Sen. Dianne Feinstein turns 90 next year, at which point she will be in the penultimate year of her fifth Senate term. Finally, years after the rest of the press was privy to an open Washington secret, Feinstein’s colleagues have ramped up the pressure to force her out.

Feinstein, multiple Hill sources told the San Francisco Chronicle, is “rapidly deteriorating,” often unable to recognize colleagues in the chamber or recall conversations she just had. The only shocker is that Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the opposite chamber of Congress, stuck her neck out to protect one of her own.