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| Bye Bye, DiFi |
| 2007-03-29 |
| Dianne Feinstein exits MILCON following Metro exposé, vet-care scandal |
| Posted by:Bernie |
| #20 I really like DiFi! A lot. I mean 'G' is pretty fast, but 'N' is even faster with greater range. Oh ... never mind. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2007-03-29 19:36 |
| #19 The MILCON subcommittee is not only in charge of supervising military construction, it also oversees "quality of life" issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Perhaps Feinstein is trying to disassociate herself from MILCON's incredible failure to provide decent medical care for wounded soldiers. |
| Posted by: Thuns McCoy3169 2007-03-29 17:15 |
| #18 So far the MSM is not covering this at all. 3 hours ago Judicial Watch in DC took notice but I'm guessing we won't hear a peep out of the rest of the media. Bias, what bias? |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-03-29 16:08 |
| #17 i did a duplicate post also. Sorry I didn't get the difi reference and didn't hit on it soon enough. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-03-29 14:05 |
| #16 Oops, sorry about the dup post.... |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-03-29 12:07 |
| #15 You would think that Drudge would have picked this up by now. |
| Posted by: danking_70 2007-03-29 10:21 |
| #14 Its why I want candidates selected by lottery. Anybody who actually wants one of these positions is either a crook or insane. It should be just like jury duty. Here is the randomly drawn pool from this electoral group now vote one in. It won't get the cream of the crop but it is obvious the current system doesn't either. To top it off the aides need to be chosen the same way or the capital moved every 4 years with aides not permitted to move with it. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-03-29 09:53 |
| #13 I suspect they're too busy doing real work to run for politics, Mac dear. Most sensible men are, too. I agree it's a pity, though. We could use more tough-minded, clear-eyed, pragmatic politicians, of both sexes and all parties. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-29 09:40 |
| #12 I asked this question some time ago and didn't get an answer. I did, however, raise lotp's ire and got a gentle reprimand from TW. The question was, why are so many (apparently the large majority) elected female reps/sens so CLUELESS? They certainly all aren't: Britain, for example, has only had two good PMs in the last century: Maggie and Winston. On our side, there's Kay Bailey Hutchison from Texas that I can think of immediately as a truly solid Senator. There are OBVIOUSLY a LOT of smart, conservative women out there. Why, then, is their gender generally so poorly represented in the American legislative branch? |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-03-29 08:50 |
| #11 Good enough? Amen. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-03-29 08:23 |
| #10 Can you tell that my Rantburg conversion is complete? Thank goodness! (PBUF) [Peace Be Upon Fred] |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-29 08:14 |
| #9 NS, I promise not to. All of them are so disguting as to make me vomit. Good enough? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-29 08:11 |
| #8 Zenster, don't forget Boxer, Woolsey, Tauscher, Eschoo, Lee, Lofgren, Waters,... |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-03-29 08:04 |
| #7 As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband's companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp. and Or was her work on the subcommittee finished because Blum divested ownership of his military construction and advanced weapons manufacturing firms in late 2005? Ouch! Too bad it's a weekly newspaper. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-03-29 05:41 |
| #6 It would be interesting to contemplate what would it take to produce Margaret Thatchers. Ovaries with hair on them? [rimshot] |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-29 04:41 |
| #5 Long ago, my dissatisfaction with the overwhelmingly male dominated political process led me to hope that electing female politicians would have some sort of counterweighting influence. What matters is what people have in the head not what they have between their legs. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-03-29 04:12 |
| #4 Oy! Well, I am glad that you sin no more, son. ;-) It would be interesting to contemplate what would it take to produce Margaret Thatchers. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-03-29 03:50 |
| #3 Good riddance. I suppose that I must owe Rantburg some sort of an apology for ever having voted for this waste of skin in the first place. Long ago, my dissatisfaction with the overwhelmingly male dominated political process led me to hope that electing female politicians would have some sort of counterweighting influence. Trust me, I have overcome my rejection of chauvanist politics. If I have to vote for male politicians for the rest of my life in order to overcome the damage done by the likes of Feinstein and Pelosi, I'll be happy to do it. Rest assured that if there is even a single woman politician who will reverse the damage done by these liberal moronettes, I'll vote for her in a heartbeat too. Out of deep respect for everyone here, I'll keep to myself any regrets I might have about voting for these idiots. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-29 03:38 |
| #2 Well, it rhymed. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-03-29 01:00 |
| #1 Bye bye? I doubt it. Wrong party affiliation. Otherwise, she'd be hounded out by intense MSM attention within a week. I think "conflict of interest" stuff gets to the level of fetishism, most of the time, and typically depends on popular ignorance of procurement processes. Even here it would be easy for me to believe there was no direct hanky-panky. But in this case, the appearance of a very direct conflict was striking. Pork in "historic" war bills, Cold Cash Jefferson still serving, Murtha's nepotistic conflicts unmentioned - such a nice breath of ethical fresh air the country got with a turnover in Congress. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2007-03-29 00:21 |