Congress can start wars, raise and lower taxes, and boot even the president and Supreme Court justices from office.
That’s why it’s beyond insane that Sen. Dianne Feinstein — at 90, the oldest serving lawmaker — is still allowed to play at legislating even after she’s ceded financial power of attorney to her daughter.
Huh?
Feinstein is legally no longer considered competent to manage her own finances, but she somehow still has the mental acuity to disburse trillions of taxpayer dollars?
The California Democrat’s health has long been failing.
Rumors flurry out from her colleagues about mental decline.
A recent bout of shingles hospitalized her and left her convalescing out of Congress for two months.
After her return to “work”?
She’s become completely reliant on staff to help her perform the most basic functions of her extremely important job — and even claimed, in clear confusion, that she hadn’t taken any time off from working at all.
Case in (shameful) point: An aide was recently caught on camera prompting her to “just say aye” on a defense bill appropriating nearly $832 billion.
That alone should have been enough to send her out of office.
But the power-of-attorney fiasco proves it beyond any doubt.
Yes, she has pledged not to run in 2024.
But she needs to go now.
That’s just as true for her much younger but equally impaired colleague, Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, who has no business in the corridors of power.
And hey, we’re nonpartisan on this issue: Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent mid-sentence freeze-up at a presser suggests his health needs close observation.
America has massive problems to deal with at home and abroad.
Like illegal migration, urban crime and disorder, a drug-overdose crisis, the war in Ukraine, rising Middle East tensions and a China bent on hegemony.
Solving these problems requires intense, laserlike focus by all three branches of government.
Not powerful gerontocrats so out of it they can no longer be trusted with their own checkbooks, let alone the country’s.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
