Dianne Feinstein Gives Bizarre Answer When Asked About Senate Absence - Rolling Stone
By: Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
Joe is catching up to you DiFi
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The California senator insisted to reporters that she had been present and working in the Capitol
By Nikki McCann Ramirez
View all posts by Nikki McCann Ramirez May 16, 2023 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) attends a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing, May 11, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
Dianne Feinstein claimed she hadn't "been gone" when questioned by reporters on Tuesday about her absence from Congress. The 89-year-old California senator returned to D.C. last week after a months-long medical leave that has raised questions about the state of her health and ability to continue serving in government.
"No, I haven't been gone," Feinstein told a gaggle of reporters when asked about how the first few days following her return had unfolded.
"I haven't been gone. You should … I haven't been gone. I've been working," she added.
When questioned as to whether she meant she'd been working from home, Feinstein reportedly became agitated. "No, I've been here. I've been voting — Please. You either know or don't know," she said before being moved away by staffers pushing her wheelchair.
Feinstein has participated in several votes on the Senate floor since her return but missed more than 50 votes during her leave of absence. As previously reported by Rolling Stone, while concerns over Feinstein's ability to serve the remainder of her term have been in the news recently, her health issues extend back years.
Sources say that staff have long used a system to ensure Feinstein is never unaccompanied within the Capitol. The system was implemented over concerns about what the senator might say to reporters while unattended. Staffers say Feinstein was unaware of the system, which ensures a staffer is always able to accompany her if she leaves her office.
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The pasture awaits. This is sad.......................
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A party led by a senile old man with two Senators mentally unable to perform their jobs. Your 2024 Democrats.
I don't know which is sadder: The guy who left a trio of bankers speechless after asking them questions that nobody could understand or the woman who thinks she has been working in the Senate when she hasn't.
Since the topic is about the probable senility of a lawmaker and the weird comments made by her, then it is on topic for me to suggest that we ALL have our warts, don't we. After all, Marjorie Taylor Greene exposes by her comments her senility at a much less advanced age.
Fuck she needs to retire.
Ok, well, that’s pretty unambiguous and totally wrong. I’m not interested in crapping on her just because she’s old, but that sounds like a person who doesn’t know what’s going on in her own life. That’s something she should not be getting wrong.
The fact is she has been there for a few days and she has been voting. The seeded article does not quote verbatim the question she was asked. The reporter may have intended one thing by the question, and she may have interpreted it as something else. It actually is somewhat ambiguous.
Did you miss the part of the article that states:
I think you missed it because you never read the article.
Is this worse than forgetting that you were in Ireland two weeks ago?
As usual, you missed the point.
I was in Ireland 10 years ago.
Then one of her handlers should have corrected her/him/them
Yes. It’s very different.
Biden didn’t say he’s never been to Ireland. He just got hung up for a second when asked, and a kid volunteered the information before he could come up with it himself. It took a moment.
Now, when regular people go to another country, it’s a big event in their lives. The president is a little different. President Biden has made 13 international trips to 19 different countries in just over two years. He has also visited 18 states - some multiple times. So it’s not weird that it might take him a moment to come up with the last country he visited.
In contrast, Feinstein spent months at home, not doing her Senate duties, while on an official leave of absence. For her to insist that it didn’t happen is pretty extreme.
More like 10 seconds, she spared him additional embarrassment.
Game changer!
All these politicians want to be remembered. Because she has hung on far too long, Feinstein will be more remembered for being that senile old senator than she will be for all her good service to the country.
For many she will be remembered as the Senator who employed the Chinese spy.
Oh to the contrary!
I'll always admire her for causing all those radical nominations to be held up even in a democratic majority Senate.
Yep, don't forget the shining beacon of democracy and tolerance that California has become under her stewardship in Congress.
It's a great place if you want to move into the US or live in the street