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Her Daughter has Power of Attorney but somehow she's still a Senator.


https://notthebee.com/article/90-year-old-senator-diane-feinstein-gives-power-of-attorney-to-her-daughter-yet-shes-still-voting-in-the-senate?fbclid=IwAR2Y58_iBJ57-tiNfH7bhllQvUF5N_FPazR0j7mJkfaJsWN5oChQ9N0nSsU

This highlights the problem even further how aging political leaders shouldn't be in office but if you have a family member who has power of attorney over you wouldn't that mean her Daughter could decide she should resign? This is bad.

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This is why there needs to be term limits for Congress.

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It's also why the 17th amendment needs to be repealed. Senators used to be chosen by the state legislatures, and we ought to return to that method. Doing so would have two benefits. The first is that before the 17th amendment was passed, senators acted rather like ambassadors to the federal government from their respective states, and they had a very strong interest in preserving the political power of the states, relative to that of the federal government. As out government was always meant to be federalized, not centralized, this was a good thing. The second thing is that most states -- California these days would be an exception, it's now so deep blue, that this wouldn't help in Feinstein's case, I grant you -- control of the state legislature changes back and forth between parties. This means that since a Republican-controlled state legislature is unlikely to choose a Democrat to be their state's senator, and vice-versa, you won't have as many senators for life, hanging on in office well into their eighties and nineties, as you do under our current system.

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That's not a bad idea but sadly the people that benefit from our government being broken will refuse to make such a change.

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Oh come now, it's not important that she able to debate, rationally consider bills before the senate, articulate a position and try to persuade her colleagues. No, no, that's not important at all. All she has to do is be a warm body in the senate to maintain the Democrat majority, and vote the way Chuck Schumer tells her to. Nothing else matters to the Democrats. Didn't the election of Fetterman make that clear?

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Granted she votes now on how someone tells her to vote. If she retired California would just put in someone who would d the same thing.Lets wait till her term expires and elect a Latino to take her place.

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It's California and I know a Democrat will be replacing her but it's part of the problem with many elderly politicians who have no business being in office at that point of their lives.

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Newsom the commie will only appoint another white person to replace her if she leaves now.

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