I say let’s keep the pressure on because she may vote to give immunity to the Telecoms…

CA Dianne Feinstein (202) 224-3841 (202) 228-3954

Hahaha! Why is there doubt behind those words?

DiFi is EVERYTHING that is wrong with America.
Goddamn these two faced Bush enabling scum.

If only Jello Biafra could have replaced her as Mayor of SF back in the day...

5 John Amato Says:
She will vote in favor of the Telecoms…My bad…

Domo arigatou, Mr. Amato. (Sorry! Just had to get that out of my system!) =)

Feel better, lynnianaa? :)

AquaVelvaMan @ 6:

If only Jello Biafra could have replaced her as Mayor of SF back in the day...

Might have killed her career before it started, among other things. Recall time.

We, as a nation, as being played as fools.

As you were.

Telecom immunity should never be on the table. They can use whatever excuse they want, but they broke the law. Saying that they should be immune from prosecution because bush told them to do it is like saying Joe Sixpack, who murdered his wife, should be immune from prosecution because his girlfriend told him to do it. The other excuse is that it will cost the telecom companies so much money for trials. Boo fucking Hoo!!!

“I’m concerned that party employees don’t want to hear from party members,” Jacobs said. “I think such statements send a message that is very simple: that we will make the decisions and you shut up and do as your told.”

This is exactly right.

“I’m concerned that party employees don’t want to hear from party members,” Jacobs said. “I think such statements send a message that is very simple: that we will make the decisions and you shut up and do as your told.”

We are Democrats, not Republicans.

We don't need big mother to tell us what to do.

We can think for ourselves, thank you!

Why is it that every time a large number of citizens take time to let politicians know what issues are important to them, it's labeled a "distraction". What patronizing tools these people are.

Well I wouldn't expect anything else from the democrats we've got right now. Gutless, spineless wonders.

http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/moveon sign on if you want

How she can call herself a Democrat is beyond me.Don't be surprised if she pulls a Lieberman

Dianne Feinstein and her husband are despicable San Francisco slumlords and always have been. What do you expect?

kindness @ 19:

DiFi - Karma is gonna get you. I voted for you and I'm kicking myself now.

You suck. Do the honorable thing and resign now.

I've been sending her emails for about a year now asking her to save this country by resigning so we can get someone in her job who will actually represent the people that she is supposed to "serve".

I've never gotten a response.

Not a surprise.

Lieberwoman.

"It is going to be thrown out and rejected," said Bob Mulholland, a veteran party strategist in Sacramento. "Sometimes people can't anticipate or can't understand the big picture."

Yes, children, let the grown-ups decide what is right for you. WE have the big picture, umm, pass that cocktail weenie would you?

isn't there a way to recall the pig? or do we need a piece of crap like Issa to fund it?

Like "ronik" posted, I've sent her hundreds of e-mails complaining of her lack of listening to the people. I've yet to to get a reply. I'd like to see censure or recall. Bless the folks who camp out on her and Pelosi's front lawn. They are true patriots.

Roger Salazar of the California Democratic Party:

"This party supports our Democratic senator and will continue to do so," said party communications director Roger Salazar. "Period."

Translation:

Be gone with you, Riffraff. We will tell you what is best for you. Your leaders have spoken.

bilhelm-X @ 43:

I agree, ditch that bitch. Senator hairdon't, we're all out of Aquanet!

Unfortunately, we can't. There are no provisions for recall of a Federal representative.

Was watching the local news the other night here in NC.
Apparently in Fayetteville preferential treatment was made for a man involved and culpable for it-by the police. The victim, I believe was the one charged ultimately.

At the most recent city council meeting there-citizens WENTOF on the council and wanted censure of the councilmemebr which failed.
They did however, get the council to agree to an independent council or investigation into it's own actions.
While some may think this is the "fox guarding the henhouse"-perhaps in such cases-citizens can do independent unpaid work on such investigations to get to the bottom of such cronyism.

Perhaps this could be an option for the California Democrats unhappy with DiFi.

pissed off patricia @ 7:

of course she'll vote to give immunity to telecoms. it's something she shouldn't do so she'll do it. are we sure she isn't lieberman in drag? i swear, why do people like her even call themselves dems?

more like the fact that she and her hubby made millions from defense contracting, so, tho it's not exactly the same industry, i still think it's peter principle-type logic at work here...she won't screw the billionaire corporations doing government defense work, because she does work with billionaire corporations doing government defense work.

i say recall her ass, and the rest of her too.

I'm totally pissed with DiFi and the Dem party.. Yet I can't go repub.... I'd just as soon gouge my own eyes out first... All I can say at this point regarding the official party line to not support censure of DiFi which while as a practical matter is little more than a symbolic fuck you lady, would nontheless put her on notice officially that she pissed off her voters. You people of the CA Dem officialdom are plainly cowards!...Gutless cowards!!!!

As for granting the telcoms immunity.. I don't have the words to describe my outrage but I am considering telling ATT&T to just turn my line off, ripping my phone of the wall and pitching it thru the nearest ATT&T office window with a sincere fuck you note...
The idea of gving them even one more penny for a phone line makes me want to bash my phone to pieces with a ballpeen hammer at this point.

Overall, pretty much a near perfect way to ruin the dem party prospects going forward into the future.. Maybe this might be the impetus to get a grass roots ligitimate third party going...I don't know if that constitutes a plus or not.... Disgusting, just totally disgusting.................JD

justcurious @ 49:

Thank god for crooks and liars.

Incredible as it may sound, this blog seems like its one of the few accurate sources of news coming out of your country today.

Sadly, your statement doesn't sound incredible. We've lived with the lying MSM for so long, blogs like C&L are pure gold.

Jack Damage @ 50 "I'm totally pissed with DiFi and the Dem party."

The Democratic CONGRESS will tomorrow vote on FISA RESTORE, which has NEVER contained an offer of immunity for past or future telecom crimes. Raw Story:

The [House] bill, which will be voted on later Thursday, does not include a provision to grant legal immunity to telecommunications companies that the Bush administration has demanded and it restores the role of the FISA court in approving surveillance methods used by the National Security Agency that could ensnare Americans.

I could wait another decade for anyone to notice that the House, contrary to what was printed here, and roostered from the housetops by Glenn Greenwald, the House has never offered immunity for those crimes, and is not going to tomorrow either.

Will the Speaker and the rest of the House leadership (especially Chairmen Conyers and Reyes) EVER get any credit for doing the right thing?

They will not. The Dem-bashing will continue, because scapegoating at least provides for a focus of an anger that really needs to be applied to the media and the R party, with an intensity that leftists exempt themselves from. FAR EASIER to lump the two parties together, ignore and downplay Dem accomplishments, and pretend to third party movements which will STILL only represent a fraction of ten percent of the country next year, regardless of how much the pretense of nay-voting on passing bills makes their followers feel like heroes.

Paul in L.A.

I just heard the FISA bill passed without the telcom immunity partion... I don't know how many people got on their knees or what kind of arm twisting or not went on.. But for just this one moment, and given all the rest of the bad news lately... I'm gonna enjoy this tiny little victory for the right to privacy for all U.S. citizens and the idea that those telcoms who engaged in this henous practice still have to sweat the load... I think you and I can both say yah us, yah America, at the same time... At least in this instance... I'm still disgusted with Difi, but I think you and I are on the same page on that one anyway....JD

Jack Damage @ 56 "I just heard the FISA bill passed without the telcom immunity partion."

The Senate so far as I know has not voted on it yet.

The House bill which I think you're hearing about, NEVER HAD ANY IMMUNITY IN IT.

Oh, I see, the amendment was stripped to get it out of committee without Senator Dodd's blocking it.

Feinstain will be right back with the amendment on the Senate floor, which will most likely pass.

This is only a temporary victory, but good show nonetheless.

ronik @ 32:

kindness @ 19:

DiFi - Karma is gonna get you. I voted for you and I'm kicking myself now.

You suck. Do the honorable thing and resign now.

I've been sending her emails for about a year now asking her to save this country by resigning so we can get someone in her job who will actually represent the people that she is supposed to "serve".

I've never gotten a response.

Not a surprise.

I'm with you, ronik. I've been sending regular emails, and even a printed letter via the USPS, and haven't heard back. I wasn't even pushing her to resign, just to do her job. I finally had it and called the local (SF) office to find out what her position was on telecom immunity (this was a while ago), and I got the brush off, a fair amount of condescension, and then they hung up on me. I didn't say "bitch", "traitor", or "go fuck yourself" even once.

If anybody thinks she or the CA Democratic Party give half a shit about what we think, you are seriously deluded, and I'd like to try some of the drugs you're on.

L.A. Confidential @ 17:

Corporations have become the downfall of America. Unbridled greed.

That about says it all.

Otay @ 42:

Roger Salazar of the California Democratic Party:

"This party supports our Democratic senator and will continue to do so," said party communications director Roger Salazar. "Period."

Translation:

Be gone with you, Riffraff. We will tell you what is best for you. Your leaders have spoken.

Silence whippersnapper! The great and powerful Oz has spoken! Pay no attention to that hag behind the curtain!

“I’m concerned that party employees don’t want to hear from party members,”

There! I fixed it!

The Bush administration has done a good job in redeeming political payback (favors from political colleages that has profitted from their War-Time ventures). In many cases, almost anything bush asked for. This is the political capital that Bush spoke about during his enagural ceremony. Bush said that during his presidency he said: " I intend to spend it (referring to his political capital/mandate).

In this case Dianne Feinstein has to payback favors the Bush Administration (from inside tips of multi-billion dollars war-profitting through investment in in the war in IRAQ).

It has been known Dianne Feinstein and her husband, Richard C. Blum, made out tons of money from the Iraq war the same way that Dick Cheney and Bush Administration.

It was an insider tip that got their friends to profit from stock profits, etc.

Blum's business Perini Corp, like KBR/Halliburton/Blackwater/GE/Bechtel has been awarded BILLIONS dollars worth of contracts in the war in Iraq.

Our elected officials was suppose to be the gatekeepers and does the oversight from these abuses; itstead we learn that they used these power mainly for their personal enrichment.

Dianne Feinstein was able to do damage control when this was found out by censuring the mainstream media from disclosing these facts from the general public. Since Bush administration is well connected to the mainstream media and wall street; it was evidently easier to manage "DAMAGE CONTROL" for Dianne Feinstein political follies.

It is no surprise to me if many more of our elected officials (repub and dems) are all in it for the same game. WE just have NOT YET discover it for now.
WE THE PEOPLE must continue to keep a close eye on them. FOLLOW THE MONEY..........auditors.

To censure Dianne Feinstein is merely a slap on the hand and would only slow down the abuse and encourage the corrupt to be more careful from getting caught.

The first clue to any corruption is the elected officials senseless VOTE that contradict their party platform and their VOTING HISTORY. The second, the financial backing for their campaign and the background of the campaign contributors. Third the flow of money and the sudden increase of the elected official's wealth and investment portfolios.

A perfect example and a questions we must asked ourselves:

How did the Clintons become an instant multi-millionaires being President for only two terms at a modest salarly paid to a PRESIDENT? Investment portfolio? perhaps through insider tip on stock investments and kickbacks for government contract deals. Money from foreign allies hidden in off-shore and foreign accounts.

Who pays for these deals executed by our elected officials? WE THE PEOPLE......through TAX COLLECTION. Our collective pool of tax dollars in FEDERAL TREASURY ACCOUNT is the one biggest holder of our funds that elected officials squander to pay for business deals that enriches corporations like Halliburton through no-bid contracts. Account that is in the control of our government officials. The LOSES from abuses and the looting of our tax dollars becomes the PEOPLES LOSES.

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