Reply #231: Feinstein's voting record score card [View All]

[Cookie wookie]

109th Congress:
Kennedy Amdt & Education Budget Resolution
Feinstein 50%
Boxer 100%

Confirmation of John Roberts - YES

I heard the Randi program. What I thought about Cindy from the program was this:
She isn't a Democrat or a Republican. Randi even said she's tried to influence Cindy, but no luck. Cindy lost her son and wants to stop the war. She cuts right to the core of every issue. For instance, she said what we all have to at least think, whether we like it or not, that the Democrats who voted for the war knew there were no WMD. What she said was, "We knew," and something like are we supposed to think we knew and they didn't? That is so true. I fight that desire to blind myself to it, but it has to be true.

Cindy has no need to defend any candidates. I was thinking about what she said she's going to do, tie herself to the fence outside the White House and get arrested. She suggested everyone do that in their states. My God! I am not doing that. I'm worried that I would lose my job. Actually I feel I most certainly would lose my job if I missed work because I was in jail. And financially, lawyers, trying to fight convictions in court. She is making an incredible sacrifice for all of us who oppose this war and for all the kids fighting it and for all the innocent people being killed in it. What it tells me, as someone who has experienced the death of a child, is that she has died too, she's lost her life for herself and the cause is the way she survives day to day.

Unless someone is willing to make the sacrifices she is making, who of us has the right to criticize her, in particular when it comes to fears that she'll harm Democrats?

Frankly right now is exactly the time for discussing who should be in and who should get the boot. If we have Democrats who don't serve us, we need to be looking for new candidates to run against them. But actually that would take work by citizens. Maybe it's easier to sit back and defend the indefensible than to get out and throw out of office those who don't live up to the principles on which our nation stands.

In Georgia our democratic party is pathetic, horrible. They weren't even bothering to get behind and fund a viable candidate for secretary of state for the 2006 election. They were just going to let the republican candidate roll into the office (he was the sponsor of the draconian voter id bill in 2005) and take over the diebold electronic voting machine system. But thanks to, in part, the work of one voting activist in georgia who got the attention of a candidate, we now have a viable Democratic candidate in the race, Scott Holcomb, who says he is going to work to get our votes back from diebold:
http://www.scottholcomb.com/

Don't defend bad dems, replace them now, before it's so late that you have to vote for another bad one again because you have no choice.