DISQUS

GottaLaff · 2 years ago

Yes!!!!

And sorry for stepping on this one.

John Ehrenfeld · 2 years ago

Feinstein is an embarassment to Progressives everywhere and she looks more and more like Joe Lieberman every day.

* She supported the Iraq war resolution in the vote of October 11, 2002;

* Senator Feinstein was the original Democratic cosponsor of a bill to extend the Patyriot Act.

* In May 2007, Feinstein voted for an Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill, which continued to fund the Iraq occupation without firm timetables for withdrawal.

* In August 2007, Feinstein joined Republicans in the Senate in voting to modify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

* Feinstein voted to give the attorney general and the director of national intelligence the power to approve international surveillance of the communications of Americans entirely within the executive branch.

* Feinstein is a supporter of capital punishment.

* She was the main Democratic sponsor of the failed 2006 constitutional Flag Desecration Amendment.

She does not represent the views of the majority of her constituents and should be ashamed of herself.

addy · 2 years ago

Good. There's something really fishy going on there.

Visitor · 2 years ago

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area so Diane Feinstein has been a political heavyweight well known to me for a long while. In another era, she would have been seen as a moderate capable of dialogue with moderates across the aisle in the search for compromise that has historically been essential to governance. If she doesn't represent precisely my more progressive values, I've appreciated the role she has played in the past. Unfortunately, it has been a long time since real comity prevailed in the halls of Congress. Republicans embraced wedge politics and pursued a strategy of slash and burn that has driven both parties away from the center. In this new environment and heightened awareness of the likelihood one will be knifed in the alley, politicians who compromise appear suspect to partisans. I doubt Senator Feinstein will run again at an advanced age, so perhaps the best we can do is live with her for a few more years. Sadly, politics has become such a crass exercise it is difficult to engage seriously. I'm enough of a student of history that I have no illusions this great American experiment is guaranteed to continue forever. I've thought often over the last eight years that the arc of this divisive, increasingly dysfunctional struggle for power could easily lead to fascism. The right is far more adept at mobilizing the pseudo patriots required to implement the politics of fear than is the left to motivate those whose politics are based on hope.

Ron · 2 years ago

I live in the Bay Area ...There are alot of people here who pay attention....If we are smart and, i know we are ,this will be Diannes' last seat as a congresswoman, ....I couldn't stand her when she was mayor of S.F. Now her covers are blown if you know what i mean ...