... Is Good for the Gander

The Honorable Senator, and former chairmen of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON), Dianne Feinstein, or should I say Feinstain (as in stain of corruption) has again demonstrated her uncanny talent for blatant hypocrisy while leading the charge to bring down Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Demonstrating a talent for talking out of both sides of her mouth that would make a ventriloquist blush, Sen. Feinstain has excoriated not only the Attorney General and the Bush administration but also Senate colleague Pete Domenici for playing politics with US Attorneys.

Feinstain has repeatedly held up Carol Lam, the former US Attorney from San Diego as the designated poster child for political meddling, stating that, “It is a real surprise to me that you would say here that the reason for her dismissal was immigration cases,” and producing a recent letter from a top federal immigration official in San Diego praising Lam's record in combating immigrant smuggling.

What surprises me is how Senator Feinstain is capable of saying those words with a straight face. In a letter from Feinstain to Attorney General Gonzales dated July 15th 2006, Feinstain expresses frustration at the lax prosecution of immigration cases by US Attorney Lam and requesting to know what can be done to correct what she considered some of the most restrictive guidelines for prosecution in the entire nation. She points out in her letter that in FY 2005 Border Patrol Agents apprehended over 180,000 illegal aliens yet the US Attorney' s Office in Southern California (presided over by Lam) convicted a meagre 649 aliens for related offenses.

(read it on page 20 at http://www.judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/DOJDocsPt11-5070319.pdf)

Now, less than a year later, Feinstain is singing Ms. Lam's praises while at the same time fingering Pete Domenici for making similiar complaints concerning the US Attorney from New Mexico, David C. Iglesias', failure to push forward on varying prosecutions in his district. Now the mainstream media and blogs from the leftward land of silliness want Domenici on ethics charges while Feinstain skips away once again to get her face plastered on the small screen for her commitment to ethics, justice and the american way while at the same time enjoying all the money her husband made in defense contracts while his wife chaired the committee that approved them.

I know the Dems enjoy a good dose of double standards before bed but could they at least be discreet about it.

What's Good For the Goose....

“In the last election, the message was loud and clear: It’s time to change the way business is done in the nation’s capitol,” Senator Feinstein said. “Passage of this ethics reform package is the straightest, simplest thing we could do to show we have a different Congress in place.” http://feinstein.senate.gov/07releases/r-rules-bill.htm

These words, culled from the Senate website of the illustrious Senator Feinstein should (though I doubt they will) be coming back to haunt the Senator in the form of a resignation, hers, if there is any shame left within the Democrat party. For those of you who have missed the mediocre news coverage of Senator Feinstein’s hasty retreat from her position as Chairmen of the Senate Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee this is the basics.

The Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) is tasked with overseeing the appropriations of funds for military construction as well as quality of life issues for service men and women, such as housing and medical care ( e.g. the much and deservingly maligned Walter Reed). For six years as the ranking member of MILCON, Feinstein oversaw and approved billions of dollars worth of defense contracts awarded to Richard C. Blum, the owner of two major defense contractors, and who, by the way, is Senator Feinstein’s husband. And to think that the media had me convinced that the GOP had a lock on corruption.

While the cup of Kool-Aid passed me by when it comes to thinking all Republicans are pure as wind driven snow I would like to ask when the press conference demanding independent investigators, resignations and who knew what and when did they know it is going to take place. I would hate to miss a chance to hear Harry “Shady Land Deal” Reed pontificate on the evils of Republican… I mean Democrat corruption or Uncle Teddy Kennedy try to figure out where he is on live television. It’s not that I want to take away Alberto Gonzales’ moment in the sun but I was really looking forward to the all new ethical Congress I was promised by the left last November.

By the way Dianne, as a member of the military I would like to thank you for the excellent job your committee did providing congressional over site for hospitals like Walter Reed. Job performance like that is deserving of a whole lot of time off.