New Yorker’s hit job on Dianne Feinstein for her old age

[basquebromance]

i'll be periodically posting the best excerpts

What’s the New Yorker’s excuse for publishing this hit job on Dianne Feinstein?

The New Yorker has a problem, and its name is Jane Mayer. Mayer, a professional peddler of unsubstantiated sleaze, has a banger of a report out this week,

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats

Older lawmakers’ foibles and infirmities are coming under new scrutiny, violating an unspoken culture of complicity and coverup.

www.newyorker.com

 

[basquebromance]

"It was a good question. Feinstein seemed sharp and focussed. For decades, she has been the epitome of a female trailblazer in Washington, always hyper-prepared. But this time, after Dorsey responded, Feinstein asked him the same question again, reading it word for word, along with the Trump tweet. Her inflection was eerily identical. Feinstein looked and sounded just as authoritative, seemingly registering no awareness that she was repeating herself verbatim. Dorsey graciously answered the question all over again.

Social media was less polite. A conservative Web site soon posted a clip of the humiliating moment on YouTube, under the headline “Senator Feinstein just asked the same question twice and didn’t realize she did it,” adding an emoji of someone covering his face with his hand in shame, along with bright red type proclaiming “Time to Retire!!” Six days later, under growing pressure from progressive groups who were already outraged by her faltering management of Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Feinstein released a statement announcing that she would step down from the Democrats’ senior position, while continuing as a non-ranking member of the committee."

 

[basquebromance]

"The former Senate staffer who still works with Congress declared, “It’s been a disaster.” As the ranking Democrat, Feinstein ordinarily would be expected to run the Party’s strategy on issues of major national importance, including judicial nominations. Instead, the committee has been hamstrung and disorganized. “Other members were constantly trying to go around her because, as chair, she didn’t want to do anything, and she also didn’t want them doing anything,” the former Senate staffer said. A current aide to a different Democratic senator observed sadly, “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.”"

 

[Polishprince]

A lot of senators deteriorate in their old age. You never know when its going to be.

The late Strom Thurmond wasn't as sharp as he was before in his last few years, but in the mid 1990's , he was really on top of shit, in spite of being over 90. My brother is a lawyer who chatted with the Tremendous Senator on an airliner in the mid 1990s and was impressed.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Well, so much for the ‘liberal’ media.

 

[basquebromance]

folks who pal around with white supremacist senators don't belong in my threads!

 

[Viktor]

i'll be periodically posting the best excerpts

What’s the New Yorker’s excuse for publishing this hit job on Dianne Feinstein?

The New Yorker has a problem, and its name is Jane Mayer. Mayer, a professional peddler of unsubstantiated sleaze, has a banger of a report out this week,

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats

Older lawmakers’ foibles and infirmities are coming under new scrutiny, violating an unspoken culture of complicity and coverup.

www.newyorker.com

Feinstein is one of my Senators. She is worthless. I've written her numerous times about important matters and she never responds to what I said. She drifts off into never never land and responds with irrelevant crap.

 

[Thoth001]

i'll be periodically posting the best excerpts

What’s the New Yorker’s excuse for publishing this hit job on Dianne Feinstein?

The New Yorker has a problem, and its name is Jane Mayer. Mayer, a professional peddler of unsubstantiated sleaze, has a banger of a report out this week,

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats

Older lawmakers’ foibles and infirmities are coming under new scrutiny, violating an unspoken culture of complicity and coverup.

www.newyorker.com

I thought that old bag was dead already.

 

[Viktor]

"It was a good question. Feinstein seemed sharp and focussed. For decades, she has been the epitome of a female trailblazer in Washington, always hyper-prepared. But this time, after Dorsey responded, Feinstein asked him the same question again, reading it word for word, along with the Trump tweet. Her inflection was eerily identical. Feinstein looked and sounded just as authoritative, seemingly registering no awareness that she was repeating herself verbatim. Dorsey graciously answered the question all over again.

Social media was less polite. A conservative Web site soon posted a clip of the humiliating moment on YouTube, under the headline “Senator Feinstein just asked the same question twice and didn’t realize she did it,” adding an emoji of someone covering his face with his hand in shame, along with bright red type proclaiming “Time to Retire!!” Six days later, under growing pressure from progressive groups who were already outraged by her faltering management of Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Feinstein released a statement announcing that she would step down from the Democrats’ senior position, while continuing as a non-ranking member of the committee."

Feinstein is a fanatic, obsessed with gun violence. She is arrogant and close minded. Her responses to discussion are often irrelevant.

 

[basquebromance]

"The internal criticism grew more intense this fall over Feinstein’s handling of Amy Coney Barrett. Feinstein had bungled a question about abortion during Barrett’s 2017 appeals-court confirmation hearing, provoking conservative indignation by casting it clumsily as a question about Barrett’s extreme religious beliefs. “Dogma and law are two different things,” Feinstein observed. “The dogma lives loudly in you—and that’s a concern.” The backlash over the question effectively indemnified Barrett from any further questions about how her faith affected her judicial rulings.

According to several sources, Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Minority Leader, was so worried that Feinstein would mismanage Barrett’s confirmation hearings that he installed a trusted former aide, Max Young, to “embed” in the Judiciary Committee to make sure the hearings didn’t go off the rails. He had done the same during Kavanaugh’s confirmation as well. Schumer brought Young in from the gun-control group Everytown to handle strategy and communications and serve as Schumer’s “eyes and ears” on Feinstein, as one Senate source put it. Schumer’s office declined to comment."

 

[Moonglow]

i'll be periodically posting the best excerpts

What’s the New Yorker’s excuse for publishing this hit job on Dianne Feinstein?

The New Yorker has a problem, and its name is Jane Mayer. Mayer, a professional peddler of unsubstantiated sleaze, has a banger of a report out this week,

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats

Older lawmakers’ foibles and infirmities are coming under new scrutiny, violating an unspoken culture of complicity and coverup.

www.newyorker.com

Yep, time to put that mare out to pasture..