All the GOP has to do is leave the Democrats to their own devices and they will destroy each other.

The Dems are on some hot streak, huh ?

Feinstein!!!!!!

I'm coming very close to utter despair that anything can be done to stop the Republicans from running the country into the ground.

Hell, we could probably throw all but one of them out of office and Reid and Feinstein would find some way to cave to their demands...

G__DamnItAllToHell! I'm sure there are others in California that would like to be the new Senator.

On the positive side, he'll now be of higher status within the DOJ when he announces his resignation to spend more time with his family.

Feinstein? that pig isn't up for re-election for years. hmmm...california seems to know something about recall elections.

Dems can't ever do anything. It violates the principle of keeping your powder dry. There is nothing more important than dry powder, you know.

Why do the Democrats bother running in elections if they're going to help the Republicans rig the vote.

If von Spakovsky gets confirmed it really is proof that the Dems are incompetent. Incredible.

My advice to Dems in Senate. Since no recommendation was sent along with the four nominees, then grow some and insist that they be voted on separately. If Reps whine, then remind them that these nominees were not endorsed in committee, just passed along and that this is not a normal course of events.

And don't fold because the GOP threatens you. God and the voters are on your side.

Feinstein will never run again. She will be almost 80 years old in 2012. She has absolutely nothing to lose by letting her true colors show. Feinstein has always been a conservative authoritarian disguised as a Dem and now she is proving it. FISA, Leslie Southwick, war profiteering and now Lieberman/Kyl and von Spakovsky on the same day.

This is pathetic! His wife is Viveca Novak, who "slipped" to Rove's attorney that Matt Cooper would testify that Rove told him about Valerie Wilson. That enable Rove to go back and "refresh" his memory about the call from Cooper.

It is this "slip" that resulted in Rove not being indicted. They are on the same team - this guy has no business holding any position involving the public trust. His wife ruined an important investigation and she was fired when she should have been indicted herself for obstruction of justice.

Brantl
"I hope people run against Feinstein and in the Dem primaries."

She is an old lady, who likely won't be running again when her term expires in 2010.

She is a lost cause....

Just called Senator Nelson's Omaha office and cheerily told the staffperson that I regarded him as a Democratic Party failure, and that I'd be sending money to whoever challenges him in the primaries.

For that matter, I'd send money to Nelson's Republican challenger. Not that it matters until 2012 (sigh).

Feinstein put the best face on the outcome that she could by not allowing a vote. You should be beating up on Nelson.

can a senator br re-called?

"Keeping your powder dry" really doesn't matter if you never intend to fire a single shot! Way to go Dems! I'm very close to changing my registration back to "Independent." At least then I won't have to suffer the shame of "guilt by association!"

I wonder how many rooms they added to Ben Nelson's home? Think maybe his kid just landed a cushy job with wingnut welfare?

Hm. Ben Nelson (DINO, NE). A name worth remembering.

Feinstein: the new Lieberman

And to think, I used to admire DF.

What the heck has happened to the Democractic party?

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carolyn wrote on September 26, 2007 6:45 PM:

And to think, I used to admire DF.
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Why did you 'admire' her? Are you a zionist?

Surely it's long past time for a "USA First" movement to get rolling? Health care for all U.S. children, before billions in military aid are given to Israel? Why are my tax dollars being sent--by Feinstein and Rahm Emanuel--to a renegade criminal mass-murdering state that's in major violation of UN resolutions, like 242?

And before any Likudnik answers that "Israel has the right to protect herself" let me add that the Palestinian n*ggers ('cockroaches' they were termed by I$rael's Minister Of The Interior...nice) in Gaza and the West Bank have the right to defend THEMselves as well. You'd never know it, if you watch a week of PBS TV in the USA.

Feinstein? Traitor. Looks rarely deceive.

Twilight Zone everybody.

You know we never seem to hear stories about Big Business arm-twisting people. We know how it works in politics, but we have to now equate everything political with Capitalism. Disaster Capitalism
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/huffpost-exclusive-my-in_b_65990.html

Business and Gubberment are one and the same now. Someone said to me on another post that, as far fetched and chicken-little as it seemed 10 years ago....government operates UNDER the Umbrella of Business now instead of the other way around. Perhaps 10 years ago we were both still naive and it has been going on a lot longer. Very possibly.

Current Disaster/Shock and Awe preznincy is perfectly skilled at twisting political arms. Every squeak of a republican breaking ranks the last 5-6 years has been squelched and the squeaker spends a week back-tracking and isn't heard from again. I mean, this is World Class armtwisting. Public figures with The Goods spill the beans. Public figure then retracts everything and goes into seclusion. LeChimp and TheCHeney and corp. media swing into action and basically bitch-slap the american public and say "who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes". Remember, Public Figure has told, virtually, millions of people about this-and-that with their initial media rollout....and withing a week or so it is scrubbed from the public eye.

Now the global capitalists can twist arms too. And when we see our Dems folding on issues that they seem politically capable of winning it has to be plain to you all who is twisting their arms. Nader was right.

The NewWorldOrder isn't interested in your concerns or playing fair. We should all stop being so naive, so shocked and at a loss to explain why the public seems to lose every battle. A trickle began in order to reverse the New Deal and it has grown into a tsunami. They have all the megaphones, loudspeakers, satellites, cameras, microphones. They own the tele and comm lines. They own all the networks and most of the papers. The remainder of HUGE money that isn't employed monopolizing our media is busy advertising on this media. The media cannot even tell us what is really going on because it conflicts with their interests and they would be doing expose's on themselves and their advertising clients.

Over the course of the past six years, I thought that the American press had failed democracy by failing to provide oversight. I blogged. I supported sites like this one, TPM, engaged in reporting the truth without tiptoeing around and/or kowtowing to corporate forces.

I've learned that all the truth in the world, in the hands of politicians, adds up to one big lie, and no amount of good reporting can change that.

As a nation, we are lost. When a so-called Democrat openly assists the placement of one of the architects of voter disenfranchisement as a tool for political control into any position of public trust, all hope is gone.

The corporate, two-for-one-and-one-for-all party death grip on Washington D.C. is the enemy. The Democrats have strung along the Netroots up until this point, and are hoping to do the same until 2008, when they hope to landslide into the same control system the Republicans enjoyed under Bush-Cheney.

The failure to block von Spakovsky is an implicit approval of disenfranchisement. It's a staggering roundhouse punch to the skull of voting rights -- one big Fuck You to every citizen of this country too poor to buy an election, regardless of which party's flag you wave. We've been had, there's no question about that.

So what do we do next? Inherit the earth?

There apparently is only ONE solution to the burgeoning problem: DENY ALL FUNDING TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION !!!

Yes, bring the entire Fascist government of the U.S. to a halt. Anarchy. Chaos.

The situation is so dire that ANY alternative is preferable to the current morass; and the DEMOCRATS in Congress are largely responsible...the gutless, spineless weasels!! With the current crop (or is it "crap") of Dems, my generation could have found a way.....to LOSE World WarII !!