But she also voted to authorize the Iraq War, a vote drenched in bloodshed based on false pretenses of weapons Iraq didn’t have.
Her generation of California leaders had their time — more than their time. Jerry Brown, who at 80 is five years younger than Feinstein, is stepping aside in months. Barbara Boxer, who was elected to the Senate in the same year as Feinstein in 1992, chose not to run in 2016. Willie Brown Jr., Pete Wilson — powerful politicians who ascended to power in the 1960s and held it for a long time? They have all left the political arena. Feinstein remains.
She is hanging on, likely for the wrong reasons.
“What happens around here, it’s pretty seductive,” Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., told the Washington Post. “The longer you’re here, the more influence that you have. So it causes you to want to stay and stay and stay.”
What happens when you stay anywhere too long? Nothing good.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/07/19/dianne-feinstein-not-who-you-think-she