Calmes: A bad week for Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein, leaders of Washington's gerontocracy (via latimesopinion )
Here’s one reason Sen. Feinstein’s absence is drawing unusual attention: She is missed, badly. Democrats hold just a 51-49 Senate majority, so every vote is crucial.On Friday, his office — like Feinstein’s, so stingy with information about the senator’s condition — issued athat McConnell will finish his term as minority leader through 2024. It did not say whether he’d seek an eighth six-year term in 2026.
Republicans like to falsely describe Biden as senile, but his stammers and gaffes are hardly what we saw from the two senators. It seemed almost voyeuristic to watch their distress. Yet it’s also maddening, given that either might have — should have — retired before now. When a clerk in the Senate Appropriations Committee began the roll call of senators to vote on a defense bill, there was five seconds of silence after she called “Feinstein.” Then Feinstein said only “Umm.” Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, sitting next to her, prompted, “Say aye.”News Analysis: It’s not just Feinstein. McConnell episode highlights age, vulnerability of U.S. leaders
Feinstein said only, “Yeah. Uh.” Again, Murray told her, “Just say aye.” Instead, Feinstein read a prepared statement about the bill until an aide came and whispered in her ear. Poor Murray, the committee chair, tried a third time: “Just say aye.” Finally Feinstein snapped to, loudly saying “Aye!”again had to be correctedMcConnell that day came to a mic outside the Senate chamber to update reporters on the legislative state of play, as is routine.
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