{"id":1940343,"date":"2023-05-29T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T20:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-struggling-with-basic-senate-tasks-reportedly-confused-on-vice-presidents-role-in-chamber\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T16:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T20:52:16","slug":"feinstein-struggling-with-basic-senate-tasks-reportedly-confused-on-vice-presidents-role-in-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-struggling-with-basic-senate-tasks-reportedly-confused-on-vice-presidents-role-in-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Feinstein struggling with Senate tasks, reportedly confused about VP&#8217;s role."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffeinstein-struggling-with-basic-senate-tasks-reportedly-confused-on-vice-presidents-role-in-chamber%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1940343&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Even The New York Times is Blowing the Whistle on a Democratic Lawmaker<\/h2>\n<p>When even The New York Times is blowing the whistle on a Democratic lawmaker, the rest of the country should be listening.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-says-fetterman-has-squandered-credibility-over-health-urges-democrat-to-release-medical-records\/\" title=\"WaPo Says Fetterman Has \u2018Squandered Credibility\u2019 Over Health, Urges Democrat To Release Medical Records\">reliably liberal newspaper<\/a> has built a readership on running interference for Democrats who get in trouble \u2014 most famously for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-york-times-quietly-updates-report-calling-hunter-biden-laptop-story-unsubstantiated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covering up<\/a> the self-evident corruption of the Joe Biden presidency.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So when it publishes a damning piece that basically accuses a prominent senator of operating as a puppet for her staff, it\u2019s a good chance the situation is even worse for the American public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Feinstein&#8217;s Dependence on Staff Members<\/h3>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/28\/us\/politics\/feinstein-senate-staff.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lengthy article<\/a> by Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni published Monday describes what amounts to an influential lawmaker who is utterly dependent on unelected staff members.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dianne-feinstein-heard-uttering-4-word-question-aide-helped-wheelchair-worse-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Sen. Dianne Feinstein<\/a>. And it\u2019s a picture no American should accept.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey push her wheelchair, remind her how and when she should vote and step in to explain what is happening when she grows confused,\u201d Karni wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They \u201cremind\u201d her how to vote? That\u2019s a polite way of saying the men and women around Feinstein \u2014 not the senator herself \u2014 are making decisions about the country\u2019s tax money, its national defense, its border security and the countless other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feinstein-struggling-with-basic-senate-tasks-reportedly-confused-on-vice-presidents-role-in-chamber\/\" title=\"Feinstein struggling with Senate tasks, reportedly confused about VP's role.\">issues federal lawmakers<\/a> have in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>And as far as a staff that needs to \u201cstep in to explain what is happening when she grows confused,\u201d that sounds like it happens a good deal more than even Democrats who support the doddering Biden in the White House should be comfortable with.<\/p>\n<p>In one case the Times report described, Feinstein didn\u2019t understand why Vice President Kamala Harris had returned to the upper chamber to cast a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-dems-will-pass-covid-relief-bill-with-or-without-gop\/\" title=\"Schumer: Dems will pass COVID relief bill with or without GOP\">tie-breaking vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat is she doing here?\u201d the senator asked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While conservatives might have the same question in a broad sense \u2014 <em>what <\/em><em>is<\/em> Harris doing in the vice presidency anyway? \u2014 the context shows Feinstein, a veteran of the Senate since 1992, didn\u2019t remember that a basic rule of the body is that a tie vote can only be broken by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">vice president<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the kind of thing you\u2019d think might stick after 30 years or so.<\/p>\n<h3>Feinstein&#8217;s Staff Shielding Her from Reporters and Photographers<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s more \u2014 like how staffers try to shield Feinstein from reporters and photographers and how her office runs essentially on autopilot.<\/p>\n<p>But all of it is haunting \u2014 and considering it\u2019s The New York Times essentially attacking its own political party, it\u2019s illuminating in illustrating not only Feinstein\u2019s problems but the Times\u2019 choice of targets.<\/p>\n<h3>Feinstein and Fetterman&#8217;s Incapability to Fulfill Their Duties<\/h3>\n<p>Democrats have a one-vote majority in the Senate now, thanks to 48 Democratic senators and three independents who caucus with the Democrats (Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Maine Sen. Angus King and Arizona Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-report-showcases-just-tense-things-gotten-sinema-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyrsten Sinema<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>One of those Democratic votes is Pennsylvania\u2019s John Fetterman, a man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/john-fettermans-office-using-dirty-trick-cover-struggling-senator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">still clearly debilitated<\/a> from a stroke he suffered in May 2022 (yet who somehow still got elected, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hammer-fetterman-debate-disaster-reveals-democratic-hypocrisy-medias-shame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bless those Pennsylvania Democrats<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Another, of course, is Feinstein \u2014 a woman who all evidence suggests is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-dem-feinstein-returns-senate-gets-car-clear-things-still-arent-good\/\">completely incapable<\/a> of fulfilling the duties of a United States senator.<\/p>\n<p>Sensible Americans wouldn\u2019t trust either one to boil water without worrying about the house burning down, but they essentially comprise the Democratic majority in the upper chamber of Congress.<\/p>\n<h3>The Times&#8217; Choice of Targets<\/h3>\n<p>The Times hasn\u2019t gotten around to an honest appraisal of Fetterman yet \u2014 a piece Karni <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/09\/us\/politics\/fetterman-senate-walter-reed.html?searchResultPosition=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote in March<\/a> took on a noticeably upbeat, cheerful tone, considering her subject was in hospital being treated for clinical depression.<\/p>\n<p>In all likelihood, that\u2019s because Pennsylvania is a battleground state \u2014 Fetterman might have lost had the Republican candidate not been television celebrity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/video-dr-oz-covid-trump-rethinking-endorsement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Mehmet Oz<\/a> \u2014 while solidly blue California is a safe seat for Democrats regardless of who is running.<\/p>\n<p>(It\u2019s so safe that even a parasitic leach such as Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/even-msnbc-calls-adam-schiff-shameful-reaction-trump-indictment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Schiff<\/a> is a virtual lock to win it on Feinstein\u2019s retirement if he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/adam-schiff-eyeing-us-senate-seat-isnt-one-vicious-succession-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wins the Democratic primary<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The Times can come clean safely about Feinstein knowing full well that her presence or absence won\u2019t change the balance of power in the Senate. (It would just make her staff a good deal less powerful.)<\/p>\n<p>So the so-called newspaper of record doesn\u2019t get any props for committing journalism when it comes to Feinstein.<\/p>\n<p>From a political point of view, it\u2019s a wash.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But it\u2019s still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/erickson-a-moment-for-jim-demint\/\" title=\"ERICKSON: A Moment For Jim DeMint\">worth paying attention<\/a> to for the rest of the country. Because when the Times is sticking a fork in a Democratic lawmaker, it means she\u2019s done.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/feinstein-struggling-basic-senate-tasks-reportedly-confused-vice-presidents-role-chamber\/\">Feinstein Struggling with Basic Senate Tasks, Reportedly Confused on Vice President&#8217;s Role in Chamber<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times exposes a Democratic lawmaker, it&#8217;s worth paying attention. 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