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Feinnstein is a very long running senator with a hugely entrenched power base. Because of that it's hard to remove her from office. She also despite being very
by jtmcmc 11y ago
Feinnstein is a very long running senator with a hugely entrenched power base. Because of that it's hard to remove her from office. She also despite being very authoritarian is fairly progressive in other respects so she is able to appeal to her base of older democrats in that respect.
I really really dislike her, but it totally makes sense that she is basically invulnerable within her senate seat.
- swang 11y agoThis is the reason why I don't fill in a ballot for her whenever her seat comes up. I know it's not going to do much, and I am not really sure I want a Republican in that seat (if that were even possible) since I doubt it would be any better than her positions. All I see with her about this is the hypocrisy of it all. She is totally fine with the NSA intervening in our lives, but threw a huge fit when the CIA was found to be spying on members of Congress. Yes, spying on the people is OK, but spying on Congress by the CIA is a "violation of separation of powers" and shouldn't be tolerated?
- protomyth 11y agoThat's why primary challenges are important. I doubt she'll be gone before she wants to be, but I was skeptical they could get Cantor also.