Dianne Feinstein - The Worst Peice of Crap in California

[FreakinDJ]

I swear to God - EVERY TIME it really counts this woman drives a stake in the hearts of Califonians

California senator still won't back Obama's healthcare plan

Of course, Feinstein doesn't seem to worry about healthcare costs when they are spent on her career -- the industry is the sixth-largest donor to Feinstein's campaign funds since 2005, contributing over $300,000 according to Web watchdog OpenSecrets.

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Dianne-Feinstein-Dithers-on-Healthcare-Reform-jw.html

[Cleita]

1. Second piece of crap. Arnold is #1. n/t

[FreakinDJ]

3. Rumor has it she going to run for Governor

I will work to make sure she never elected to ANY office ever again

I've had it with this woman.

[Cleita]

4. I will too. I hope Jerry Brown runs against her as he seems to be thinking

about. He will beat her.

[abumbyanyothername]

15. Jerry will crush her.

As will Gavin Newsome.

[tomm2thumbs]

24. Ebay's Meg Whitman would no doubt roll over her

She's got her hands in way too many pockets

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. Where does Jane Harman come in?

She has to be in the top 5.

[Cleita]

12. She is.

Time for her to become an ex congress person too.

[calimary]

40. Time to vote for Marcy Winograd in the 36th district.

http://winograd4congress.com/

[cascadiance]

36. Or Darrell Issa?

The scum that started the recall crap earlier that put Ahnold in, and was a car thief to boot.

Woops! Other party! Funny how you can confuse them sometimes! :)

[cascadiance]

39. Or Ken Starr, Dean at Pepperdine Law School...

http://laist.com/2009/03/05/pepperdine_alumni_not_happy_with_ke.php

[EFerrari]

2. I already don't vote for her and can't dislike her any more. She wins.

:grr:

[spin]

5. Why should politicians be allowed to take donations...

from corporations?

If they could only get donations from voters, we might actually have a government that represents us.

And we see a hell of a lot less political commercials on TV.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. "freedom of speech," and the lawsuit in front of the USSC

may finally make this more than just official

[Cleita]

9. The rich would still dominate the political scene. We need govt. financed

campaigns. Each candidate gets the same amount of money from a pool of taxpayers. That's it, no more.

[spin]

18. That is probably the best solution. (n/t)

[Eric J in MN]

10. They don't get donations directly from corporations. That's illegal.

Instead, they get donations from corporate PACs and from individuals who work at corporations and from lobbyists for corporations.

[MilesColtrane]

17. Well....those are the transactions we know about.

I wouldn't be surprised to find anonymous Swiss accounts, shell corporations, and family member's accounts of 2/3rds of every member of Congress stuffed with dirty, corporate money.

[MrsCorleone]

35. A case before the Supreme Court can change all that this fall.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thom-hartmann/fascism-coming-to-a-court_b_226256.html

Snip from Thom Hartmann's July 6th article:

Fascism Coming to a Court Near You (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission)

"Last year a right-wing group put together a 90-minute hit-job on Hillary Clinton, and wanted to run it on TV stations in strategic states. The Federal Election Commission ruled that the "documentary" was actually a "campaign ad" and thus fell under the restrictions on campaign spending of McCain-Feingold, and thus stopped it from airing. (Corporate contributions to campaigns have been banned repeatedly and in various ways since 1907 when Teddy Roosevelt pushed through the Tillman Act.)

Citizens United, the right-wing group, sued the Supreme Court, with right-wing hit man and former Reagan solicitor general Ted Olson as their lead lawyer.

This new case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, presents the best opportunity for the Roberts Court to use its five vote majority to totally re-write the face of politics in America, rolling us back to the pre-1907 era of the Robber Barons."

[Selatius]

13. Corporations cannot directly donate to politicians though. Their employees can.

Get together 200 managers at a health insurance company to donate the maximum individual amount of $2400 to a particular candidate, say, Diane Feinstein, and you are already looking at $480,000 from just 200 individuals. The process itself is known as "bundling," where one person goes around collecting the donations and then giving it to the candidate.

It is one way a corporation can influence a candidate without directly donating to that candidate.

[spin]

19. Good point...

there always seems to be a way around the law for the powerful and well connected.

[TexasObserver]

7. another faux Democrat

She's terrible.

[hedgehog]

11. Wow! Is this the first time a local news station has compared

her statements to the amount she's getting from lobbyists?

[Cleita]

16. We have been doing this for years at DU. It's starting to bleed into

the media, and I don't mind DINOs like DiFi and Max Baucus being exposed. However, for years we were exposing the Republicans and nobody is doing this. We can't let up on this. Just picking on our own isn't enough. We have to expose the real corporate whores on the right wing side of the aisle too.

[hedgehog]

29. That's what caught my eye. I'm used to seeing info and comments like

this in DU, but apparently this is directly from a news broadcast.

[bridgit]

14. DiFi blows chunks!

:puke:

[katanalori]

20. I am confused - did we make a mistake re Feinstein?

FROM "Stand with Dr. Dean" website"


Sen Barbara Boxer D CA
Supports the choice of public Healthcare option? Yes
Contact information:
Phone: [phone] | Fax: [phone]
Web: http://boxer.senate.gov | Write: http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/email...

Sen Dianne Feinstein D CA
Supports the choice of public Healthcare option? Yes
Contact information:
Phone: [phone] | Fax: [phone]
Web: http://feinstein.senate.gov | Write: http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/in...

http://www.standwithdrdean.com/where_congress_stands?chamber=Senate&party=D&state=&hc_status=&commit=Filter

[FreakinDJ]

23. I think so

check Di-Fi's website - Not 1 work about Health Insurance Reform

and the original post cited a quote from Feinstein opposing Obama's plan

on edit -

After reading from Dean's website it appears I'm wrong or at least I hope I'm wrong

[abumbyanyothername]

25. Her office has not communicated that to me

despite some vitriolic communications.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6331165

[tomm2thumbs]

21. Makes me wonder what Harvey Milk would be saying right about now on this issue

Maybe she has forgotten her roots - which I might add look 'touched up'.

[TahitiNut]

41. "her roots" were as an opponent of Harvey Milk and ally of Dan White

Too many folks forget this in the aftermath of DiFi's exploitation of that tragedy for her political well-being.

[tularetom]

22. Well as long as der titzengroper is around she isn't the worst

But she sure as hell is right up there.

WTF does she need to be in public office for anyway. Her and her husband have already made a brazillion dollars in war profiteering and she's like 112 years old.

She should not be governor. Actually she shouldn't even be a senator anymore.

However if she wanted to move out here and run for sheriff I'd support her. She couldn't be any worse than what we have.

[RB TexLa]

26. Is Charles Manson still alive?

[FreakinDJ]

27. In Diann's basement

[proud patriot]

28. I will call her office every day

[scheming daemons]

30. I'm a spelling Nazi... the word is "piece"

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

31. Google Feinstein and Project Censored

Californians should be embarrassed to have her representing them.

[Winterblues]

32. I was not aware Obama had a plan...

Maybe you could point me to Obama's plan so I could review it and also tell me which part of Obama's Plan she doesn't back. Maybe I don't like that part either..

[DU GrovelBot]

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[Joanne98]

34. DINO.. Throw her off of the intelligence committee.

She's a traitor.

[graywarrior]

37. OMG, she is so two centuries ago.

[Cha]

38. I'll give a Rec'd for not only the worst piece of crap

in Cal(because she's a traitor with a d after her name)but one of the worst pos in the country..her fucking votes affect us all.