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pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 03:21 PM Jan 2018

BRAVO, SENATOR FEINSTEIN! Remember all the times people have disparaged Feinstein,

and even called her a DINO? And called for new blood, and were ready to throw away the advantage Feinstein gave her district in terms of seniority and experience?

Well, that seniority makes her the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and her experience gave her the understanding of what they have been dealing with in the Russia investigation. And her personal STRENGTH gave her the BRAVERY to stick out her neck and release the transcript of the Fusion GPS testimony.

THANK YOU, SENATOR FEINSTEIN!!!!










Here is the transcript:

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/3/9/3974a291-ddbe-4525-9ed1-22bab43c05ae/934A3562824CACA7BB4D915E97709D2F.simpson-transcript-redacted.pdf


When I posted this yesterday, I couldn't have guessed that my HERO would act today!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210077463

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BRAVO, SENATOR FEINSTEIN! Remember all the times people have disparaged Feinstein, (Original Post) pnwmom Jan 2018 OP
Indeed. Pay attention & learn. Experience teaches us. Wwcd Jan 2018 #1
Now that is a brave woman. You go girl!!!!!!!! OregonBlue Jan 2018 #2
Thank you! Senator Feinstein! You are an amazing woman of courage. Alice11111 Jan 2018 #3
She's reached her limit of BS nini Jan 2018 #4
Yes, she has a high ranking position and she did something good with it. Yes, losing that high JCanete Jan 2018 #5
Slate of disappointment? This is DEMOCRATIC underground Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #28
what does that mean? I can't be disappointed with my democratic senators at times or even often? JCanete Jan 2018 #35
"If you want to do a side by side of good versus bad to make a case" Renew Deal Jan 2018 #29
You also don't get shit done playing the purity game nini Jan 2018 #30
This is california, so we aren't at risk of losing to a Republican. Why go slightly left of the JCanete Jan 2018 #38
This is California, which sends some really obnoxious Repubs to Washington: Nixon, Reagan,... Hekate Jan 2018 #39
I'm really happy with her for this -- BUT RandomAccess Jan 2018 #6
I agree. . . RexCasual Jan 2018 #7
hah! Didn't even know about that. RandomAccess Jan 2018 #8
What Random Access said. irisblue Jan 2018 #11
This is what experience and seniority brings mcar Jan 2018 #9
She is not pure enough. murielm99 Jan 2018 #12
Yep mcar Jan 2018 #18
Damn Straight, Muriel Cha Jan 2018 #41
Very true. And it's not just the negative comments that illustrate the truth in your words... NurseJackie Jan 2018 #43
K&R Scurrilous Jan 2018 #10
I didn't know it was released and called the GOP members of the BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #13
Good for you, BigmanPigman! What a shock that must have been! pnwmom Jan 2018 #14
Let me just say... llmart Jan 2018 #21
Saying new blood is needed is not disparaging someone. But maybe it was BECAUSE she was under fire.. Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #15
Of course it is. And it's disregarding the value her seniority gives her in Congress. nt pnwmom Jan 2018 #17
Totally NOT disparaging to say that new blood is needed. Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #20
It's another way to criticize a woman for being too old. I don't hear people in Vermont pnwmom Jan 2018 #22
No, it's not. Yes, I've heard it about Bernie, too. And all long-timers. Not "old-timers." Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #23
A new Senator wouldn't have been the ranking member of Judiciary and that transcript wouldn't pnwmom Jan 2018 #25
And sometimes new blood is just what the dr. ordered. Has she said impeachment should be Honeycombe8 Jan 2018 #34
She isn't stupid enough to call for impeachment now, pnwmom Jan 2018 #36
Just called her office orangecrush Jan 2018 #16
Doing the right thing. ffr Jan 2018 #19
Amen RayStar Jan 2018 #24
I stand corrected (at least a little).... Upthevibe Jan 2018 #26
I am looking to see who congratulates her and who doesnt Eliot Rosewater Jan 2018 #27
Remember how she became Mayor of San Fransisco? She has been through a lot: mucifer Jan 2018 #31
Wow. No, I hadn't remembered. Thank you for sharing this. n/t pnwmom Jan 2018 #32
I remember this. murielm99 Jan 2018 #42
DiFi is my hero today. I am so pleased she is my Senator. But will DUers remember? ... Hekate Jan 2018 #33
... pnwmom Jan 2018 #37
### NurseJackie Jan 2018 #44
When her country needed her, she stepped up like a badass. eShirl Jan 2018 #40

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
3. Thank you! Senator Feinstein! You are an amazing woman of courage.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 03:29 PM
Jan 2018

Take that, Grassley, while you hem and haw, lie, and slither in the grass with other snakes.

SENATOR FEINSTEIN

nini

(16,670 posts)
4. She's reached her limit of BS
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 03:40 PM
Jan 2018

I have an inside source and she's PISSED.

I hope her move encourages the others to take those gloves off and get street level fighter mojo.

ENOUGH

 

JCanete

(5,272 posts)
5. Yes, she has a high ranking position and she did something good with it. Yes, losing that high
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 03:42 PM
Jan 2018

ranking position would be a great loss. Yes, I'd rather a more progressive democrat replace her, in the progressive state of California. These sorts of posts are so strange to me. You don't wipe a slate of disappointment clean with one good thing. If you want to do a side by side of good versus bad to make a case, then that may go some ways to explaining why people who want a primary challenger are wrong for wanting it, but just saying remember how people have disparaged Feinstein, well they are wearing egg on their face now har har...does not convince that we've been wrong to be down on her in the past.

nini

(16,670 posts)
30. You also don't get shit done playing the purity game
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:42 PM
Jan 2018

I wished I lived in lala land to think placing all approved progressives by the far left is the magic answer to the BS in DC.

Government is way more complicated than that.

 

JCanete

(5,272 posts)
38. This is california, so we aren't at risk of losing to a Republican. Why go slightly left of the
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 03:38 AM
Jan 2018

middle here?

Well, our alternative course has not yielded very good results, wouldn't you say? 1000 seats or so lost across local state and federal seats in 30 years? We've got a problem, and its not the occasional lefties running at the top.

I have no illusions about how complicated government is, nor how impossible it is to get elected unless you've made at least some friends of some industries, but the costs of that have been way too high, and while that has yielded shitty results against republicans, it has barred left-wing progressives from winning seats because they just don't have the purse strings to compete.

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
39. This is California, which sends some really obnoxious Repubs to Washington: Nixon, Reagan,...
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 04:41 AM
Jan 2018

...Issa, Rohrabacher... And more.

The coast is mostly, but by no mean all, liberal. As soon as you drive an hour or so inland, you hit bright red territory.

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
6. I'm really happy with her for this -- BUT
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 03:47 PM
Jan 2018

that doesn't erase all her past faults and failings. Sorry, it just doesn't.

Now if she goes forward with as much chutzpah on a continuing basis, she may win me over.

RexCasual

(171 posts)
7. I agree. . .
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 04:32 PM
Jan 2018

I'm from Cali, where she's been a hard-core prohibitionist for years, and done everything she could to keep ruining people's lives and sending them to jail for simple possession of cannabis. In this regard, she has been no better than Jeff Sessions.

That said, I can't thank her enough for her incredibly brave move in regards to the release of the Fusion transcripts. Almost makes up for her being a stalwart drug warrior. Almost.

But I digress ; Thank you, Senator Feinstein. You are my democratic "Hero of the Week". Keep up the good work and don't let these republican traitors conceal anything!

 

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)
8. hah! Didn't even know about that.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 04:34 PM
Jan 2018

Thanks for sharing it.

But, yes, definitely, she might even be hero of the month for me.

mcar

(42,210 posts)
9. This is what experience and seniority brings
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 04:39 PM
Jan 2018

Those on this board and elsewhere who called for her to be primaries don't seem to understand that.

murielm99

(30,656 posts)
12. She is not pure enough.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 05:41 PM
Jan 2018

We are seeing the negative comments in this thread already. Nothing is ever good enough for the far, far left.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
43. Very true. And it's not just the negative comments that illustrate the truth in your words...
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 06:19 PM
Jan 2018

... I think you probably understand what I mean, so I'll just leave it at that for obvious reasons.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
13. I didn't know it was released and called the GOP members of the
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 05:48 PM
Jan 2018

Judiciary Committee as I had already planned to do today. I called them all on Aug 29 after seeing Hatch and Grassely on Rachel when they said that they had no problem releasing the testimony. I saved all their numbers and I got voice mail after voice mail as I made my way down the list of the 11 senators. I finally got a real person with call number 7 at Sasse's office and he told me that Feinstein just released 300 pages. I almost dropped my phone. I called Feinstein (my rep) to thank her for releasing the testimony.

llmart

(15,499 posts)
21. Let me just say...
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:19 PM
Jan 2018

your tenacity and activism is admirable. Thank you. I do some but not nearly as much as you do.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
15. Saying new blood is needed is not disparaging someone. But maybe it was BECAUSE she was under fire..
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 05:55 PM
Jan 2018

that she did something she doesn't ordinarily do: buck the system, do what's necessary to get the truth out, reclaim our time.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
20. Totally NOT disparaging to say that new blood is needed.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:16 PM
Jan 2018

That has NOTHING to do with the particular person currently in office. It reflects the opinion that after a period of time, new blood is needed in a post. This is common for companies, as well. A fresh look at things, new perspective, more enthusiastic energy, etc.

Of course the one in the job currently has more seniority. People recommending new blood recognize there are drawbacks, as there are to anything.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
22. It's another way to criticize a woman for being too old. I don't hear people in Vermont
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:20 PM
Jan 2018

saying that "new blood is needed," even though Bernie is just a few years younger.

And the fact is, a new Dem wouldn't have been the ranking member of a key committee in the Senate. If DiFi had retired a few years ago, that transcript wouldn't have been released. It was the combination of her experience, her seniority, and her personal courage that made this to happen.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
23. No, it's not. Yes, I've heard it about Bernie, too. And all long-timers. Not "old-timers."
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:22 PM
Jan 2018

If you're a long-timer, you are going to be older, probably. BUT NOT NECESSARILY. It means fresh blood into the job and the organization. It's what keeps companies alive and competitive. Our Congress could use some of that, as could the Democratic Party. Too many long-timers, too comfortable in their jobs.

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
25. A new Senator wouldn't have been the ranking member of Judiciary and that transcript wouldn't
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:25 PM
Jan 2018

have been released.

Sometimes new blood isn't what is needed -- it's smart, stubborn, old blood that accomplished this release.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
34. And sometimes new blood is just what the dr. ordered. Has she said impeachment should be
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 03:26 AM
Jan 2018

considered? No. Did she speak up when her co-Senator Franken was railroaded out of the Senate? No.

She's high ranking, smart, and articulate. She is where she is for a reason.

But it is NOT (getting back to my original post) denigrating to state that new blood is needed. That's just a fact with all organizations and companies.

I'm not saying she should be replaced. It's not up to me.

Not sure that this one report release is worthy of a big pat on the back, though, like she did something extraordinary. Like call Sessions a liar (like Franken did...now there is an example of fresh blood, who just laid the facts out there).

pnwmom

(108,925 posts)
36. She isn't stupid enough to call for impeachment now,
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 03:37 AM
Jan 2018

when the Mueller report has not been completed, the Rethugs are in charge of both Houses of Congress, and there is zero chance of impeachment and conviction. Crying wolf in the Senate accomplishes nothing, expect to lower your credibility over time.

And she deserves huge credit for taking the unprecedented, extraordinary step of unilaterally releasing the transcript. Name a single time a minority member of Congress has even taken such a step. You can't, because it has never happened.

Did Bernie speak up when Franken was pushed out of the Senate? Why don't you complain about him, too? At 76, he's old enough to be on your target list for replacement with new blood.

Upthevibe

(7,880 posts)
26. I stand corrected (at least a little)....
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 06:30 PM
Jan 2018

As I and many of my fellow Californian DU'ers have expressed over the years, she's made some disappointing decisions. Having said that, I see what you mean about seniority...

murielm99

(30,656 posts)
42. I remember this.
Thu Jan 11, 2018, 05:02 PM
Jan 2018

The whole assassination was so shocking. The Twinkie defense and the verdict were shocking, too.

She is a great public servant. We can't forget the mayor who died. And Harvey Milk? He became a hero and an example for gay people everywhere.

I have two great senators in Illinois. But I am glad Senator Feinstein is there for all of us.

Hekate

(90,189 posts)
33. DiFi is my hero today. I am so pleased she is my Senator. But will DUers remember? ...
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 09:14 PM
Jan 2018

Somehow I fully expect to hear some of our own demanding she be primaried ... again. smh

Thank tou so much for publicizing this, pnwmom!

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