Dianne Feinstein, Joe Biden show why we need age limits for politicians

Does it shock anyone, really, to learn that 88-year-old veteran US Sen. Dianne Feinstein is exhibiting signs of dementia?

I’ll brace for angry emails from readers who still have landlines, dial-up modems and AOL addresses in making this argument: We’re long overdue for age limits on our legislators.

Commercial airline pilots are forced to retire at age 65. Air traffic controllers must retire at age 56.

Yet we have a 79-year-old in the White House who, on any given day, thinks that his VP is his wife, or that his wife is his sister and his sister is the first lady, or that Michelle Obama is the vice president or that Barack Obama is Donald Trump and vice versa.

So easy to get the latter two confused, isn’t it?

When asked how he’d handle a dispute with his actual vice president, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden told CNN, “I will develop some disease and say I have to resign.”

Wonder where he got that idea?

A recent Politico/Morning Consult poll found that 48% of Americans are concerned about Biden’s mental fitness.

So are some of his own staffers, who, according to a September 2021 Politico report, either mute or turn off his live press conferences — so alarmed are they by the inevitable next malapropism or false claim or thought to nowhere or near-catastrophic foreign policy bungle.

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