Feinstein Follies

Any bets on how long it will take the Drive-By Media to cover this?

"Senator Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum's ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein. 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."

Imagine, if you will, a senior Republican resigning from a committee due to conflict of interest such as this. The bias of the leftist media in this country continues to amaze me. It shouldn't, but it still does. Can you envision how fast the Democrats would be calling for an investigation of Feinstein were a Republican? It would make your head swim. As it is, this will get very little attention. It's just sickening.

JASmius asks: Isn't the closest analog to this sort of thing on the GOP side former Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham? And isn't he in jail?

Opined Cap'n Ed:

If the Democrats meant what they said in 2006, Feinstein provides an excellent test case for their new sense of ethics. They should expel her from the Senate and have California hold a special election to replace her. If they do nothing, then they have exposed themselves as the party of self-enrichment at the expense of taxpayers.

Except, of course, that the Donks exposed themselves as rapers and pillagers of the taxpayers a long, long time ago, and reiterated it again just the other day:

Based on [GOP profligacy], the nation gave the Democrats the majority in both chambers of Congress. What did we get? No decrease in federal spending; the Democrats want to grow the government by 2.4% each year, which would mean adding close to $100 billion in spending each year. In order to do that, they want to increase taxes across the board, choking off economic growth and making people even more dependent on the government.

By 2011, the added tax burden on every taxpayer would be over $1100 dollars. Twenty-six million small businesses would have to pay almost $4,000 in extra taxes. More than five million Americans whose incomes are too low to pay taxes now would have to start paying in 2011, making the Democratic plan more regressive than what it seeks to replace.

Democrats and taxes, together again after twelve years in the wilderness. It sounds like a movie romance - and we're footing the bill for the production.

And we knew what we were getting. Which means the people who voted for those despicable, corrupt, treasonous neoStalinists are without excuse for the disasters and privations to come.