Posted on 11/15/2007 7:43:47 AM PST by SmithL
The new Democratic-led Congress has a 16 percent approval rating - no better than the rating of the Republican-led Congress a year ago - no doubt because voters see members clamoring to score points in the never-ending game of partisan gotcha instead of working to do what is best for the country. When a politician does try to do what is right, there is too often more downside than upside.
Consider the cheap shots that have come the way of Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California and Chuck Schumer of New York because they voted to confirm the nomination of now-Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey last week. New York Times columnist Frank Rich compared the Feinstein and Schumer vote to Pakistani strongman Pervez Musharraf's arrests of judges, lawyers and human-rights activists. A group of Democrats from the left wing of the party is trying to get the California Democratic Party's executive board to censure Feinstein for the Mukasey vote, as well as her vote to confirm federal judge Leslie Southwick in October.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Understand that DiFi is no pushover when it comes to confirming the picks of George W. Bush. Feinstein voted against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. She was an early and vocal critic of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before he resigned.
When Bush first nominated Mukasey, Feinstein and Schumer joined other Democrats in hailing Mukasey as about-the-best Bush nominee they could get - a solid improvement over Gonzales. Schumer explained that while Mukasey, a fellow New Yorker, "is certainly conservative," Mukasey also "would put the rule of law first and show independence from the White House." The National Journal's legal eagle Stuart Taylor Jr. wrote that Mukasey was "a superbly qualified man . . .
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DiFi has reached the top 3 most corrupt senators in American history.
After giving billions in no-bid contracts to her family while she was Chair of the committee, she only had to give up the seat.
Politicians have low approval ratings because America truly hates corruption.
Oh how fun it is to watch their hatred of Bush consume the DUmmies and defy all rational reasoning.
DiFi would have even LOWER numbers if her corruption were a front page story and she was being investigated as Tom DeLay was. Tom’s case STILL hasn’t gone to trial and it never will. Ronnie Earle did his job of forcing Tom out of office, he’ll never present the faulty case.
But heaven forbid that she steps out of lock step with Bush the haters.
Just as they did with Bill Clinton they will over look anything, as long as one votes their way.
We have reached a state in this country where I am happy if all a Senator wants to do is steal money. It is the ones with a negative agenda that I find more dangerous.
Another SF corrupt pol. The beat goes on.
...she musta got another military contract...shuuushhh
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