Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict

[ieffinhatecardio]

Here's a headline from the article.

As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms.

As chairperson and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) from 2001 through the end of 2005, Feinstein supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction projects. Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader of this powerful subcommittee.


http://www.metroactive.com/feinstein/

[OzmO]

Here's a headline from the article.

As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms.

As chairperson and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) from 2001 through the end of 2005, Feinstein supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction projects. Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader of this powerful subcommittee.


http://www.metroactive.com/feinstein/

Washington is just such a greasy rub your back and rub mine place isn't it?

[ieffinhatecardio]

Washington is just such a greasy rub your back and rub mine place isn't it?

Yes, it's sickening to see. Feinstein was so brazen that she actually voted on contracts that her husband was involved in. She helped make him huge sums of money.

I heard about this last night while waiting in the car for my gf's flight to arrive, it was either Michael Savage or Laura Ingraham, I chose Savage for entertainment purposes. Turns out he had something relevant to say. Who would have known. 

[240 is Back]

Turns out he had something relevant to say. Who would have known. 

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[ieffinhatecardio]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Or in this case a paranoid nutjob. 

[24KT]

I've never trusted that woman since learning of her mayorlty race in San Francisco in the 70's

[ribonucleic]

Washington is just such a greasy rub your back and rub mine place isn't it?

If I were a Bum, this is where I would yawn, thrown in an eye-roll, and say we need to get the facts.

But since I have the good fortune of not being a blindly partisan hack, I can acknowledge that this kind of filth exists in (what, for the sake of convenience, we'll refer to as) "my" party too, condemn it as disgusting, and welcome the prospect of her vigorous prosecution on federal corruption charges.

There's no getting around it: shit stinks. But you've got to expel it from the system! If you try to deny its existence by walking around with clenched buttocks all day, you sicken on the inside.

You also get very cranky - leading one to foolish behavior like arguing for "marriage protection acts" and so on. 

[ieffinhatecardio]

I've never trusted that woman since learning of her mayorlty race in San Francisco in the 70's

Is that the race where she rounded up all the cities homeless and put them in camps until the election was over?

[Cavalier22]

Most politicians are garbage

[24KT]

Is that the race where she rounded up all the cities homeless and put them in camps until the election was over?

She did some major flip flopping when it came to gay rights, ...when she realized she could never win the mayoral race without the gay vote.

She's also had some major slips of the tongue during gun rights debates. In one speech, she'd stated how the real fear was not from armed criminals, but an armed citizenry. It was all sloughed off as a slip of the tongue, ...but I seriously wonder if she wasn't simply inadvertently speaking the truth. She's always struck me as a lizard in Democratic clothing who I find only slightly less annoying than Gloria Allred.