If you’re feeling deprived of irony, watch the spectacle of the vicious attacks on Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
It’s a priceless example of the left eating its own and demonstrates how nasty it is — even when a fellow Democrat is on the menu.
President Biden should also pay special attention.
The merciless effort to drive the ailing Feinstein out of office and into retirement could prove to be a dry run for a demand that an aged, declining Biden also get out of the way during a second term.
Feinstein, 89, has been absent from the Senate since mid-February and was later diagnosed with shingles and hospitalized in California.
When she was released in early March, aides promised she would be back in Washington within weeks.
Citing “complications,” they now offer no timetable for the return of Feinstein, who has been in the Senate for 30 years.
Shingles is not her only problem or even the biggest one to her tormentors.
Her original sin was to praise and hug GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham in October of 2020 after the final Judiciary Committee hearing on the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.
The left reacted with wild outrage and calls for her to quit the committee came instantly from activists as well as from formerly sensible scholars Norman Ornstein and Harvard’s Laurence Tribe.
Although Feinstein voted against Barrett’s confirmation, the rabble still wanted blood and The New Yorker was soon painting a picture of a senator losing her marbles.
The magazine reported that Democratic colleagues were trying to convince her to step down after “concerning” episodes, including in a hearing where she asked a witness the same question twice.
Later, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that associates said the senator’s memory was fading and that she was having trouble recognizing colleagues and following conversations.