The Senate's Lions Draw Frustration From Their Cubs

There’s a juicy family squabble brewing among California’s congressional Democrats. It seems Representative Ro Khanna, freshman standard-bearer for Silicon Valley, was less than thrilled when the state’s senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, announced Monday that she would seek another term in office next year.

Quick as a flash, Khanna started talking smack about DiFi via traditional and social media disses, saying the veteran senator is “out of touch with the grassroots” and urging voters to “jettison her” even as she tries to “cling to office as the voice of the status quo.” A vice-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Khanna went so far as to publicly urge Representative Barbara Lee and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich to launch primary challenges to Feinstein from the left. Voters are frustrated, he charged in an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee, “that