Dems Asked to Censure Feinstein

Good luck. They never do anything we ask them to do.

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.

Yeah. we know that noise. Or lack of it. She never ever answers any of our calls/emails/letters, either. And we're her constituents.

The rest of the Dems could have filibustered the Mukasey appointment (which passed by under 60 votes), but chose not to.

W. T. F.?

We'll say it again. You have our permission to do the damned job we hired you for. All of you. If you'd rather not, we'll just fire your asses and find someone who will.

It's kind of the prerogative of being the employer. But let's not have it come to that, and get to work for once in your useless lives.

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[oldgringo]

"Censure" of either or both Feinstein and/or Schumer is tantamount to chastising a full grown bull water buffalo with a chicken feather!
If you REALLY want to get their attention, IMMEDIATELY START A RECALL CAMPAIGN AGAINST EITHER OR BOTH.
Betcha "they" will at least know they have stepped in BUSHIT one too many times!