Thanks for your public service, Diane. Time to step aside for someone younger who will strongly push for 21st century progressive ideas. There’s no reason why one of the strongest Dem states in the union should have to put up with one of the least progressive Dem senators. If we were a swing state, maybe I’d be OK with it.
As much as I respect Sen.Feinstein and applaud her work in the Senate for the past 25 years, she might better serve her California constituents, her party, and the nation by mentoring a strong, younger, progressive, and viable Democratic candidate to succeed her in the 2018 election.
Beat it Diane. Fuck you and your husband for fleecing our government out of hundreds of millions. While you’re at it, take Schumer and Pelosi with you. Old people thinking they’re entitled and are the only ones that know how things work in Washington. GO AWAY. Make room for the FUTURE.
Agreed.
I’d like to see Adam Schiff.
He could move right into DiFi’s spot on Intelligence Committee given his experience on the House committee.
(Well, not ranking member yet)
I regretfully agree. She’s been wonderful and can best continue her legacy by mentoring and sponsoring a younger generation. Take a well deserved rest, too. I can’t believe she’s 83. She looks amazing…smart, alert, vibrantly alive.
I thought you’d mellowed after I read the nice exchange between you and srfromgr yesterday. I was mistaken.
The Democrats are the gang that can’t shoot straight due to the Clinton’s and Obama and the establishment like Diane Feinstein. Feinstien was the SF Mayor who tried to cover up the early days of the AIDS crisis to preserve tourism traffic…costing many gay men their health and their lives.
Diane is one of those Dems that is pro-corporate and has sold out the base for years…and because of them, we have Trump and runaway wealth concentration.
Time for Diane to go…we need new blood and hopefully very liberal blood.
Exactly. If states like Oklahoma send nuts like Inhofe, California needs to be lime Massachusetts and send strong liberal/progressives to grt the Overton window back on track.
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I agree with all of you, and I’ve probably known Dianne longer than most people here. She was mayor and president of the Board of Supervisors here in San Francisco, and led us through the crisis of the Moscone-Milk murders. But it’s time, and there are so many talented new Dems who deserve a turn including Schiff and also the new mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, who had the temerity to say no to the Raiders when they wanted public funds to build a stadium in OAK.
You can’t even spell her name right and there’s little else you do know. And of course she singlehandedly got trumpp elected. That’s in the wind, isn’t it?
Also, as an elder states-person of the Party, she could contribute her considerable experience and political savvy to Democratic campaigns nationwide. The Dems need to mount a massive effort to get young, intelligent, and energetic progressives elected across the country to everything from school boards and town councils to both houses of Congress. Ultimately that will be the only way to bring the reign of right-wing & Trumpian terror to a solid end.
You like having things both ways don’t you. I know, Feinstein is your fav so let’s never mind what her and hubby did in their complicity to rob the taxpayers over the years. Little Girl doesn’t want to go there.
God I hope she doesn’t run in 2018. There are so many potential young California democrats that would make great senators. I would love to see someone like Adam Schiff become California’s next Senator. Not the tired old DiFi.
Agreed 100%.
If there is one place where our bench is deep, it is California.
I’d be fine with DiFi, if she was holding a seat in a redder State as incumbency has its electoral advantages.
I didn’t know about Schaaf and the Raiders. Brava!
Sorry but she’s a hot button for me. I’ve followed her over the years as I still have friends in CA. What her and 3rd hubby have done in stealing taxpayer’s money is unconscionable. They’re both what’s wrong with this country. The Never Enough Club. Fuck everyone else. She’s one of the Pig Rich but b/c she’s a ‘D’ let’s let it slide. Which actually is okay with me up to a point. But here we’re talking hundreds of millions. Start with this and see if you can look the other way.
She represents everything that’s been wrong with the Democratic party for too long. Go enjoy your ill gotten gains in retirement.
Time for her to go. She’s done some great work on behalf of the public, but like the Clinton’s helped hand the economy completely over to Wall Street in the late 90s. Her vote to repeal Glass Steagall, the framework that protected Main Street from big banking gamblers after FDR put them in their place in '33, was shamefully short-sighted and self-interested. She and her husband have gotten richer and richer during her time in the Senate, while average middle class wages have stagnated.
Her then colleague, Barbara Boxer, rightly voted against it. To her credit, Di tried to help put that ugly genie back in the bottle with her fellow Corporate Dems’ creation of Dodd-Frank, but it doesn’t have the teeth to work long term and much of that bad fix will be undone by Trump and this Congress. So thanks for the good stuff Di, but it’s time to say buh-bye for the long-term bad stuff you helped to heap on the middle class.
