Sen. Feinstein, 87, files initial paperwork to run for re-election in 2024
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Jan. 12, 2021
That appears to be a real possibility after L.A. Magazine reported that the 87-year-old U.S. senator from California filed the initial re-election paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday.
By the 2024 election, Feinstein, who is already the oldest sitting senator, will be 91. If she were to win re-election and serve her entire term, she would be 97.
It was just last month that prominent liberal commentators suggested that Feinstein should retire, citing "cognitive decline."
"It's time for Sen. Feinstein to retire," wrote UC Irvine law professor and CNN contributor Rick Hasen. "She did some great work in Senate. But it's been clear for last few years that her cognitive decline is serious. Let Gov. Newsom appoint someone who can fully represent CA's interests until election."
According to a New Yorker article in December, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., had to ask Feinstein twice to step down from her role as the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee because she forgot the first conversation. The article cites an aide to another Democratic senator who stated, “She’s an incredibly effective human being, but there’s definitely been deterioration in the last year. She’s in a very different mode now.”
The article also cites several unnamed sources close to Feinstein and the Senate who say "her short-term memory has grown so poor that she often forgets she has been briefed on a topic," and that her "staff has said that sometimes she seems herself, and other times unreachable."
Feinstein stepped down from her position as the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee in late November after facing criticism for her handling of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearings just weeks before the election. Some Democrats wanted Feinstein to be more aggressive in efforts to stop Barrett's confirmation.
“We do get things done and we do pass bills. You do get older, that’s true. But I have been productive,” she told the Los Angeles Times last month.
You're Too Old!
You're Too Old!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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ex-khobar Andy
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Re: You're Too Old!
Yes - there's a point at which you say 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant: here's your pension.'
She praised Lindsey Graham and the Republicans in general after the whole Amy Coney Barrett thing despite the clear and obvious hypocrisy about how they treated Merrick Garland.
She praised Lindsey Graham and the Republicans in general after the whole Amy Coney Barrett thing despite the clear and obvious hypocrisy about how they treated Merrick Garland.
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Re: You're Too Old!
. . . before it all goes south
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Re: You're Too Old!
That would be a drag....