Here are some quotes from the apparently accurate Wikipedia article on Diane Feinstein.  Note that they show that her husband is something more than a real estate developer.  As for Feinstein herself, according to what is reported she never saw a piece of authoritarian-corporatist legislation or regulation she didn’t like.  She may not be the Devil, but she certainly seems to be a devil.  As for organized labor, if they supported Feinstein they sucker-punched themselves—her affections, associations and connections are obvious from her record.

Feinstein supported the Iraq war resolution in the vote of October 11, 2002; she has claimed that she was misled by President George W. Bush on the reasons for going to war. However, former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter has stated that Feinstein in summer 2002 acknowledged to him that she knew the Bush administration had not provided any convincing intelligence to back up its claims about the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

The Center for Public Integrity has also reported that Senator Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum, are making millions of dollars from Iraq and Afghanistan contracts through his company, Perini [18]. Feinstein voted for the resolution giving President George W. Bush the authority to invade Iraq.

In October 2005 Feinstein introduced legislation to undermine what is known as the Alien Tort Claims Act, an old law dating back to the first years of the Republic that has been revived in recent years by human rights activists to hold corporations responsible for their actions in developing nations. ...

In May 2007, Feinstein voted for an Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill, which continued to fund the Iraq occupation without a firm timetable for withdrawal. ...

In recent years, Feinstein has been working in the Senate to increase surveillance and wiretapping powers of the government and to reduce legal safeguards that would protect citizens against it….

Feinstein was the original Democratic co-sponsor of a bill to extend the USA PATRIOT Act. In a December 2005 statement, Feinstein stated, “I believe the Patriot Act is vital to the protection of the American people.”[25] She was the main Democratic sponsor of the failed 2006 constitutional Flag Desecration Amendment.[26] In November 2007, Feinstein was one of only six Democrats to vote to confirm Michael Mukasey as Attorney General.[27] She also voted for the McCain-Feingold legislation.

After heavily supporting Bush’s Immigration Reform Bill, she mentioned that she was “looking into revising” the Fairness Doctrine, specifically targeting talk radio.[28] ...

Feinstein introduced an amendment to the 2009 stimulus bill which some activists believe would infringe on net neutrality. ...

Feinstein has supported Hollywood and the content industry when it has come into conflict with recording piracy on intellectual property issues…. Feinstein’s consistent backing of the content industry and attacks on fair use have earned her poor marks with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and IPac.

On October 1, 2008, Feinstein voted in favor of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (the $700 billion bailout).[45]

Feinstein has received scrutiny for her husband, Richard Blum’s, extensive business dealings with China and her past votes on trade issues with the country. Critics have argued that Feinstein’s support, as a member of the Senate’s Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, of policies that may benefit her husband may raise the appearance of a conflict of interest.[46] Suburban newspaper Metro Silicon Valley reported in 2007 that Blum holds large investments in companies that have won large government contracts without bidding….

Folktruther, July 25 at 3:29 pm #

No, Ardee, Hippies objective analysis of Feinsein is correct.
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Yeah, Herr Folktruther, as objective as are your opinions of Jews…..

No, Ardee, Hippies objective analysis of Feinsein is correct.

hippie4ever, July 24 at 12:16 pm

C’mon Hippie, don’t hold back, tell us how you really feel…:-)

Oh and Richard Bloom, Feinstein’s mega millionaire hubby is a real estate tycoon, not a defense contractor. I believe his only connection to the military is some land he sold at inflated prices to them…

Feinstein is just another Washington Politico, no better and no worse than most.

I always “pfshawed” the incredible premise that all of America’s senate was corrupt. But as lester333 points out;  “Everyone knows that Diane’s husband is a war profiteer”. And Nancy Pelosi’s hubby is a top echelon Realtor in S.F. worth over $90 Million (with strong ethnic and religious ties to a small beleaguered beacon of Democracy in the Middle-East that slaughters Gaza civilians with impunity that I won’t name). And the listing can go on and on. All of them seem to have an “angle”. That’s how they got the cash to get in.

P.S. Thanks for the ref. thebeerdoctor

I wasn’t aware anything except guns and liquor was manufactured here; okay maybe bibles and sex toys—would that be the core of American labor?

As for that beast Feinstein: Harvey Milk’s body wasn’t cold before IT became President of the Board of Supervisors, and soon Mayor. The skyline popped up skyscrapers faster than mushrooms, and surprise! The owners and tenants were all major Corporations. And then the blue collar jobs disappeared.

Another surprise—Feinstein opposes single-payer, but supports WWIII because her penis, Dick Bloom, is a war profiteer as lester333 pointed out. Yet this creature has the temerity to pose as a “voice of reason” and panders to the female vote.

Feinstein is the Devil.

There are many reasons to take a good hard look at the Democratic Party, this is just one of them.

Under the Democrats the gutting of this country will continue, while we have the illusion that something is different, well it’s not.

Democrats are Republicans, and Republican’s are Democrats, and as long as they have us believing that there is a difference, then there will be no change, only the same bitter pills to swallow.

“You say you want a revolution, well, you know we all want to change the world..”

I read doom and gloom when those committed to changing a corrupt and awful system of governance should be rejoicing. For a very long time labor thought the Democratic Party the oasis in the desert and refused to budge from that stance.

Even while the rank and file slowly deserted that Party the leaders of the unions remained committed to Democrats en masse. Now the tide seems to be turning as more and more are faced with the solid realization that the Democrats as friends of labor has been a myth and a farcical definition.

The real question is how to use this increasing disatisfaction to an advantage…...Some might see it as a tool to reform the Democratic Party, good luck with that. Others might decide that all those unhappy workers might just be candidates for third party growth, perhaps so.

The one enemy is ennui and estrangement from the process, especially hard considering the money and power that pays for a constant stream of propaganda and the postings of trolls who seek only to distort and never clarify.

Everyone knows that Diane’s husband is a war profiteer so why would anyone be shocked to learn she is, as my grandmother used to say, “a cunning beast”.  Pathetic.

CJ’s and hidflect’s comments get to the bitter point of this business. And business it is! Two words that are verbotten in this money grubbing society are “union” and “solidarity”. Socialism is the newspeak demon that drives Senator Feinstein and Joe the faux Plumber. Yes you have the right to choose between Right and Far-Right, that is what is present on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The introduction states, “Some readers might be inclined to dismiss analysis by socialist-anything, but they should put aside their suppositions and read this well-thought-out report with open minds.”

Readers shouldn’t dismiss socialist analysis more quickly than corporate media analysis.

Forget self-censorship, which pales next to collective self-loathing on the part of labor. I might have some idea of how labor was brought to here. But was it so easily done? Yes, evidently. Obviously too, when labor elected Ronald Reagan, and then when it continues to elect likes of Diane Feinstein and other right-wing neo-types who’ve only ever demonstrated contempt for workers.

Scheer got to some of politics of it in his piece this week concerning F-22. Even Boxer, for crissake. It’s not like defense biz so much as employs many people. Defense industry is far more capital-intensive than any other sector of the economy. How many are employed building F-22s and other such junk compared to those employed in, say, the medical industry? Or the construction industry? Let alone by government. But that wasn’t really about saving jobs. It was about Northrop-Grumman (based in Century City), et al.

Self-loathing was somehow manufactured over some period of time, or rather absorbed by osmosis. Possibly by instilling fear FDR warned of fearing. Fear of own shadow? Of any prospect? Not that labor anymore makes serious demands, but when it did, it was instantly beaten or shut-up on being labeled the “s,” or even “c,” word.

That Cold War thing really DID work to bend minds! That and New Left’s embarrassment whenever topic of Joe Stalin was brought up by Lippmann- or Kristol-like hack on behalf of America’s own entrenched aristocracy. Old Left fell all over itself apologizing while New Left did all in its power to stay clear of even the word, “socialism,” never mind the word, “communism.” (“Say WHAT? Not us, as we’re believers too. Not to worry. We got religion.”)

The New Left turned right with turn to identity politics, leaving behind the fundamental matter of class warfare ongoing on part of same aristocracy (of Ivy League, mostly). By the 70s, “rights” movements were about all. Okay, but not hardly adequate. All demanding merely to be legally recognized. In that process, worker demands were largely forgotten at the same time politics became no more than culture war. What left? Poverty level grew, among workers of ALL identities. Not really intended sell-out was mostly completed by 1980.

Labor took Reagan’s folksy Americana bait, swallowing it whole. (Not that Carter was to talk about.) Then—maybe worse—Clinton’s bait. And now, Obama’s. Who’s offering up miserly “healthcare reform” that will benefit insurers more than we the laboring. That after granting billions upon billions to investor class without so much as a single serious demand it account for charity/theft of labor. (Not of money, but of labor in the end. Do NOT think in terms of money, but in terms of hours expended in wage- and salary-slavery. Of your life.)

Just lately, Michael Jackson dead, on which occasion big media (“BM,” also for bowel movement when pile that results is the same) finally became absolutely nothing more than source of titillating distraction. While the President actually seems to believe he/we can win militarily in southwest Asia.

Labor was suckered-punched, by failure of system of education and then by promise of tax cuts. Taxes WERE cut, in fact. And now, states are going bust as is the nation, while labor and by now OLD Left persist in religious belief in democratic capitalism. As though that weren’t always oxymoron.

Offered up in place of anything of a seriously demanding nature is Employee Free Choice Act. This pitiful excuse for teensy demand of the bossy class. Which even so-called “Democrats” can barely bring themselves to make miserable law. Lest their aging, heading-south asses wind up less privileged on retiring from dubious “service.” To become board members and/or media “analysts.” In the latter case, instructing of how there is no such thing as class warfare, and, of course, of how a wage-enslaved workforce is really “free.” Doncha know.

Politics has learned from McCarthy-ism. It’s too dangerous for the snake to have a head; an identifiable person leading its campaign There’s no leader of the Right but Americans are only free to choose between Right and Far-Right. Who are you voting for? Geitner, Summers, Emmanuel or Gates? None of these but that’s what you get. McCain was your straw-man alternative.