Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Thursday March 9, 2023.

I'm John Pajor, it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor

Aig Greenwald, hi Aig John, media commentary columnist and American enterprise institute senior

fellow Christine Rosen, high Christine, and Washington commentary columnist and American

enterprise institute senior fellow Matthew Kahn, netty high math.

Hi John, you know, there are 100 senators and as of this moment as I am speaking to you,

three of them are in some form of disabee.

So we have we have the news that Mitch McConnell, who is I think 81 years old, took a fall

last night and is in the hospital.

We have the ongoing news that Diane Feinstein, who has announced that she will not be running

for reelection next year, is not in possession of her faculties as therefore not really

a senator, or I guess her staff as a senator.

And of course, John Federman, the freshman from Pennsylvania, who is, has been hospitalized

with a severe case of depression, but you never know that from Annie Carney's absolutely

shocking, shameful, horrifying work of Adam Jentelson propaganda in the New York times

this morning about how just peachy keen everything is in Federman land.

He's handing out suites that other senators are going to him to nurses.

He's hiring junior staffers.

He's writing letters.

He's writing opening statements for the hearing on the Norfolk Southern derailment in East

Palestine.

I mean, this guy, he is a force of nature.

...