Many of you have repeatedly criticized Dead-eye Dick Cheney's relationship with Halliburton and the fact that Halliburton got Defense contracts in Iraq. Cheney was NEVER in a position to VOTE on any of the defense contracts but THAT didn't stop you after all he had been the head of Halliburton in the past and is now the Vice-Pres so THAT was enough for you guys to cry corruption.

http://www.metroactive.com/feinstein/

Well well well....

It turns out that Diane Feinstein's (Di Fi) hubby has a stake in TWO of the five largest defense contractors in Iraq etc. And Di Fi actually VOTED on awarding the contracts to her hubby's company.

So a little consistency test...

Do any of you Halliburton hatas see anything wrong with Di Fi's OBVIOUS conflict of interest???

Her and her husband are seriously wealthy. I'm sure she'll do anything for more money, even though shes in her golden years and can't take it with her. Another fine example of not a public servant, but a whore for money.

This woman ought to be in jail. But being that Republicans have no spine and the double standard that exists for liberals, she'll get a free pass.

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Double standard?! It is the standard.

Check this out: 95% (I'm an optimist!) of those bastards on Capitol Hill would suck the Devil's dick for a free lunch. I don't see how this is any different than the Haliburton/Cheney situation. Don't get your panties in a twist, Reps, your boys would do the same thing.

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It's different from Halliburton/Cheney in two ways;

1. Cheney never VOTED for defense contracts to Halliburton.
Di Fi did EXACTLY that with respect to her hubby's TWO companies. It's called a "conflict of interest" when you are voting to AWARD your HUSBAND'S company with a defense contract. She should not have voted. She did Cheney didn't.

2. Cheney/Halliburton has been EXTENSIVELY covered in the drive-by media whereas this story is so buried MOST OF YOU had not EVEN HEARD OF IT until I posted. If "our boy" had "done the same", Putz, the drive-by media would be shouting it from the rooftop as opposed to covering it up!!!

Will, you're right about the media. It's strange how they avoid some stories, but go hard and heavy on others. I'd really like to know their guidelines, and how in the hell all the networks seem to be in alignment. At least we can find these uncovered stories online. I bet they hate that, but no big deal, most Americans don't have the time to look, or don't trust "other" media sources.

Give me a break! Just because he didn't vote on it didn't mean he didn't have any influence. Where did you get that "drive by media" crack, Bill O'Reilly? It's pretty funny. Look, man, I'm not for either side, as I've said before. But you're quick to point out dem. stumblings but you totally blow off the trespasses of the rep's. All I'm saying is I think both sides are mirrors of one another.

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Putzdaddy, the fact that he didn't vote for it makes his "influence" far LESS BLATANT! It is one thing to "influence' something. Lobbyists do it all day long. It is quite another to actually VOTE for the largesse at taxpayer expense to your HUSBAND'S company. We can DEBATE about Cheney's involvement in Halliburton. THERE IS NO DEBATE about Di Fi's VOTING defense contracts to her hubby's company. It is a matter of record and a FACT!

As for my blowing off the trangressions of republicans you obviously haven't been here long. I'ver called for Bush's impeachment more than anyone here except clone 9 although I think he should be impeached for his betrayal at the border and not Iraq. I have been quick to criticize Bush and republicans in fact I currently have a thread up called, "Bush Funding Terrorists" so I'm hardly "in the pocket" of anyone. I support, egad brace yourself, IDEAS and will criticize anyone who opposes them regardless of their label.

The drive by media (a Rush Limbaugh remark for those who must know) is NOT objective and if it were ANY top Republican who had voted defense contracts to their spouse the drive-bys would be all over them!!!

You're the one talking about being in "pockets", dude, not me. You can't be in someone's pocket unless you owe someone something and I'm pretty sure that's not the case. You may have called for whatever, but you're not objective. And at the same time you're constantly calling someone out (dems) for not being objective. You can't see the hypocrisy in that? I don't give a shit what your political affiliation is, finger pointing won't solve it as I've said before. We have to start working as Americans and not continue to walk party lines. I think the dems are just as guilty as the reps on this. It's got to stop or we will eat ourselves and the rest of the world will swoop down and pick our bones clean while we constantly spin our wheels looking for who's to blame or blocking good ideas because someone in a different party came up with the idea. UNITY

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So Putz are you saying we should just ignore OBVIOUS malfeasance in Congress because we want "unity"? I mean in the Cheney case there were allegations that he INFLUENCED the decision to give those contracts to Halliburton (a company he formerly ran). There was not even ONE SCINTILLA of hard evidence to support this and the drive-by media went apeshit.

Feinstein ACTUALLY DID what Cheney was accused of and the drive-by media is dead silent.

And you wish to say that I'm not "objective" because I point out this OBVIOUS double standard. If by being "not objective" you mean that I only complain about Democrats, as you said, then I repeat, you are mistaken. I complain about ANYONE, regardless of party affiliation, who disagrees with my ideas. I have complained about Democrats, Republicans and various and sundry other types on these threads.

Now, it is true, that generally speaking my ideas line up more with the Republicans (at least to the extent that they pretend to be conservative) but when they stray I blast them to (witness my numerous threads blasting Bush).

IF, I were in the media and someone asked me about it I would reply that I am conservative. I wouldn't do a Dan Rather (a raging liberal if ever there were one) and try to claim to be the patron saint of objectivity. If I were in the media and the Cheney/Halliburton and DiFi/hubby's company stories came out, I would cover BOTH stories. Those are the two main problems I have with the drive-bys. They are liars (over 87 percent of them vote Democrat and yet they pretend to be objective) and their AGENDA is far more important to them than actually covering the news. And there are literally hundreds if not thousands of examples of this.