Molly Jong-Fast: calls for Dianne Feinstein to resign not sexist or ageist

California senator absent for weeks as Democrats and progressives eye effect on pace of confirmations of liberal judges

Calls for Dianne Feinstein to resign from the US Senate because of ill health are not sexist or ageist, a prominent liberal columnist argued, as debate over the California Democrat's absence continued.

I don't think it's those things," Molly Jong-Fast, a podcaster and Vanity Fair columnist, told MSNBC. Sure, there have been senators who have stayed too long on the right and the left, female and male. This is not even an issue of staying too long. This is an issue of just not being in the office to take the votes you must take."