Sen Dianne Feinstein's Husband Top Iraq War Profiteer

[lib2DaBone]

http://www.businesspundit.com/the-25-most-vicious-iraq-war-profiteers/



Perini (controlled by financier Richard Blum) is one of the more controversial companies to have scored big-time Iraq war money. That’s because Blum’s wife, Senator Dianne Feinstein, appears to have used her seat on the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee to steer the $650 million environmental cleanup deal in his favor. This has lead to outrage and cries for conflict of interest investigations among those in the media, as well as Feinstein’s peers in Congress. Feinstein has also neglected to comment on this potential conflict of interest. This has lead to what Metroactive.com calls an “omission has called her ethical standards into question.”

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. see? this is the whole problem

the Dems are not any better, just different crooks

[madokie]

2. Well there is a reason for taking impeachment off the table now isn't there

and it sure isn't for shits and grins either. We find ourselves with a majority of our congress critters as liars and thieves, just amazing that.

[lib2DaBone]

21. Corruption is full-time family affair....

It's just amazing. I thought nepotism was bad at my county court house? (Every Aunt-Uncle-Brother and Sister is sucking of the county tax tit at $20 and hour with full benefits). But Washington outdoes them all. Sen Mitch McConnell's wife, Elaine Chao, is Dept of Labor... she is always on Faux-TV shilling for Bush. Sen Phil Gramm's wife is head of the Commodity Future Trading Commission.(It's hard work rubber stamping all those dividend checks into their Swiss Bank Account) And Elizabeth Dole has had her hand in everything from the drug companies to the Red Cross... for years now. I wonder how many other husband/Wife teams we have in Govt that have their own little "enterprises" going on the side? :think:

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. kick

[liberalmuse]

3. Jello warned people about her 20 years ago...

but sadly, they did not listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCPn0l220MY

[mdmc]

9. thanks for that link

[Ahpook]

31. Good link

Thank you. I'm tired of holding my head watching this shit unfold.

Jello:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9-97gZaM-c

[ColbertWatcher]

4. While few Californians will admit to ever having voted for DiFi...

...what she is accused of is run-of-the-mill corruption.

Not excusable, and deserving of an investigation at the very least, but simple corruption nonetheless.

However, it is light years away from what the GOP has done.

[EFerrari]

6. No, it's exactly what they have done. She did it with them.

This is a person that built her career on the murders of Milk and Moscone. And, that's just how she started out.

This is a person who ignored hundreds of thousands of us begging her not to vote for the IWR. What's your constituency when you've got contracts in play.

There's no difference whatsoever.

[ColbertWatcher]

8. We'll just have to disagree then.

Although her career tracks closely to every GOPher, the "get a contract for your spouse" is vastly different than the calculated crap the GOP has pulled on this country the since Reagan's Contract on America.

[EFerrari]

10. That's exactly the Diane Feinstein School of Public Service.

Twins.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. We'll just have to disagree then.

The GOP Party machine is vastly different that what Dean has created for the Democratic Party.

DiFi's corruption pales in comparison.

[PerpetuallyDazed]

22. You're missing the point...

This keeps our congress people from doing their jobs (like proceeding with impeachment hearings and the like) because they can be blackmailed/coerced. THAT is the problem! She is just as culpable as the GOP.

[ColbertWatcher]

23. We'll just have to disagree then.

DiFi is one person; the GOP is a bast network of sleeper cells awaiting orders to do their Party's bidding.

[Breeze54]

5. Isn't she also DLC? --

Makes me want to kick the shit out of something!! :grr:

Hey, CA? Vote her OUT!!!

[rhett o rick]

7. Sorry Charlie, incumbent Democrats get a free ride thru the primaries.

It sure would be nice but the party will support her all the way as well as all the big money.

[Leftist Agitator]

12. Well, that explains why this piece-of-shit hasn't been doing her fucking job.

Congressional Democrats: Very much like Republicans, but not nearly as stupid or hung up on Judeochristian morality.

[bbgrunt]

13. when will we ever learn? all these DINOs are bought and paid for.

[bluesmail]

14. I thought it was Bechtel she was protecting.

[glitch]

26. What, she can't coddle both? nt

[XemaSab]

15. I think he used to be the president of URS

HUGH military contractor, but also one of the more "blue" contractors out there.

[Raster]

16. DiFi's P.R. troupe does a VERY good job of subterfuge...

...but the facts remain. DiFi has not had the priorities of the citizens of California nor the United States front and center for a long time. Look up Military-Industrial Complex tool in the dictionary. You WILL see DiFi's plaster face.

[garybeck]

17. It's time to bring her down (and Pelosi too).

they should have primary challenges. Go Shirley Golub!

[Phred42]

19. Old Diane also supported the Finger print addition to the Houseing BIll

Hey Ca. WAKE UP! Time for her to go.

[DailyGrind51]

20. At least Republicans are candid about not giving a shit for the concerns of average working stiffs!

Democrats say one thing when campaigning, but vote with Republicans.

[barbtries]

24. i despise all war profiteers

feinstein has really lost my respect these past several years. i don't think she's really a democrat, and this makes it clear that her first concern is certainly not her constituents.

[orleans]

25. she's just a dirty little asshole. i've thought so for years. n/t

[varelse]

27. She does not have any ethical standards

and for her to have accepted, let alone used a subcommittee seat that could potentially put her in a conflict of interest situation (as it obviously has) shows that she never did.

[The Doctor.]

28. Man... this is just something you don't ever see today's Republicans do....

Hold 'their own' accountable.

Can you imagine if they did? This nation would be humming like a well-tuned Ferrari.

[dysfunctional press]

29. privatizing day-to-day military support/services legitimized war-profiteering...

if haliburton and kbr can make a buck or two off of war- why can't everyone else...?

[readmoreoften]

30. My fear is that she isn't a DINO but rather what the word "Democrat" has begun to represent.