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Sorry, Dianne

11.19.07 @ 12:01AM

BREAKING THE HABIT
Re: Liz Mair's Dianne Feinstein, Enemy of the Left:

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over the Left's discomfiture with Feinstein. I'm surprised at The American Spectator's rush to defend her, though.

She's still the current champion of abolishing the Electoral College, a scheme designed to deliver the presidency into the hands of the ruling party in the major urban centers of the U.S., and to eliminate the inclusive intent for those in the less populated states. All the while, she opposes a similar move in her home state.

She's still the one who, with her husband, profits obscenely from commercial dealings with the country oppressing Nepal (not to mention Tibet), while their nonprofit American Himalayan Foundation hustles donations for the poor oppressed Nepalese.

She's still the one who steered ultra-lucrative Defense contracts to her husband's firms for work in Iraq, while having helped bash Halliburton for obtaining similar contracts.

She's a liberal Democrat. She only seems human when compared to her buddy Barbara Boxer. She will work to elect Hillary Clinton.

So she voted to confirm an AG candidate nominated by fellow liberal Democrats, and for that she wins your praise.
-- Dennis Dilley
California

Sorry, Senator Feinstein, no sympathy here. You and your leftist colleagues must now reap what you helped sow. You, Harry, Hillary, Teddy, ad nauseam, set these left wing nut roots into motion, and now, can no longer control them. Congratulations! Aren't you all proud of what you helped spawn, all in the name of your inane partisan hatred of George Bush. I think Mary Shelly wrote a book with a theme similar to this.

Many of us CT Republicans helped save Lieberman, and to his credit, he has responded as the only rationale voice within the national Democrat party. Last week, he declared that your party was now controlled by the paranoid hyper left. Sorry we can't help you in California with your censure problems, but perhaps you can take a page out of Hillary's playbook, and claim that those bad boys at the CDP's executive board are picking on the girl. No fair!! That should work, after all, it's working fine for Hillary, just ask de-fanged Wolf.
-- A. DiPentima

Hamlet detected a rotten odor manifesting itself in the land of Denmark. Call me paranoid, but I smell something rotten coming from the Land of the Left, and it smells a lot like Zyklon B. Besides being hardcore, died in the wool Liberals (yes, with a capital "L") Senators Lieberman and Feinstein have one other attribute that dare not utter its name; the unspoken (at least unmentioned by the press) common denominator is that both are Jewish.

While the Right has a reputation, deservedly or not, as being the party of exclusion, the Left is the truly discriminatory. Christians are welcome, as long as they are able to shed their beliefs in the sanctity of life. If you wish to pray, please take that outside our tent, or at least our schools or other public meeting places. Labor is always welcome, but remember you are here to work; your leaders will do the talking for you. Free thinkers are welcome as long as you mouth the ideas of the Royal High Muckity Mucks. Capitalists are fine -- if you earn your money making Hollywood Kultursmog, otherwise, just leave your cash. Muslims are just wonderful. Ask anyone. Jewish people are also swell, but those Zionist need to stop the moaning about their victim status and the oppression of the Palestinians. That type of intolerance will not be tolerated by the Democrats. Ah, there's the rub. It is not an anti-Semitic flavor; it is anti-Zionist stink that causes some to spew.

Sadly, the vast majority of the Jewish population of America (no need to hyphenate; we are proudly and fully American and proudly and fully Jewish), vote Democratic. On good days, the Left carps at Israel and supports the Palestinian movement, on bad days, the Left is openly hostile to the interest of Israel, yet Jews continue to give material and moral support to the Democrats without questions. Pavlov's dogs would have stopped salivating when the bell was peeled if they were given rancid meat time and time again. Despite a solid track record of political correctness at the expense of Jewish and Israeli interests, nothing much changes in Jewish support for all things Left.

Maybe if Feinstein and Lieberman voted as they have and were not Jewish, they would still have received the wrath of the true believers, and this writer is simply being paranoid, but one does not have to smell brimstone to know that a mob is coming to burn down the house.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

I am confused. I have read Ms. Mair's article. Then I reread it very carefully. Am I supposed to feel sorry for Sen. DiFi? Is this sympathy supposed to be automatic simply because she is marginally more sane that Sen. Boxer or the majority of Congressmen from California. Perhaps because she is not quite as unbalanced as Congressman Stark, I should give her a pat on the back. Yes, when the rubber meets the road, she will generally vote not to totally dismantle America and give it to the UN. Big deal. Isn't that setting the bar of acceptability awfully low. One could opine that Congresscritter Jane Harmon is better than Sen. DiFi, and I wouldn't vote for either of them.

If the whacked-out, tin foil hat crowd that now owns the Democrat party wishes to visit discipline on their members that have fleeting moments of sanity, so be it. The party is theirs, they own it. The more that the George Soros wing of the party does, the sooner the American electorate will awaken, come to their senses, and send these Socialist to Canada to enjoy their Socialism and let us non-Socialists return our country to the one that the founding fathers envisioned, invented, and set in motion.
-- Ken Shreve
On a very tiny island of sanity in Socialist New England

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