[tomder55]

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.

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.

[excon]

Hello tom:

She caved on Mukasey. I'm not a Democrat, but they're right to fry her.

No, the Democrats don't move in lockstep like the Republicans. But, of course, you already knew that.

excon

PS> Maybe he "illuminated" her in his private cabin...

[tomder55]

Lol

When the Republicans feud everyone says the coalition is fracturing . But when the Dems go at it it's OK because they don't walk in lock step. Don't you think that a purge like these netroots have been conducting is an effort to get the Democrats to "walk in lock step ? "

[ETWolverine]

PS> Maybe he "illuminated" her in his private cabin.....

Uh... eeewwwwww!!

Would you go for this...




... when you have this?



I know you don't like Bush, excon. But let's not be personally insulting... there's no reason to question his taste in women.

Elliot

[speechlesstx]

lol

when the Republicans feud everyone says the coalition is fracturing . But when the Dems go at it it's ok because they don't walk in lock step. Don't you think that a purge like these netroots have been conducting is an effort to get the Democrats to "walk in lock step ? "

Don't you love the irony of trying to purge those Dems who don't walk in lock step after all these years of criticizing Republicans for walking in lock step?

[tomder55]

By the time this group is finished Congress will resemble the Politburo

[startover22]

I am so tired of GROUPS, we all need to come together and stop the "power trips"
We as the people need to be in charge, voting isn't really getting us anywhere is it? We all seem to lose with that one... So what is next, and how do we go about it?? I am ready to make a stand!
No more... this group that group B.S... Come together NOW! Sheesh!

EDIT::::
Never mind I just figured out that would be called living in a dream world!

[magprob]

When an an Aristocracy runs the nation, as they do run the United States, they may have either one of two forms of government. An out and out dictatorship or a democracy dictatorship. The latter is our form of government. Republicans and Democrats are just each one half of the pie. Democrats create welfare programs so the masses think they are being taken care of. They all exploit those programs so the aristocracy gets it all back. All in all, the trickle down effect (Cororate welfare state) is working to a certain degree. It really doesn't matter which you vote for. They have already chosen the winner. That is how a very small number of people control a very large number of people.
The recession following the boom (inflation) is taking it all back now. When the dollar is back to being worth more due to deflation, your real wages will have gone up to the point that they can no longer afford to pay you. Lay off time. You are only worth very little in their eyes. Then the inflation will start to rise again and your real wages will go down, making your labor a bargain. As the next boom (inflation) rises, so will the prices of everything on the shelves. More people will be working but at lower real wages and paying more for food, clothes and rent.
Look at it this way, if you have a piece of gold that is worth one dollar and you cut it in half, you have two pieces worth 50 cents each. If you keep cutting the pieces in half, your pieces are woth less and less. That is what happens during inflation when the federal reserve is printing more and more money that is not backed by gold or silver or anything. It becomes almost worthless so it takes more and more to buy anything. That is why oil is up near $100.00 a barrel. Oil is priced in dollars around the globe.
I guess you could say that we never really got out from under the Crown!

[RubyPitbull]

sitting down with the President and calling the conversation "illuminating." For that she is branded with the scarlet ' B' for Bush-bot.

This all could have been avoided if she explained to her constituents why she changed her position instead of just stating the conversation was "illuminating". She had ample opportunity to do so when her office was contacted for comment. But, I guess that is too easy. Startover you are right. Nothing personal guys but I find that both parties are the same in how they manage things. I guess that's why they call it politics. The game has just gotten dirtier, nastier, and crazier over the years. It would be refreshing if these party members would just use some common sense for a change. But as they say, common sense is not all that common.