Feinstein Resigns
Senator exits MILCON following Metro exposé, vet-care scandal
http://www.metroactive.com/metro/03.21.07/dianne-feinstein-resigns-0712.html#

I’d be curious to see who’s paying her to support H1-B and L-1 visas to import foreign workers to take American jobs, even while the country struggles under the worst crisis since the Great Depression. Local companies such as Cisco Systems, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems are among the largest users of the slave labor visa programs. I’ve written to Dianne, and she doesn’t care one bit that 50% of California’s high tech workers are forced out of the industry during each recession as jobs are shipped overseas and workers are imported to replace the last few highly educated Americans left employed.

She’s big on saying “government”, “options”, and “in health care reform” in the same breath, but never consecutively! She panders, then votes as her contributors demand.

She’s evil and has to go. Please badger your voting friends.

I invite you all to read this article from http://www.usliberals.about.com:

Obama Drops the Ball on Healthcare Leadership
Thursday June 18, 2009
President Obama has dropped the ball on leading the healthcare debate, his supposed top issue.

And it’s causing a lot of Democrats to echo Bill Maher’s sharp sentiments last week: “This is not getting the job done, and this isn’t what I voted for.”

Obama has badly blown it, thus far, on providing healthcare reform leadership for three main reasons:

* The Obama White House has not provided a coherent, detailed plan or legislative package for the healthcare reform that the President seeks and campaigned on.

Instead, a massive, 650-page document, authored by Ted Kennedy and quietly quasi-blessed by Obama, was presented to key Congressional committees this week with three major sections still entirely blank.
* President Obama has neither explained his plan to the American people, nor addressed the myriad of legitimate worries Americans have about massive healthcare insurance changes.

Instead, he orates in vague bromides and cheery, campaign-style generalities at town halls and interest groups conventions. Then sends his surrogates out to bob-and-weave with the press.
* The Obama White House hasn’t told Americans either what his plan will cost, or how he plans for us to pay for it.

And most frighteningly, the Obama White House seems to have no real idea what their healthcare reform ideas will cost, judging by Democrat’s shocked embarrassment this week at the Congressional Budget Office’s objective cost analysis of Sen. Ted Kennedy’s plan.

It’s easy, and great fun, to shop for the shiny luxury car of my dreams. It’s dumb, though, to waste my time if I don’t have the money to pay for it. It’s even dumber if, knowing that my finances are limited, I don’t ask the car’s price.

President Obama’s abdication of leadership, thus far, on his signature issue makes me painfully wonder: Has he done his homework, and the hard policy work, on healthcare? Does Obama do his homework, or is all about posing and posturing, then pushing the hard work down on others?

Or, as Bill Maher smartly said:

“…we’re kind of wondering when you’re going to actually do something. Sorry folks, but this President is not fighting for real healthcare reform.”

Look here for much more on the healthcare reform debate. Next up: quick-reading pros & cons of each type of healthcare plan under consideration. To start, see Healthcare Plan Definitions, which translates all the mumbo-jumbo terms into everyday language.

***I am a Democrat and agree with Dianne on this. Her position has a lot of truth to it since the bill is not holding up to its promise. Why should she be moved by criticism that is, in her view and mine, unfounded? Those who are criticizing her should realize there is a difference in criticizing one for being against universal health care and criticizing one for being against a bad proposal for universal health care..DiFi is the latter. And she made it clear she is NOT MOVED by the BILL…it has NOTHING to do with not caring for the PEOPLE! She is unmoved by those criticizing a legitimate position of hers and their criticism having no merit (which it does not. Clearly this bill needs to be finetuned). These groups criticizing her should step back and realize she is for universal health care but feels Obama’s proposal lacks responsibility…and her saying she is unmoved by their criticism is her saying that their criticisms are poorly constructed.

Learn to read between the lines, people! DiFi is the most popular politician in California for a reason-she gets the job done. I would know since I just finished an internship with her and I can tell you that all these “She does not care about her constituents” remarks are baloney. She DOES listen to constituents, even if she disagrees. I would know since I worked for her.***

Oh, and to our wingnut troll John Boy: try looking at the Wall Street Journal / NBC poll, which says that 76% support a public option, d-bag.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/17/obama-boost-new-poll-show_n_217175.html

It would be better for the people of California if she leaves the Senate after her term ends. She won’t willingly give up her position, but she has lost her credibility and has become a liability for our State.

I think she will be surprised at how much support she has permanently lost among the voters.

Any time there’s a conflict between the interests of average Californians and big business making out like bandits, she sides with business every time.