Opinion: Feinstein’s health has Newsom in a political trap of his own making
Feinstein, a fixture of California politics for more than a half-century and a U.S. senator for three decades, recently returned to the Capitol after a weeks-long battle with shingles, a very debilitating disease.
However, the critics didn’t miss a beat. They could no longer complain that she was AWOL and thus inhibiting the party’s ability to advance an agenda in the closely divided Senate. But they continued the drumbeat, citing the obvious fact that age and the lingering effects of shingles have worsened the decline of her cognitive abilities.
The continuing demands for her resignation – which she steadfastly insists will not happen – aren’t really about her cognition, but rather her somewhat centrist position on the ideological scale. The progressive left would prefer Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland or, perhaps, Rep. Katie Porter of Orange County. Progressives don’t want Rep. Adam Schiff of Los Angeles, who’s had centrist leanings in the past but is now trying, with little apparent success, to rebrand himself as a progressive.
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