[Originally posted at NorCal Politics on January 30, 2006]
Today was a bad day in the United States Senate. Nineteen Democratic Senators chose to surrender, rather than fight for their country.
Our Senators were not among them. Both Senator Feinstein and Senator Boxer voted against ending debate on the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
Please take a moment to thank both of them. They made Californians proud today.
( – promoted by SFBrianCL)
Barbara Boxer has politely suggested that Cindy Sheehan not run for Senate against Feinstein:
Washington — California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer on Tuesday urged anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan not to challenge the state’s senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, in the June Democratic primary.
But Boxer, a liberal former Marin County supervisor who strongly opposed the war in Iraq, said Sheehan might actually hurt her anti-war cause by jumping into the race against Feinstein, who is entering her 14th year in the Senate.
“I don’t think having (Sheehan) in the Senate election helps her at all,” Boxer told a roundtable of California reporters on Tuesday. “I think it might have the opposite effect.”
(SF Chron 2/8/06)
Well, I suppose Boxer’s protecting her friends, and I think Sheehan’s right. Sure doesn’t sound good, very establishment.