{"id":1991852,"date":"2023-08-05T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/end-of-feinsteins-career-gets-nasty-as-she-cedes-power-of-attorney-refuses-calls-to-resign\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T15:07:08","slug":"end-of-feinsteins-career-gets-nasty-as-she-cedes-power-of-attorney-refuses-calls-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/end-of-feinsteins-career-gets-nasty-as-she-cedes-power-of-attorney-refuses-calls-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Feinstein&#8217;s career ends with controversy: she gives up power, rejects resignation demands."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fend-of-feinsteins-career-gets-nasty-as-she-cedes-power-of-attorney-refuses-calls-to-resign%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=1991852&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>End\u2064 of Feinstein&#8217;s Career Gets Nasty as She Cedes Power of Attorney, Refuses Calls to Resign<\/h2>\n<p>When even The \u2064New York\u200d Times \u2064is tacitly admitting\u200c that Sen. Dianne Feinstein\u200d is too\u200d decrepit \u2063to serve in the upper chamber, you \u200dknow \u200bthe gig \u200dis up.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein, a California Democrat, is the\u200d oldest \u2064member\u200c of the Senate and easily the most senescent elected member of a \u2062party that includes President Joe\u200b Biden and Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. Calls for her to\u200b resign due to numerous illnesses and absences \u2064\u2014 as well as the fact she gives off the undisguised, undisguisable air of someone who has zero clue where they are at\u2063 any given moment \u2014 have \u200dgone unheeded, meaning the 90-year-old San Franciscan is playing out the end of \u2064her career\u200b in\u2064 a very public and very ugly way.<\/p>\n<p>The latest embarrassment \u2062for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dianne-feinstein-heard-uttering-4-word-question-aide-helped-wheelchair-worse-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feinstein<\/a> involves \u2062the distribution of her considerable \u2064fortune \u200dafter her passing \u2014 which,\u200b let\u2019s face it, will come sooner rather\u2063 than later. The suit involves a dispute \u2062between Feinstein\u2019s daughter Katherine and three daughters \u2062fathered by her former husband Richard C. Blum, a financier, in a previous relationship.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>In one legal dispute, the family is\u2063 fighting over \u2062what\u2019s \u200bdescribed\u200c as Senator Feinstein\u2019s desire to sell a beach\u2062 house in an \u200dexclusive neighborhood in Stinson Beach, north of San Francisco<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>In another disagreement, the two factions are at odds over access to the \u200dproceeds of Mr. Blum\u2019s life insurance, which Senator Feinstein\u2063 says she needs to pay for her growing medical expenses<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the tone of the piece\u200d by the Times\u2019 Tim Arango and \u200cShawn Hubler played into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-dem-feinstein-returns-senate-gets-car-clear-things-still-arent-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a wider narrative<\/a> about, using their words, the \u201clong and painful\u2063 public drama about [Feinstein\u2019s] health and ability to do \u2063her job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Feinstein, \u206490 and in her sixth term in the Senate, has long \u200dbeen\u2064 in frail health with increasing memory and cognition issues,\u201d the Times noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she returned \u2062to work earlier this year after a monthslong\u200c absence because of \u200cshingles and various complications, her further decline \u2063shocked colleagues. She has relied on a\u2062 cadre of \u2063aides \u200din order to function in the Senate, even \u200cas \u200cshe \u200bhas resisted calls to relinquish her seat before \u2064her term expires after next year\u2019s election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amid that drama is the fight over Feinstein\u2019s finances;\u2064 according to the \u200cTimes, Katherine has power \u2063of attorney over her mother and some \u200dof the lawyers for the other trustees of the\u2063 Feinstein-Blum fortune allege that Katherine, who serves on San \u2063Francisco\u2019s fire commission, is \u201cacting out of personal \u2062interests and not out of those of her mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy clients are perplexed by this filing,\u201d said Steven Braccini, the lawyer representing the trustees. \u201cRichard Blum\u2019s trust has never denied any disbursement to Senator Feinstein, let alone \u200cfor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-had-better-reject-democrats-ndaa-culture-war-if-they-want-any-praise\/\" title=\"Republicans must reject the Democrats' NDAA culture war to earn praise.\">medical\u200c expenses<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the lawsuit filed by the trustees indicates that \u200dKatherine Feinstein hasn\u2019t \u201cmade \u200dit clear, either in\u2063 this filing or directly to my clients, why a sitting\u2064 United States senator would require someone to have\u200b power of attorney\u200c over her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s face facts: We all know the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/end-dianne-feinstein-drops-major-request-dems-cling-slim-majority-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">answer to \u200bthis question<\/a>, even \u200cif it\u2019s \u2062not possible to phrase it that way in court documents.\u200d Since winning her last re-election bid in 2018, \u200bsotto voce concerns about Feinstein\u2019s cognitive capacities have \u200bturned into an \u2063open \u2014 and loud\u2064 \u2014 debate\u200d on whether \u200dshe\u2062 should resign now or \u2062limp to the finish line. Nobody, however, seems to openly question whether or not she\u2019s competent, because she so clearly isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/90-year-old-dianne-feinstein-needed-instructed-staffer-dem-vote-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This scene<\/a> from the Senate Appropriations Committee last week\u2062 accurately sums up just\u2062 how Democrats now view Feinstein: as a barely warm body who delivers the votes they want.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Asked to vote on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-dems-blocking-measure-to-prohibit-imports-made-with-chinese-slave-labor\/\" title=\"Senate Dems Blocking Measure To Prohibit Imports Made With Chinese Slave Labor\">defense appropriations bill<\/a>, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)\u2062 begins\u200c giving a speech: \u200b\u201cI \u2064would like to support a \u2018yes\u2019 vote on\u200b this. \u2063It provides \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. \u2062Patty Murray (D-WA): \u201cJust say aye.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gw2eZ9rEMv\">pic.twitter.com\/Gw2eZ9rEMv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1684592538844364802?\">July 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJust say aye\u201d isn\u2019t a new \u2063Nike\u200c ad.\u2063 Instead, it\u2019s a curt\u2062 (but fair) way to keep grandma from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-fellow-democrats-call-sen-dianne-feinstein-resign-now-dereliction-duty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embarrassing herself yet again<\/a>. Which \u2014\u2062 let\u2019s be honest, that\u2019s exactly where this train\u2063 was headed.<\/p>\n<p>Reports have indicated\u2064 that Feinstein not only struggles to remember her\u200d colleagues and often \u200bconfuses them, she\u2019s gotten to \u200dthe point where she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/feinstein-struggling-basic-senate-tasks-reportedly-confused-vice-presidents-role-chamber\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lacks\u2062 clarity on the vice president\u2019s role<\/a> in Senate votes. (Given that Democrats only have \u200ba slim 51-49 majority \u2014 with two swing votes in Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona \u2014 it\u2019s \u2062a \u200brather outsized role, and one \u2063any educated observer should know, to say nothing of a very experienced senator.)<\/p>\n<p>A 2020 of \u2062Feinstein from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/dianne-feinsteins-missteps-raise-a-painful-age-question-among-senate-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The\u200b New Yorker<\/a>, which quoted several high-placed anonymous\u2063 Democrats, revealed just how serious her struggles were: \u201cThey say her\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brett-favre-encourages-parents-to-keep-kids-away-from-tackle-football-until-age-fourteen\/\" title=\"Brett Favre Encourages Parents To Keep Kids Away From Tackle Football Until Age Fourteen\">short-term memory<\/a> has grown so poor that she often forgets \u200cshe has \u2064been briefed\u200b on a topic, accusing her staff of failing\u200d to do so just after they have,\u201d the outlet\u200d reported. \u201cThey describe Feinstein as forgetting what she has said and getting upset when she can\u2019t keep up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It hasn\u2019t gotten any better in the intervening two-and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-trump-aide-paul-manafort-cant-be-prosecuted-in-new-york-following-pardon-court-rules\/\" title=\"Ex-Trump Aide Paul Manafort Can\u2019t Be Prosecuted in New York Following Pardon, Court Rules\">-a-half years<\/a>. And just in case you needed more evidence that Feinstein\u2019s decline reached a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leading-candidate-california-recall-election-plans-sen-feinstein-worse-mental-condition-even-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/end-of-feinsteins-career-gets-nasty-as-she-cedes-power-of-attorney-refuses-calls-to-resign\/\" title=\"Feinstein's career ends with controversy: she gives up power, rejects resignation demands.\">terminal stage long ago<\/a><\/a>, consider that \u200ca\u2063 sitting\u2062 U.S.\u200d senator needs \u200cher daughter to have power of attorney for her in a\u2064 lawsuit involving the trustees to \u200dher own fortune. Now more than ever,\u2062 it\u2019s \u200cclearly time for \u2063Feinstein to leave the \u2064upper house and \u2062set \u2063her own house \u2063in order \u200dwhile she still has some limited faculties about her.<\/p>\n<p>The post \u200b <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/end-feinsteins-career-gets-nasty-cedes-power-attorney-refuses-calls-resign\/\">End \u200bof\u2064 Feinstein&#8217;s Career Gets Nasty as She Cedes Power \u200bof Attorney, Refuses Calls to Resign<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u2062 Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When The New York Times implies that Sen. Dianne Feinstein is unfit for the upper chamber due to her age, it&#8217;s a clear sign that her time is over. Feinstein, a California Democrat, is the Senate&#8217;s oldest member and the most aged elected official in a party that includes President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":1991853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}