Posted on 11/05/2007 3:29:37 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Any U.S. Senator will get unhappy visitors now and again, but Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has had a tough couple of days.
Everyone knew she would take heat for announcing Friday that shell give former judge Michael Mukasey a crucial Democratic vote in the Judiciary Committee for his confirmation as Attorney General. (Read her rationale for the vote here.) Sure enough, CodePink protestors went to Feinsteins home in San Franciscos Pacific Heights on Sunday with a simulated waterboarding device so people could try it out and decide for themselves whether or not the interrogation technique amounts to torture. Several Democrats including Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., refused to support Mukaseys confirmation after he wouldnt definitively say during his confirmation hearings that waterboarding is torture.
Feinstein was in D.C. on Sunday and so were other CODEPINK activists (including co-founder Medea Benjamin of San Francisco) who enacted a live waterboarding demonstration for Feinstein as she entered CNNs studios there:
At about 4 p.m. today, children ages 2 to 16 will arrive at Feinsteins San Francisco office (as well as the Los Angeles office of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.) to invite the Senators to their homes to experience Thanksgiving on $1 a meal the amount most Food Stamp recipients can afford.
Sent by the California Association of Food Banks, the kids are urging lawmakers to support full funding for the Food Stamp program in the 2007 Farm Bill (H.R. 2419), which reaches the Senate floor today and will set the programs budget for the next five years. Though the Senate recently made a move to increase funding for the Food Stamp program by $1 billion over 5 years, neither of Californias Senators have guaranteed that they would vote yes on a funding increase. About 2 million Californians, or about 5.5 percent of the states population, rely on Food Stamps; about 80 percent of those households include children.
The kids will bring home-baked pumpkin pie charts depicting the percentage of a modest Thanksgiving meal that the current average Food Stamp benefit of $1.09 per person per meal can purchase (8.9%). Although the minimum monthly benefit has remained frozen at just $10 since the Food Stamp programs inception in 1977, the price of a Thanksgiving meal for a California family of four has risen by more than 300 percent.
At least the activists arent planning to waterboard the kids in her offices lobby.
And always remember that the Geneva Conventions apply to UNIFORMED combatants.
DiFi doesn’t look amused at all.. too bad. I agree that the Pinkos are insufferable. Too bad she didn’t just hang it up as is.
If she had any class , she’d resign her seat and take Babs with. The only downside if that ever happened, aRnie would probably appoint Maria and Susan Kennedy in their places. ;-)
and then there's Hollywood - maybe God's getting his chess pieces in place ==
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