worldnetdaily.com — Sen. Dianne Feinstein has abruptly walked away from her responsibilities with the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee after a report linked her votes to the financial well-being of her husband's companies, which received billions of dollars worth of military construction contracts she approved.
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gmason08Mar 29, 2007
Forgot to add; please continue irrelevant republicans good/democrats bad or if your preference is democrats good/republicans bad minutiae proliferation exercise as it's usefulness in distracting from what is really important is yet to be surpassed.
elisa72Mar 30, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL</a>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. <a class="user" href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=45">http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/bio.aspx?act=pro&ddlC=45</a>Principal shareholder Richard Blum, who co-owns 75 percent of Perini's voting shares, is the husband of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California who serves on the Appropriations Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence."We report, you decide."
pickypgMar 30, 2007
I agree, it's always been interesting to me that whenever a Republican gets caught doing wrong they [/usually/ rightfully] resign from the House or Senate (or even President). However, when a Democrat gets caught doing wrong, they simply sweep it under the rug and change the committee that they're on.I said usually rightfully because while I think that Trent Lott should have resigned for reasons I'm not going to go into (no backbone), he definitely did not deserve to be forced out of office for praising an old man at his birthday party, and then having his words twisted.It's a generality that applies to almost everything (and people that go against it are the exception, not the rule): once a cheater, always a cheater. It clearly fits both parties (after all, there's someone corrupt everywhere, even at your local no-name High School), but it's obvious to me that only Republicans get caught believing it and acting on it.
mercymillenniumMar 30, 2007
@ Deuterium Convicted like Cunningham? no. Don't even bing up "cash in the freezer" intell it nails a conviction. Till then its just gossip.
pickypgMar 31, 2007
@Leviathan777It's interesting that you brought up Randy Cunningham, since he more or less did exactly what Feinstein is being accused of here, only she did it indirectly. Oops, I guess you just remembered his name and not what he did?Also, I like how a few people involved in the scandals linked to Bush (even just by way of being a Republican) went to jail based on proof because Republicans didn't lie under oath, delete/burn/shred documents (or steal Top Secret documents from the Archives for a little CYA), where as in the Clinton era they did do everything to prevent that. If Bush pardons these people, then Democrats might have an argument. Fortunately for Republicans, we know that won't happen since Bush doesn't even have the balls to pardon the border guards that got screwed by the US Attorney that SHOULD have been fired down in Texas, even though they [Border Guards] SHOULD be pardoned.
pickypgMar 31, 2007
Don't tease. Of course the joke is on both of us because Democrat's don't even resign for this stuff, let alone get put in jail for this stuff. Only Republican's seem morally obligated to pay for their mistakes (even though many deserve it, such as Cunningham).
vor1Mar 31, 2007
This is hillarious, as if she was a Republican it would be front page news in every rag from coast to coast. Yes, we've heard it before; Liberal bias, ah it is just a myth.
oldfart2Mar 31, 2007
@pickypgTroop neglecting? This from the party that consistently cuts benefits for Veterans and allows their treatment facilities to rust away. The only one who has thrown away the lives of every man and woman that has died in Iraq is DUBYA and his cronies. No idea how to win the war or the peace. Someone has to do something before 10 years go by and the 3000+ death tally is 30000+. And the Democrats are the only one with the balls to do it.Missing $9 billion? The people auditing could not verify the money because the tracks of those who stole it were well hidden and protected. If MILCON had anything to do with it, then only the majority Republics could have done anything.Constitution missing? That's interesting, I haven't noticed my rights impeded on. Of course you haven't. As a good little german, you wouldn't notice it at all. That's why you don't belong here.Wrong country attacking? You still believe your Fuhrer's lies. I guess there is no point stating the obvious once again for the 10000th time. There were no WMDs in Iraq, there was no al-Qaeda in Iraq, Saddam had NOTHING to do with 9/11. There was no reason to attack Iraq. Getting rid of Saddam is not worth 3000+ lives.Habeas corpus missing? Let's see. Lincoln was involved in a pre-emptive war started by him 12000 miles away? I think not. I find it amazing that rightwingnuts always try to associate Iraq with WWII - this is the first time I've heard of the association of Iraq with the Civil War. LOL. There is NO relationship whatsoever."I'd gladly have even the stuff you listed (on face value no less!) over a President that gave China magical supercomputers that disappeared (oops! I'm sure those are going towards some protein analysis though, no big deal!) and also moreorless let them have our nuclear cluster bomb technology. Thanks Democrats."Magical SuperComputers? What are magical supercomputers? Nuclear cluster bomb technology? What is a nuclear cluster bomb? I'd sure like to see links to these items. Real links that is. Nothing from the XFiles.
oldfart2Mar 31, 2007
I'm just curious here - how did she get to be chairperson and ranking member during a Republic majority? Was she a republic at that time? Are there any Republics that are currently chairpersons of Democratic Party controlled congress? Maybe because it was a SUB-committee?
oldfart2Mar 31, 2007
With the exception of Dubya's 6 year pass from the MSM, you mean.
psitechApr 3, 2007
I'm still waiting to see the network news cover this.