AT LAST, AT LAST, PRAISE GOD, AT LONG LAST!
The "DEMOCRATIC" Party agenda of ABJECT, COMPLICIT COLLABORATION with, and SUBSERVIENCE TO, the Bush-Cheney Reactionary Texas Republican neo-Confederate/neo-conservative agenda is OUT IN THE OPEN for even the most provincial Americans to see.
ON EVERY MAJOR ISSUE or policy fight that determines MORE WAR POWERS for the Bush-Cheney administration, and MORE TRANSFER OF WEALTH from American working taxpayers to the Military/Industrial Complex and the Wealthy... DIANNE FEINSTEIN and her DEMOCRATIC SENATORS are THERE, either OPENLY VOTING WITH the Bush Republicans, or SITTING ON THEIR HANDS, NOT FILIBUSTERING to block that vote or issue!
FOR SHAME, DEMOCRATS!
#1. ...From helping Republicans QUASH the Black Congressional Caucus demand for a SIMPLE congressional investigation into massive vote-counting fraud in Katherine Harris/Jeb Bush's Florida in 2000, a BETRAYAL of HISTORIC PROPORTIONS, since there is probaly not one Democratic senator in the past 30 years who hasn't appealed to Black voters - as a defender of their interests and rights - for their votes. This DESPICABLE action (or inaction) on the part of the Democratic Senators, who REFUSED to sign on the the Black Congressional Caucus, has become THE BASIC TEMPLATE FOR ALL SENATE DEMOCRAT ACTIONS EVER SINCE: PUT THE 'DIGNITY" and "RESPECTABILITY" and "LEGITIMACY" of the Bush-Cheney administration (and the "belly-of-the-beast" Congress itself) OVER and ABOVE THE RIGHTS and CONCERNS of American voters, and specifically of Democratic voters.
#2. .....to ALLOWING the Bush-Cheney administration to OBSTRUCT a 9-11 Commission until 9-11 widows did the heavy lifting to demand its creation...
#3. ...to PRETENDING NOT TO NOTICE the ANTHRAX ATTACK investigation DEAD-END, after ONLY Democratic leaders were targeted by the supposedly "Arab" terrorist (what Arab terrorist with an ounce of self respect would target... Tom Daschle or... Patrick Leahy? - when a few similar letters sent to the Pentagon would have shut down the US military for several weeks?)
#4. ... to ALLOWING Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney to turn the 9-11 Commission into a NOT ONE PERSON CENSURED "lunchtime meet-and-greet" farce....
#5. ...to FAILING TO PURSUE Mr. Bush's (de facto) PARDON of Scooter Libby for PERJURY and OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE re the OUTING OF A CIA AGENT during time of war....
#6. ...to PRETENDING NOT TO NOTICE Mr. Bush's CLOSE CONNECTIONS to FRAUD-CONVICTED Chairman KEN LAY of ENRON and BRIBERY CONVICTED LOBBYIST Jack Abramoff...
#7. ...to DOING NEXT TO NOTHING to get at the heart of the PURGE-GATE SCANDAL, whereby Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and KARL ROVE SOUGHT to USE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT to FILE FALSE PROSECUTIONS against DEMOCRATIC voter-activists and candidates to swing close elections to Republican incumbents....
#8. ...to ALLOWING the corporate "Major Media" to act as virtual PROPAGANDA MOUTHPIECES for the Republican Party, from Rush Limbaugh to Rupert Murdoch to the horrific 'reporting' of the Washington Post and New York Times, which is usually no more than a David Broder/George Will rough polish on the Rush Limbaugh/Karl Rove talking points of the day. (George Will still insists that global warming... despite the retreat of almost every glacier on earth - is nothing but a Commie/Democrat/socialist plot)....
..... AT EVERY TURN, the COMPLICIT Democratic Senators and Democratic House "leaders" ENABLE this out-of-control, rogue, extra-constitutional, DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS, police-state, keep-the-slaves-locked-down-on-the-plantation White House.
FOR SHAME! THIS IS A BETRAYAL, by the Democratic Party Leadership, of EPIC proportions.
Simply by helping the Republicans keep the REAL AGENDA of the radical right OFF of the front pages and out of the network news headlines, Democrats hope they can RUN FOR OFFICE on one agenda... and THEN RULE, ALONG WITH THE REPUBLICANS, from the DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE agenda.
SHEER TREACHERY! SHEER BETRAYAL! WHERE are the FILIBUSTERS?! WHERE are the DEMANDS that HARRIET MIERS and Joshua Bolton APPEAR BEFORE CONGRESS to answer Congressional subpoenaes?
WHERE is the "Democratic" Party COMMITTMENT TO EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW, to PROTECTING and PRESERVING the rights enumerated in the US Constitution, that THEY ALL SWORE an oath TO UPHOLD!
(short answer: All the above is SUBSERVIENT to the will of the BIG DONORS who fund BOTH the Democratic AND Republican Party.)
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Feinstein Faces Dem Censure After Backing Mukasey
by Max Follmer, HuffingtonPost.com
November 12, 2007
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/12/feinstein-faces-dem-censu_n_72342.html
One day after voting to elevate a divisive conservative judge to the federal appeals court in New Orleans, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the president's guest aboard Air Force One. She had been invited to survey the damage from the recent spate of Southern California wildfires.
The senator later remarked privately that she found her conversation with Bush aboard Air Force One "illuminating," a source close to Feinstein told the Huffington Post.
Two weeks later, Feinstein was one of two Democrats on the Senate judiciary committee to vote to send Michael Mukasey's nomination to be the new attorney general to the full Senate. Her support helped turn the tide in favor of a nomination that faced an uncertain future after Mukasey refused to say whether waterboarding was torture.
When the full Senate voted, Feinstein was one of only six Democrats to vote in favor of confirming Mukasey.
Now, a coalition of progressive Democrats upset with Feinstein's controversial votes will ask the California Democratic Party to censure her at its executive board meeting this weekend, the Huffington Post has learned.
The move comes as Feinstein again finds herself under fire for saying Thursday that she now supports granting legal immunity to telecom companies that shared customer email and phone messages with the federal government as part of the warrantless surveillance program.
"Dianne Feinstein does not listen to the people of California," said Rick Jacobs, president of the Courage Campaign, a progressive organization in California. "She supports George Bush's agenda time after time."
Feinstein's office did not respond to messages seeking comment.
East Bay For Democracy, a chartered Democratic Club outside San Francisco, will introduce the censure motion on Saturday at the state party's executive board meeting in Anaheim. The Governing Board of the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party and the Progressive Democrats of America are also backing the measure.
In addition to her move to back Mukasey, critics have lashed out at her decision last month to vote to confirm Judge Leslie Southwick to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Southwick's opponents charged that his record on the bench in Mississippi demonstrated that he was both racist and homophobic. The Congressional Black Caucus, Human Rights Campaign and People for the American Way opposed his nomination.
The censure resolution faces an uphill battle. In order to be considered by the full executive board, it must first make it through the party's resolutions committee, which must approve the text unanimously.
The text of the resolution is below:
Whereas Senator Dianne Feinstein voted to support the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey as United States Attorney General, thereby elevating to the highest position in law enforcement a man who refused to renounce the right of the President to resort to torture and who refused to recognize waterboarding as a form of torture, and by this action Senator Feinstein failed to oppose President Bush and failed to stand for the ideals of the Democratic Party, which abhors torture and stands firmly against its use by the United States at all times and places; and
Whereas Senator Feinstein voted to confirm Judge Leslie Southwick for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit despite his clear record of racism and gender discrimination, thus failing to stand firmly with the Democratic Party, which supports gender equality and opposes racism in any of its manifestations; and
Whereas these examples are far from the only instances where Senator Feinstein, after seeking and securing the support and endorsement of the California Democratic Party, has failed to support the policies and principles of our party
Therefore be it resolved that the California Democratic Party expresses its disappointment at, and censure of, Senator Feinstein for ignoring Democratic principles and falling so far below the standard of what we expect of our elected officials.
