The intolerant left is targeting Sen. Dianne Feinstein .
I'm willing to bet you never thought that Senator Dianne Feinstein of California was a Bush-bot. Certainly if you looked at her record you would conclude that she has a pretty consistent liberal voting record in the Senate. The American Conservative Union gave her a ZERO rating . She has voted more liberally than 76.5 % of her colleagues on economic, defense and foreign policy issues, and more than 70 % of senators on social issues, according to National Journal.
So why is she now the target of a Censure motion at the California Democratic Party's executive board meeting??
Was she caught in a bribe or other campaign finance scandal ? No .
Was she playing footsie in a brokeback bathroom stall ? No.
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One day after voting to elevate a divisive conservative judge to the federal appeals court in New Orleans, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the president's guest aboard Air Force One. She had been invited to survey the damage from the recent spate of Southern California wildfires.
The senator later remarked privately that she found her conversation with Bush aboard Air Force One "illuminating," a source close to Feinstein told the Huffington Post.
Two weeks later, Feinstein was one of two Democrats on the Senate judiciary committee to vote to send Michael Mukasey's nomination to be the new attorney general to the full Senate. Her support helped turn the tide in favor of a nomination that faced an uncertain future after Mukasey refused to say whether waterboarding was torture.
When the full Senate voted, Feinstein was one of only six Democrats to vote in favor of confirming Mukasey.
Now, a coalition of progressive Democrats upset with Feinstein's controversial votes will ask the California Democratic Party to censure her at its executive board meeting this weekend, the Huffington Post has learned.
The move comes as Feinstein again finds herself under fire for saying Thursday that she now supports granting legal immunity to telecom companies that shared customer email and phone messages with the federal government as part of the warrantless surveillance program.
"Dianne Feinstein does not listen to the people of California," said Rick Jacobs, president of the Courage Campaign, a progressive organization in California. "She supports George Bush's agenda time after time."
Feinstein's office did not respond to messages seeking comment.
East Bay For Democracy, a chartered Democratic Club outside San Francisco, will introduce the censure motion on Saturday at the state party's executive board meeting in Anaheim. The Governing Board of the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party and the Progressive Democrats of America are also backing the measure.
In addition to her move to back Mukasey, critics have lashed out at her decision last month to vote to confirm Judge Leslie Southwick to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Southwick's opponents charged that his record on the bench in Mississippi demonstrated that he was both racist and homophobic. The Congressional Black Caucus, Human Rights Campaign and People for the American Way opposed his nomination.
Feinstein Faces Dem Censure After Backing Mukasey - Politics on The Huffington Post
LOL is there any more evidence needed that the Democrat party is being taken over by the netroots ? First the evict Joe Leiberman which was bad enough . But now they a gnawing the bones of fellow Democrats who liberal bona fides are well established .
The netroots are on a crusade to purge the party of the un-pure. They set up Working For Us PAC for the purpose of smearing and if possible eliminating via the primary process anyone in the party that doesn't toe the line.
Fortunately for Feinstein she won re-election last year .She will not have to face the next Ned Lamont like challenge. She just has to weather a barrage of code pink type protests;visceral e-mails and an occasional censorship . All for the crime of sitting down with the President and calling the conversation "illuminating." For that she is branded with the scarlet ' B' for Bush-bot.
