Could This Be The Reason Diane Feinstein is Pissed With Obama????

[Hutzpa]

Looks like Ms Feinstein is upset because Obama went over her head to choose
Panetta, is she concerned about the $600 million and $3.1billion contract
respectively hubby is enjoying under Bush'co for the next 8years?

Mr Feinstein got a sweetheart deal with the Army worth almost $3.1billion for the
next 8years.


I'm loving this Panetta pick every single day.


GOBAMA!!!

heres is an article about these sweetheart deals....


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL

[polichick]

1. Jeez, it was enough that she failed in her oversight job - this is disgusting!

[gblady]

2. you are right....

this is disgusting!!!

[Hutzpa]

7. Absofuckinlutely

she needs to vacate the intelligence committee she is serving on, and we
wonder why there are so many wars going on all at the same time???

This is despicable in the highest order.

[WhiteTara]

23. she didn't fail. She very carefully

steered these things to her hubby's company and other well connected bastards. The rest is just collateral damage and her picks would help her "keep a lid" on it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. The opportunities for disgust are so numerous every day. I think that

our country is broken beyond repair.

[1776Forever]

4. This is one appointment I can back wholeheartedly!

:thumbsup:

[cottonseed]

5. Three thousand million dollars.

I shake my head at the amount of money associated with politicians families these days. CA should have dumped Feinstein years ago -- especially after her gang fear monger and 3 strikes garbage. Good on Obama with this Panetta pick. I was around the guy a bit while in Monterey and he at least comes off as a genuine guy.

[rhett o rick]

14. The Democratic party machine will back DiFi all the way. You can't replace her unless you

vote republican.

[derby378]

6. I wonder if Obama is trying to introduce Feinstein to obscurity

If so, I'm all for it. Just because she was a friend of Harvey Milk doesn't excuse her support for torture and illegal wiretapping. Her record on Second Amendment issues needs no further embellishment here, either.

[Hutzpa]

9. If her claim to fame is her

relationship to Milk then Cali voters need to check their head,
time for a change.

They must have decent replacement out there in California I
presume.

[pink-o]

19. Yeah. and she had no problem exploiting Milk's death and parlaying her own career

Di Fi was the head of the SF supes when Milk and Moscone were killed 30 years ago. She immediately became the mayor without an election. (albeit, she was elected as mayor after that). Believe me, the gay community in SF feels her betrayal more than anyone: she was heavy-handed and ignorant all thru the AIDS crisis 20 years ago, she used her office as mayor to go on a zillion tax-funded junkets to get SF a bunch of "sister cities" and we've always known her husband, Richard Blum, was a big defense contractor. Why she kept getting elected, and furthering her career? Her opponents were even worse than she was!

Ironically, one of her first opponents for the Senate seat was Michael Huffington: a Repub and ex-husband of our dah-ling Arianna. Yes, Arianna was a good Republican wife; we had nothing but derision for her back then. But after he lost the election to DiFi, Michael Huffington came out of the closet, divorced Arianna and she turned into a flaming Pinko librul.

So at least something good has come out of this! As for Di herself, I hope she realises she's being punished for supporting torture and the chipping away of FISA. I'm so f'in sick of these DINOs! At least we have Boxer and Speier (who's a Baby Boxer, I have great faith in her!), maybe we can finally replace Dianne with a real democrat!

[ClayZ]

8. Yeah! K and R

I hope she gets what's coming to her for not BLOWING THE WHISTLE on bu$h!

[Cha]

10. And this..

"Broom The CIA"

<snip>

"Clearly, Feinstein and company don't have legitimate objections to Panetta, which makes the appointment of a liberal former US Representative - Time magazine notes that, in Congress, Panetta "repeatedly voted against President Ronald Reagan's military initiatives" - all the more attractive. They are merely scrambling to cover their own asses and cover up their own involvement in actions that, if ever exposed, would become the war crimes of two centuries.

The Panetta appointment also explains a lot about Obama's establishmentarian choices for Secretaries of Defense and State. He picked his battles, and it may be that Panetta is being sent in with a broom to sweep out the dirtiest, smelliest, most illegal enterprise in the United States government (one that has had a corrupting influence on Defense and State, too).

And if Feinstein et al really do try to head it off at the pass and deny Panetta's nomination, all the new president has to do is gather up some of the documents about illegal activities at the CIA - Drugs, anyone? Attempted coups? Illegal domestic surveillance? - in recent years that will be newly available to him on January 20, leak those documents to the press, cause a storm of controversy (and some Pulitzer Prizes to boot), have the new Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair, Senator Kerry, call for public hearings (reminiscent of his Iran-Contra and BCCI investigations), and, voila, place Feinstein and friends - and those who are behind them in this - in checkmate."


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http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/

[Hutzpa]

11. Gotto love our new Prez

:wow:

no smoke without fire....and it's coming.

[The Doctor.]

12. This is why I love Democrats.

They cross-check each-other. It's the fundamental point of political veracity.

[mmonk]

13. Always follow the money.

It's how we're losing our freedom and wealth.

[tishaLA]

15. The has to pay the mortgage on her $16 million home

and her war profiteer husband is the best way to make sure that happens.

[ForeignSpectator]

22. THAT ugly brick costs $16 million?!

War profiteer AND bad taste? Phew....

[firedupdem]

16. I find out more and more on this woman everyday. She's a real

piece of work!

[invictus]

17. K&R

[autorank]

18. It shows she's not too smart also k*r GREAT Post

Lets say you're a greedy politician who uses politics to enhance the personal gains of your family and the rest of the ruling class. How smart is it to mouth off to the guy who has a great deal of influence on that income stream, embarrass the guy in public? Not very! It got you thinking and you came up with this gem. Now others will think about it and look in to it. No telling what they'll find.

Feinstein's Freudian slips are showing.

[rateyes]

20. No conflict of interest there.

:sarcasm:

[leveymg]

21. URS is a partner company with Bechtel in the nuclear disposal business

See, www.washingtonclosure.com/News/WCH_Newsletter4/Vol_04_Issue_09.pdf

URS merged in 2007 with the Washington Group to form an $11 billion nuclear construction and engineering giant. See, http://www.forbes.com/markets/2007/05/29/urs-washington-closer-markets-equity-cx_jl_0529markets28.html

If it glows in the dark, DiFi gets a piece of the action.

[berni_mccoy]

24. WOW. WOW. WOW. K&R.

[pleah]

25. K&R She should be worried, if and when

they actually start prosecuting and sending people to prison. She could be among them?:shrug:

[AtomicKitten]

26. She's rumored to be thinking about running for governor here in Calif.

Ugh. I'm willing to take the hit because I want her ass out of the Senate where she wields scary wingnutty power.