Charmed on Air Force One, Sen. Dianne Feinstein Changes Opinion of Bush

[Rose Siding]

...Bush invited Sen. Dianne Feinstein to join him on Air Force One during his trip. It may not have been coincidence that less than 24 hours earlier, Feinstein played a pivotal role in allowing Judge Leslie Southwick, a target of liberal groups, to be confirmed to an appeals court when she voted to block a filibuster and support the president's nomination.

With a 7:40 a.m. Thursday departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Feinstein found herself seated in the rear of the plane with a handful of Southern California congressional representatives.

After a breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausage and French toast, Bush popped back for what the senator described as a frank two-hour conversation, mostly about foreign policy.

"I found the discussion extraordinarily positive," Feinstein said. "I came away with a very different view about him."

As for the president's performance on the ground?

"It was a wonderful thing to see, to be candid," Feinstein said. "I saw a warm, caring human being."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/1...

See? If Democrats would just cave be reeeeeeasonable, maybe they could ALL get plane rides and Freedom Toast with the Hugger in Chief!

I swan, the woman must have the memory of a popsicle.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Dianne Lieberstein.

[indepat]

44. F*** Madame Lieberstein

[TwilightGardener]

45. Yep--total turncoat.

[Cha]

94. dianne feinstein has been this

way from as long as I've been on DU..caving to the bushits.

When I read fiendstein "changed her mind" ..I thought she wasn't going to enable bushfuckingshit anymore.. that headline is so of fulla shite from the get-go.

So is fiendstein gonna be held responsible when the sociopath tells dinos in so many words.."to go fuck themselves"? ala his puppetmeister?

she's so fulla greed it's bordering on Perversion..ah, hell she's a pervert.

[The Gunslinger]

130. Another one gone....

How many Democrats are left in the Party??

[Neecy]

2. Charmed by war profits, Feinstein changes opinion of Bush...

[mod mom]

67. Yep, it sounds like her hubbie's defense ties might have played a role:

Army contract for Feinstein's husband
Blum is a director of firm that will get up to $600 million
David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 22, 2003



URS Corp., a San Francisco planning and engineering firm partially owned by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, landed an Army contract Monday worth up to $600 million.

The award to help with troop mobilization, weapons systems training and anti-terrorism efforts is the latest in a string of plum defense jobs snared by URS. In February, the firm won an army engineering and logistics contract that could bring in $3.1 billion during the next eight years.
Government contracting has come under increasing scrutiny by Congress and citizen groups, with critics decrying the political connections of firms winning lucrative jobs. Richard Blum, Feinstein's husband, serves on the company's board of directors and controls about 24 percent of the firm's stock, according to Hoover's Inc. research firm.

-snip
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronic...

[orleans]

85. how can that bitch sleep at night? how do you go along with this shit

just to make yourself some money when you KNOW it's to the detriment of america and the world??

how does she fucking LIVE with herself?

[Neecy]

89. DiFi sleeps exceptionally well at night...

...in her tony new mansion, bought with her husbands war-profiteering proceeds.

[yurbud]

90. that's the real story. she's a poster child for what's wrong with pols at all levels

They come into politics as a way to pursue business by other means.

[Cha]

95. What do those Californians

who see right through bushit think of all fiendstein's pandering and licking and pandering to the propoganda?

[Tesha]

3. Isn't that just special? (NT)

[Xipe Totec]

4. Check her forehead for lobotomy scars nt

[Benhurst]

5. He must have made her an offer she couldn't refuse.

Something to do with her husband, perhaps?

[formercia]

53. Feinstein spent the trip reading her dossier

between periods of vomiting and panic attacks.

[silverweb]

71. My first thought.

n/t

[babylonsister]

6. Oh my gosh. I cannot even grasp a prominent Dem, or any Dem,

saying that. Is she that malleable? Delusional is more like it.

[Tesha]

10. Remember: Always vote for the Democrat, no matter how much they may suck! (NT)

[babylonsister]

15. I think, if I had the option here, I couldn't vote. What's the difference? nt

[Le Taz Hot]

39. To write in

a real Democrat's name. Next question.

[robinlynne]

72. and when we do that, those Democrats vote for republicans, vide Feinstein.

[atreides1]

22. Neither malleable or delusional!!!

I would say greed, seeing as how her husband owns 75% of a company that has contracts with the DoD in Iraq. Let's face facts, there are some within the Democratic party who are more then willing to sell their souls for cash in their pockets, and there is a good possibility that senator Feinstein is one of those people.

[Cha]

96. Yeah, that's what I've come

up with..diane fiendstein is greedy to the point of perversion and I'm wondering why she doesn't just change her affilitation to Greedy Old Pervert?

We need Californians to get rid of her gop ass..bet she fucking thinks she's set to get her hubby contracts for life.

[A wise Man]

7. What a freaking wuss she is

[bullimiami]

8. stupid fool. the devil charmed her boots off.

theres some pretty powerful evidence for her primary opponents.

[Cha]

97. Oh, that someone would

actually challenge her greedy ass and use it.

[bryant69]

9. That's not good

Still I suppose she feels Bush has her state over the barrel - so she'd better play nice.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[SammyWinstonJack]

42. And apparently in this case, playing nice means being delusional as well.

george really isn't how she described him. His "caring" act is just that, AN ACT! fool me once shame on me, fool me....can't get fooled again. Sadly that isn't true with some of our Democratic Leadership.

[spanone]

11. a caring human being who invades countries under false pretenses...yea, that's junior

he probably showed her the file with her name on it compiled by warrantless wiretaps

[Amonester]

128. yeah, the torturer-in-him cares soooooooo much...

imagine that chimp giggling each morning when someone tells him blackwater murdered a few more innocent civilians for nothing.

caring. pffffffft

d.f. = repuke infiltrator = CA's lieberman

[shadowknows69]

12. There is some high level brainwashing going on

or the more medieval Godfather/Luka Brazzi method, but something is flat out scaring our legislature into compliance with these criminals.

[dailykoff]

33. She's been a tool from the get go.

No brainwashing required. I've beginning to wonder whether the Moscone assassination that made her nut was really just another lone gunman thing.

[Cha]

99. Hey, that's what I said..

I used "get go" and everything!

[dailykoff]

112. Gotta wonder who's little money pit Moscone put the lid on.

Now that we know NeoCons will kill anybody for anything the Dan White story is becoming a little clearer. We'll probably find out all the details in about fifty years.

[Cha]

113. Right! Twinkies,

my Democratic Ass.

[dailykoff]

115. Followed by suicide.

Convenient.

[Cha]

116. Suicided always is

con-ven-iiiieeent for them.

Sybil Edmunds better watch her back and get some bodyguards to help with that.

[steve2470]

138. blackmail

I think some of them are being blackmailed, to be honest.

[CatWoman]

13. I think, after seeing the way he stiffed both NY and NOLA,

that she is trying to ensure that he doesn't do the same to California.

[Cha]

100. So she'll blow

'em.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. This story reminds me of the KAOS agent, Simon the Likeable on "Get Smart"

who got away with stuff b/c all you had to do was look at him and you involuntarily liked him no matter what and allowed him to get away with stuff.

Either Feinstein is worn down and extraordinary weak or * has the social skills of a major league BS-er.

[Nia Zuri]

61. loved tha show...is it on in reruns?

[Nostradammit]

122. OR she's corrupt as hell

The Moscone thing has alway bugged me.

[Turbineguy]

16. They must have

some sort of weird aromatherapy on that plane.

[me b zola]

91. Sulfur

Sulfur, cash, and blood is the aromatherapy used on AF1.

[SoCalDem]

17. Feinstein's "price".. not quite a Grand Slam (no pancakes or bacon)

Maybe if we chip in and take her to Denny's she;ss change her mind again

[tularetom]

18. What a shallow stupid douchebag she turned out to be

Seems like I heard that trent lott blew smoke up her ass and convinced her to vote some racist judge out of committee and then vote for him on the floor where he got confirmed. If she's that vulnerable to male attention some Dem senator needs to sacrifice himself and well, use your imagination.

[Cha]

101. Yeah, you

got it.

[fed-up]

19. Diane has BLOOD on her hands, she is a war WHORE, didn't get my vote last election-nt

[bdamomma]

23. she should be voted out.

constituents keep score please.

[Cha]

102. THANK

YOU!

[bdamomma]

20. * to feinstein

as he invites the fly into his web.

[LeftishBrit]

21. Is she Tony Blair's cousin???

[ChairmanAgnostic]

24. she looked into his eyes, and peered into his soul.

She can do business with this man.
His word is his bond.

[The Stranger]

25. Sounds like a conspiracy to commit war crimes.

[liberalmuse]

26. Jello Biafra was right about this piece of work.

Go away, Feinstein!

[Forkboy]

125. Yes he was...and long ago, too.

Jello is right about a lot of things.

[Webster Green]

27. DiFi sucks! I voted for a democratic challenger in the last primary..

Then I voted for the Green Party candidate in the general.

She will never get my vote again!

[LibDemAlways]

54. My vote mirrored yours. Unfortunately, CA - particularly

So Cal - is filled with people who pay little to no attention to politics and vote for Feinstein out of habit or name recognition. No one is apparently willing to mount a serious challenge, so we'll be stuck with her until she retires. Can't happen soon enough.

[Cha]

103. We gotta somewhere sometime

and you're doin' it! THANKS!

[Ganja Ninja]

28. "I saw a warm, caring human being."

I saw a partisan nincompoop use a tragic occasion to take a backhanded swipe at a Democratic Governor of Louisiana. I guess it all depends on what you view as "warm and caring".

[Cha]

104. fiendstein has proven herself

over the years to be a greedy pod bot..she hasn't changed a bit.

[shain from kane]

29. "And I owe my husband's and my fortune to his actions." n/t

[Horse with no Name]

30. She is nothing but a WAD

Worthless.Absurd.Democrat

[Lasher]

31. She's not up for re-election until 2012

Thoughts of accountability to her constituents are far from her mind.

[Cha]

105. Shite.

[donsu]

32. there is something about that plane - N.O.'s Mayor had the same experience

he was himself when he went in and quite changed when he came out. (during Katrina)


bully, bribe, blackmail, threaten, murder

charms on a neo con bracelet

[Toasterlad]

34. Didn't Specter Change His Mind On a Vote After an AF1 Ride, Too?

What is it about that plane? Or does the altitude just make people light-headed and suggestible?

[Yael]

73. Yes. He did.

Spinless asshole that he is.

[leftofthedial]

35. she's almost as disappointing as leader

as the Colorado Rockies were in the World Series

[stirlingsliver]

36. Gag! GAG!

Gag me with a fucking spoon!

Stuff like this makes me sick. SICK!

[Le Taz Hot]

37. OK, are we beginning to understand

the reason I WROTE IN another Democrat's name so I didn't have to vote for her in 2006? NOW do you die-hard party wonks see?

[hedgehog]

59. Two words

Jonothan Tasini

[Le Taz Hot]

69. . . . who lost to the Clinton machine?

I'm sorry, am I missing something here? JonAthan Tasini ran against Hillary Clinton in the NY primary. Correct? And was soundly trounced. Sorry, you're going to have to elaborate on your "two words."

[Gold Metal Flake]

38. She is a tool and must be replaced at the primary.

She is a liability for the left.

[Le Taz Hot]

40. The problem is

the Democratic Machine is behind her so no challenger ever stood a chance. However, she's up in 2012 and she'll be 79 iirc. Unfortunately, the Democratic Party in this state has it's head so far up the DLC's ass, it's virtually assured that another DLC patsy will be shoved down our throats.

[NV Whino]

41. Feinstein. Shark. Jump.

[petepillow]

43. Charmed by a politician. Imagine that....n/t.

[Zodiak]

46. Whoever said she is like Leiberman is correct

I have them voting about the same in the 109th congress.

Cantwell (Washington) DLC 48.27586207
Stabenow (Michigan) DLC 46.55172414
Kohl (Wisconsin) DLC 44.82758621
Feinstein (California) DLC 44.82758621
Leiberman (Connecticut) DLC 44.82758621
Rockefeller (West Virginia) 41.37931034
Conrad (North Dakota) DLC 41.37931034
Baucus (Montana) DLC 39.65517241
Carper (Deleware) DLC 34.48275862
Johnson (South Dakota) DLC 31.03448276
Lincoln (Arkansas) DLC 31.03448276
Salazar (Colorado) DLC 24.13793103
Pryor (Arkansas) DLC 22.4137931
Nelson (Florida) DLC 20.68965517
Landrieu (Louisianna) DLC 17.24137931
Nelson (Nebraska) DLC 3.448275862

She is just another DLCer hanging out in our party to give this push for fascism a bipartisan bent.

She isn't worth a shit, and I will never say anything in support of her until she gets her head out of her ass or gets the hell out of the Democratic party.

[Cha]

106. Thank you,

Ironfist! Even though fiend isn't up for re-election until 2012..we can always hope the pendulum will swing somehow and she'll have to be held accountable for being a traitor..file this under, "Ya Never Know"!

[derby378]

47. If only Cindy Sheehan had been allowed to challenge her in 2006...

...America might be a somewhat better place to live.

[Vickers]

48. Remind me never to eat scrambled eggs served by the his staff.

Apparently they slip some chemical lobotomizing agent in there.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

49. delete

Dupe

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

50. This epiphany occurred just after she discovered all that cash

that had mysteriously appeared in her purse.

[Parche]

51. Plane

I would hurl a million times if I had to sit in back with Darrell Issa, Duncan Hunter,
and Bilbray......

[sadiesworld]

52. A very different view of him?

BS, she's always had her lips mere inches from his ass.

[Cha]

107. fiendstein's lips and bushit's

ass are siamese twins.

[Javaman]

55. All senator and reps should have this tattooed on their palms before talking with moron*...

"he lies. refer to this often".

[Beam Me Up]

56. Bush probably asked her if she's seen "The Good Sheepherd."

You know which scene I'm talking about.

[Beelzebud]

57. She's been bought and paid for by defense contractor blood money.

We have a lot of fucking house cleaning to do, but many don't seem willing to do it.

[quiet.american]

58. She saw a "warm, caring human being;" I see dead people.

That negates any show of "warmth and caring" the murderous idiot in the WH might care to put on.

[Sequoia]

60. You "swan"?

Boy howdy, I haven't heard that expression in years...YEARS! Since high school in NC.

[donsu]

62. me too - I used to say that 'well, I swan!' - flashbacks

nt

[watercolors]

63. Charming as the devil himself!

I never trust people who come off that way, I figure they are always after something.

[The Backlash Cometh]

64. Her kind always do. Money is like catnip.

[havocmom]

65. charmed: (adj) filled with wonder & delight, strongly attracted, dangled out a door at 30,000 feet

also see: intimidated, blackmailed, bamboozled

[book_worm]

66. She won't run again (I predict) and Arnold will run and win her seat in the senate.

[Joe Fields]

70. I would rather have Arnold as a senator than that backstabbing bitch...

[NorthernSpy]

68. WHY do they keep re-electing her?

DREADFUL woman.

[shance]

79. Who says we do? You assume votes are tabulated fairly.

n/t

[LeftishBrit]

80. Perhaps because the alternative WOULD be someone like Arnie?

Or someone even worse. Wasn't that seat once held by Richard Nixon?

[frylock]

74. i can say with absolute certainty that she will never receive my vote ever again

[shance]

75. Money and war profiteering are many splendored things isn't it?

It buys such fair weathered friends.

As Willie sings,

"If you've got the money honey, I've got the time. "

[lonestarnot]

76. Damn traitor!

[Terran]

77. I remember her as Mayor of San Francisco...

DiFi has never been what any of us would call a brave progressive. She's always been perfectly willing to say and do things that are politically convenient for her.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

82. I've been stuck with her since...

as a representative of some sort practically all my life! She has always been the closest thing to a GOPer this City has ever elected in modern times, and I include Frank Jordan in that statement.

She has won her last two Senate elections without my help, and will have to keep on winning without me.

[shance]

87. Remember the commercial she ran exploiting the assassinations of the mayors?

Didn't go over very well.

However, I guess it hasn't hurt her career too much.

Money seems to talk, at the expense of everything else.

[shance]

78. Wonder what part of California was sold off Bush & Co. on that visit?

n/t

[Avalux]

81. I was hoping this was satire before I opened the post.

It's not and now I feel like I need to take a shower. Disgusting.

[Done]

83. But she had scrambled eggs, sausage and Freedom toast!

I might be willing to surrender all my principles for a meal like that. My goodness, they probably even put maple syrup on the freedom toast.

Maybe the administration has killed a million people, but you take a bite of those soft, fluffy eggs and you realize that we don't know how many people he has killed now do we? And then you bite into that juicy sausage dripping with pork fat, and you forget about those people who "may" have "injured" by the US presence in Iraq. And then comes that freedom toast with maple syrup that covers the entire surface of your tongue in absolute sweetness.

Damn those Iraqis for getting in our way. Pass the salt.

[Cha]

108. Hey.. you have

Rod Serling as your Avatar! Kewl~ I met him once way back in the '70's!

Yeah, dianne fienstein looks like she needs a good colonic more than anything.

[Done]

110. Night Gallery was my favorite show. nt

[Rex]

84. Alright you airtight supporters of DF, explain this one.

She looked deep into his soul?

[Disturbed]

86. DINO Feinstein is another Plutocrat pretending to represent

the Peasants.

[Solly Mack]

88. "I saw a warm, caring human being." - who tortures people

Yeah...whatever

[RiverStone]

92. Can we trust the news on this???

Hard to believe that Dianne would get this bushwhacked!

If so, her eggs are not the only thing that got scrambled...

[mitchum]

93. Someone got slipped a roofie

[Rosa Luxemburg]

98. There must have been something in those scrambled eggs!!!!

did they serve magic mushrooms?

[Stardust]

109. I noticed she was all lit up and smiling behind * in the news clips. Gross.

[AndyTiedye]

111. Perhaps Her Opinion Changed After Listening to Tapes of Some Phone Calls She Had Made

[ThePowerofWill]

114. Only one thing to say about such blatant pandering.

The smilie couldn't be big, or real enough to state how i feel after reading that.

[City Lights]

117. How quaint.

These thugs have *something* on everyone. How nice for George that his Poopy was head of the CIA. The Bush tentacles reach everywhere.

[Lisa]

118. "George W. Bush is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being"

"...I've ever known in my life."

I didn't know this was going to be a movie quote thread, did you guys?

[Mike03]

119. She used to be someone I admired greatly

I grew up in the East Bay, and my very very early memories include the assassinations by Harvey Milk.

But Feinstein has not lived up to her full potential. I don't dislike her, and until I moved out of Los Angeles, I always voted for her. But she's outlived her usefulness as a politician. And it's not a secret that she has investment interests, or at least that her husband does.

It's just sad. At least there is still Barbara Boxer.

[Xenotime]

120. Is everybody fucking turning over?

[cboy4]

121. She's lost her mind. And I was forced to hold my nose

and vote for her last time so that the Republic didn't win.

[otohara]

123. Warm, Caring Human Beings Don't Kill Human Beings

by the hundreds in TX, by the hundreds of thousands in Iraq.

[Disturbed]

124. Sociopaths can be real charming.

Busholini is a Silver Spoon Sociopath that can lay it on real thick.

Dino Feinstein is a greedy, Plutocrat & a fool if she really thinks that most Dems would
agree with her delusional appraisal of this War Criminal.

[boston bean]

126. She is one dangerous twit. nt

[Yael]

127. He probably just reminded her about the URS Corporation contracts

awarded and to be awarded to her hubby. The little woman won't be drawin' a paycheck forever, ya know!

[bklyncowgirl]

129. Awwww isn't that special.

Feinstein was charmed by the shrubster. How sweet.

[Gloria]

131. OH, PLEASE! What a complete jackass she is!! After all this time, too,

seeing this bastard in action!

[MzNov]

132. She is an absolute idiot. Dammit, why did I read this?

[scarletwoman]

133. With "friends" like this, etc.... (nt)

[Stinky The Clown]

134. Diane, you ain't no Barbara Boxer

blech

[Baby Snooks]

135. Pod People

A warm, caring human being? Maybe someone should check "Feinstein's" DNA along with "Pelosi's." I think they're replacing everyone with pod people. You know, like in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[Chovexani]

136. By "charmed"

Do they mean brainwashed and/or threatened with anthrax?

[diane in sf]

137. I hear her husband is profiting from Iraq contracts. She votes prochoice, but most of her

economic votes are essentially Repug.

[piesRsquare]

139. Goddamned Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)

Sucks people in every time. EVERY TIME.

The person upthread who said "Charmed by the Devil" is right...that's EXACTLY what happens when dealing with people with this disorder. People like Bush.

Doesn't matter how intelligent you are, how certain you are of your beliefs, even how strong you are. If you don't know how this disorder works, you're a candidate for getting sucked in.

People with NPD can just FEEL it--what your "Achilles Heel" is...it's almost like they can "sniff it out", exactly how to manipulate you. It's fucking creepy and scary as hell.

I've been nailed by a number of these people in my life...almost married one.

They suck you in, they cast their spell, and you end up doing stuff you'd never do, behaving in ways that you normally wouldn't. You end up going against your own beliefs, compromising yourself, acting--and appearing--unstable and uncertain, and you don't even realize what you're doing. You doubt yourself and your own intelligence, emotional/mental stability, beliefs, principles, etc. And when the person with NPD is done with you, he (usually) will dump you like a piece of trash--with no feeling, no concern, no care, no nothing. You're out; you're gone. And then you're left to clean up the mess that you made of your life while "under the spell" of the person with NPD. You feel your true self returning, and realize what happened, realize what you did. And then the shame hits. You feel stupid, unforgiving of yourself, wondering how you couldn't see it. Blaming yourself for being "so stupid". Ashamed that you "allowed yourself" to be so manipulated. And there's no support, because half the people will say you did it to yourself, and the other half will say "get over it"; no one will believe you. Repairing the damage can take years...psychological, emotional damage in particular.

My mother, who is a psychologist (Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology), says she truly believes people with NPD are far more dangerous than the likes of Ted Bundy, as they destroy more lives yet get away with it and can't be locked up for the damage they do. I agree with her.

This is the stuff that ISN'T written in the textbooks or DSM.

Feinstein should have never gotten on that plane.

"Forgive them, for they know not what they do"--this is what Jesus was talking about, people. Feinstein is "under the spell". So is Nancy Pelosi. So are the 25% of the US population that "support" this monster (and are not obscenely wealthy). They have no fucking idea what they're doing; they think they're being perfectly rational. Only when Bush is gone will their vision be restored and they will behold their shattered lives and country--and their shame and sorrow will be almost too much to bear.

God help us.

[Swamp Rat]

140. OMG!! THEY gave her a pod!!!

She isn't human any more!!!