Jan 6th, 2009 at 10:04 am
A Look Back
Dianne Feinstein doesn’t oppose all initiatives coming from newly elected presidents. Here, for example, is her statement in praise of George W. Bush’s 2001 tax cuts.
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January 6th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Yes. As is being discussed all over the blogosphere this morning, she’s pretty loathsome. Some other commenter on some other blog I browsed in the last hour (I forget where) described her as “more or less a dedicated Republican,” which sounds about right to me.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:21 am
can Californians stop electing this horrible human being?
January 6th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Some other commenter on some other blog I browsed in the last hour (I forget where) described her as “more or less a dedicated Republican,” which sounds about right to me. ancak birde söyle bişey var arkdaslar Antalyaspor – Trabzonspor maçının gollerini izlemek için tıklamanı lazım buyrun saygılarımla
January 6th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Hey Matt, you might want to ban this makkale fellow.
He seems to just copy other peoples’ comments and affix links to obscure websites to them.
Seems like a spam bot.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Of course she approved of those tax cuts … shes rich bitch!
January 6th, 2009 at 10:41 am
One aspect of Obama’s election that has been encouraging has been the appointment of long-serving congress critters to administration posts making room for new blood in the party. As much as I support people like Dodd, Durbin, Kerry, etc. isn’t it time for someone younger to have their seat? The best people will not want to go into politics if there is no path upwards. Appoint Feinstein to something and get her out of the Senate so Californians can elect someone new. Ambassador to Indonesia sounds good.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Sigh.
Well, if you’re really determined to dig up the dirt on Feinstein, Matthew, then how about this?
From a November 3 , 2003 conference on IRaq Intel at the COuncil on Foreign Relations — DF = Senator Dianne Feinstein
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“DF]: Let me tell you exactly how I feel. I was one of the 77 members of the Senate that voted to authorize use of force.
[KA]: Right.
[DF]: It was my first vote in what was effectively a declaration of war, and I took it very seriously. And I went back, and I read both the classified and unclassified version of the National Intelligence Estimate and tried to reread some of the intelligence. And I drew from that that there was an imminent threat.
[KA]: Right.
[DF]: And it was really on that basis that I can truthfully say that’s why I voted. I did not vote for regime change. I voted because I sincerely believed that this man, with his background, with his use of poisonous materials on his own people, with his feudal needs, was a threat, certainly in the Middle East and even quite possibly to us, in terms of being able to smuggle things into this country. ”
Ref: http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=6495
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Republicans used the above to argue that if Dianne Feinstein could make this mistake, then why not George W Bush?
January 6th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Appoint Feinstein to something and get her out of the Senate so Californians can elect someone new. Ambassador to Indonesia sounds good.
How about NATO?
I also hear that Commerce has a slot available.
I like this idea.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I see Jane Hamsher has a post laying out my thoughts much better than me and with links.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:01 am
The primary reason that the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk is better than the film Milk is that the documentary gives a pretty thorough picture of just how loathsome and counter-progressive Dianne Feinstein is.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Wow. I didn’t realize how pathetic she was. She is from California she could be much more progressive. Voting for Bush’s tax cuts was a good plan for senators from Georgia or Louisiana, but what the hell was Dianne Feinstein doing voting for that?
January 6th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Senator Feinstein Introduces Condoleezza Rice at
Secretary of State Nomination Hearing
January 6th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Re Dianne Feinstein
Actually, I hear rumors that Senator Feinstein is planning to run for Governor of California in 2010.
Re Don Williams
Gee, Mr. Williams doesn’t like Dianne Feinstein. What a surprise, given her ethnic background.
January 6th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Re SLC’s comment “Gee, Mr. Williams doesn’t like Dianne Feinstein. What a surprise, given her ethnic background. ”
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Actually, I defended Senator Feinstein in an earlier thread –pointing out that she tried to do the right thing in Sept 2002 and that she was far less of a craven sell-out to the Israel Lobby than a lot of Gentiles in the Democratic Caucus.
She joined Bob Graham in pushing the Bush Administration to have the Intel Community draw up a NIE on the Iraq threat, for example.
See http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/01/27014.php#comment-989246 and
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/01/27014.php#comment-989254
January 6th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Actually, I hear rumors that Senator Feinstein is planning to run for Governor of California in 2010.
I keep seeing it bandied about on Swing State Project that she’d be a shoo-in if she ran, but I’m not buying it. First of all, she’ll be 77 years old in 2010. You can be 100 years old casting votes on the Senate floor, but running a state of 38 million people is another question. Second of all, the bench in California has gotten pretty big. We’ve got a whole slew of Congressmen or -women, state legislators, big-city mayors, Jerry Brown, etc. It’s not like she’s the only chance the Democrats have.
She may be a U.S. Senator, but if it’s one of her vs. a whole bunch of moderate-to-liberal Democrats, no way they’re all going to bow down to her in the primary.
January 6th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Re Don Williams
Maybe that’s because she’s only 1/2 Jewish.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I was all excited in 92 when California elected two women Senators. Over time however I have come to hate Dianne Feinstein with the heat of a thousand white hot suns. She is loathsome.
January 6th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Re bobbo
What else does Mr. bobbo expect from a former mayor of San Francisco?
January 6th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Anybody who knew Feinstein when she was mayor of San Francisco would have known she’d make a lousy Senator.
She’s the most corrupt politician since Hermann Goering.
And SLC, that’s not because she was from San Francisco, it’s because she is owned and operated by PG&E.
Anybody who thinks that she is “progressive” just because she is from this state and city simply is clueless.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
SLC:
You may very well be right about Mr. Williams’ motivations, but I should note that DiFi gives non-anti-Semites plenty of reasons to not like her.
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