detailed question in which she quoted from one of President Trump’s tweets. APĪs far back as 2020, The New Yorker reported that Dianne Feinstein had been “seriously struggling” with her memory - for years. “And because they’re still there, they’re blocking the 25- or 30- or 35-year-old who is more of their time and could be more innovative and creative solving the problems we face today, rather than the problems we faced 35 years ago.” A YouGov poll said 58 percent of Americans support age limits for politicians.
Congress people who’ve been there 20, 30, 40 years,” Barack Obama said in 2017. It’s not healthy - or fair to the generations behind them - for the nation to remain in these arthritic clutches. Pelosi, Grassley and Shelby are fast approaching age 90. Who really thinks that a cohort of 70- and 80-somethings - led by Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Grassley, Mitch McConnell, Pat Leahy, Jim Inhofe and Richard Shelby - are best equipped to deal with this? Strom Thurmond was 100 years old when he retired from the Senate. Among our biggest public health crises today is Big Tech, which is deliberately corroding and addicting our youngest and most vulnerable - not to mention propping up dictators, disseminating all kinds of misinformation, interfering in wars and elections and colonizing space. Posner, “is the nation’s premier geriatric occupation.”Ĭongress is right there with them. The self-awareness to know one is aging out - negated by the craven desire for power. Douglas contemplated retirement because, as he wrote to a friend, “My ideas are way out of line with current trends.” By the end of his second term, Ronald Reagan was falling asleep in cabinet meetings and so inattentive that his aides broached invoking the 25th Amendment with Reagan’s chief of staff.įour years before a stroke forced him to resign in 1975, Supreme Court Justice William O. Strom Thurmond retired at 100 years of age, his complete out-to-lunch-ness an open secret on Capitol Hill. Dianne Feinstein, 88, is exhibiting problems with her memory.
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So are some of his own staffers, who, according to a September 2021 Politico report, either mute or turn off his live press conferences - so alarmed are they by the inevitable next malapropism or false claim or thought to nowhere or near-catastrophic foreign policy bungle. When asked how he’d handle a dispute with his actual vice president, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden told CNN, “I will develop some disease and say I have to resign.”Ī recent Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 48% of Americans are concerned about Biden’s mental fitness. So easy to get the latter two confused, isn’t it? Yet we have a 79-year-old in the White House who, on any given day, thinks that his VP is his wife, or that his wife is his sister and his sister is the first lady, or that Michelle Obama is the vice president or that Barack Obama is Donald Trump and vice versa. Air traffic controllers must retire at age 56. I’ll brace for angry emails from readers who still have landlines, dial-up modems and AOL addresses in making this argument: We’re long overdue for age limits on our legislators.Ĭommercial airline pilots are forced to retire at age 65. Dianne Feinstein is exhibiting signs of dementia? Oscars will police how diverse you are, but violence? That's fineĭoes it shock anyone, really, to learn that 88-year-old veteran US Sen. The Academy never took away Harvey Weinstein's Oscar - so how could they not let off Will Smith? Johnny sinks to new Depps: Star's testimony a disaster class in acting Hollywood ushers in a new Golden Age - of the 50-something romcom queen Amber Heard's riveting testimony took apart the Johnny Depp myth