FEINSTEIN: Hun, it’s time for you to retire!

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, from a ruthless politico standpoint, this could have been avoided. Bidenworld should have used his trip to campaign during the CA recall in 2021 as an opportunity to pull Newsom/Feinstein aside and figure out a preferred successor. Now Dems have borked themselves on federal judge appointees for the time being (which frankly, is the most substantial thing that can get done with a split Congress) AND due to the open seat in California, you have a race between two Dems sucking up donor money in a deep blue state when they're already going to be playing defense in 5 other races on the 2024 map.

According to FEC fundraising totals, $11 million over the past 3 months went to Schiff+Porter. We're still a year out from the CA primary. It's poor resource allocation. The former political finance consultant within me weeps.

It’s even worse because a) Newsom said at some point that if Feinstein resigned he would appoint a Black woman and b) it’s not just Porter and Schiff, Barbara Lee is also running, so if Newsom fulfills his promise he picks one of the three candidates running in the primary and bumps them up so they’re running as an incumbent. There are some good caretaker candidates like Jerry Brown or Barbara Boxer or my girl crush Jackie Speier but none of them are Black women.

Identity politics strikes again.
Will the Democrats ever learn?

Imagine if he said he’d only appoint a white woman

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Anonymous wrote:You ageist jerks! She needs to be allow the full amount of time to recover and then some.

I would feel exactly the same way if Jon Ossoff were screwing up the committee's business with an extended absence.

I’m the PP who revived this thread last week. There is an argument that this could be sexist/ageist because no Democrats were saying this about Fetterman who also took an extended absence from the judiciary committee, until he announced that he would be returning to work today. I still think she needs to go, though.

Or because Fetterman just got elected and his health was a major campaign issue. Dems would not look great doing a flip flop like that so soon after he entered the Senate.

Well his health was an issue during the election and the voters still elected him. He also is not on the judicial committee. The dems need to appoint judges now. Feinstein’s situation makes people remember the RGB self inflected disaster.

Fetterman is indeed on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which makes the parallel to Feinstein direct. It’s been without both of them for months. I’m annoyed at Schumer for putting him on there with health issues, plus I think only lawyers should be on the Judiciary Committee.
https://www.congress.gov/member/john-fetterman/F000479

Did you read your own link dumbass?

I did. His committees are
Finance [8]
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [8]
Judiciary [6]
Commerce, Science, and Transportation [4]
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Unfortunately your link is wrong. It conflicts with this: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members

That poster is listing the committees for bills that he is co-sponsored. The list isn't even complete, because they forgot to click down. Fetterman actually sits on TEN Senate Committees!! Quite impressive!

Senate Committee
Finance [8] No
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [8]No
Judiciary [6]no
Commerce, Science, and Transportation [4]no
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry [3]
Foreign Relations [3]no
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs [3]no
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs [2]
Armed Services [1]no
Rules and Administration

no

Wow what a dumba$$. He is on three committees.

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Environment & Public Works

WASHINGTON, DC – Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman today announced that he will serve on the powerful U.S. Senate Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; and Environment & Public Works. He will also serve on the critical Joint Economic Committee and the Special Committee on Aging. Fetterman’s committee assignments put him in a strong position to deliver for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/press-releases/fetterman-to-join-agriculture-banking-aging-and-environment-public-works-committees/

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Anonymous wrote:You ageist jerks! She needs to be allow the full amount of time to recover and then some.

I would feel exactly the same way if Jon Ossoff were screwing up the committee's business with an extended absence.

I’m the PP who revived this thread last week. There is an argument that this could be sexist/ageist because no Democrats were saying this about Fetterman who also took an extended absence from the judiciary committee, until he announced that he would be returning to work today. I still think she needs to go, though.

Or because Fetterman just got elected and his health was a major campaign issue. Dems would not look great doing a flip flop like that so soon after he entered the Senate.

Well his health was an issue during the election and the voters still elected him. He also is not on the judicial committee. The dems need to appoint judges now. Feinstein’s situation makes people remember the RGB self inflected disaster.

Fetterman is indeed on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which makes the parallel to Feinstein direct. It’s been without both of them for months. I’m annoyed at Schumer for putting him on there with health issues, plus I think only lawyers should be on the Judiciary Committee.
https://www.congress.gov/member/john-fetterman/F000479

Did you read your own link dumbass?

I did. His committees are
Finance [8]
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [8]
Judiciary [6]
Commerce, Science, and Transportation [4]
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Unfortunately your link is wrong. It conflicts with this: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members

That poster is listing the committees for bills that he is co-sponsored. The list isn't even complete, because they forgot to click down. Fetterman actually sits on TEN Senate Committees!! Quite impressive!

Senate Committee
Finance [8] No
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [8]No
Judiciary [6]no
Commerce, Science, and Transportation [4]no
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry [3]
Foreign Relations [3]no
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs [3]no
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs [2]
Armed Services [1]no
Rules and Administration

no

Wow what a dumba$$. He is on three committees.

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Environment & Public Works

WASHINGTON, DC – Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman today announced that he will serve on the powerful U.S. Senate Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; and Environment & Public Works. He will also serve on the critical Joint Economic Committee and the Special Committee on Aging. Fetterman’s committee assignments put him in a strong position to deliver for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/press-releases/fetterman-to-join-agriculture-banking-aging-and-environment-public-works-committees/

Could you not tell that that post was sarcastically making fun of the previous post?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why do people want to work until they drop dead? I’m 43 and would quit TODAY if I didn’t need the money.

Well that sort illuminates how much “work” is involved with her position.
But I imagine her staff wants to keep there jobs and are part of the problem here

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people want to work until they drop dead? I’m 43 and would quit TODAY if I didn’t need the money.

Well that sort illuminates how much “work” is involved with her position.
But I imagine her staff wants to keep there jobs and are part of the problem here

I’m pretty sure they won’t have trouble finding new positions. That’s how it goes on the Hill? I’ve heard this a few times and I don’t buy that her staff is the problem unless there’s some tea that needs spilling.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, from a ruthless politico standpoint, this could have been avoided. Bidenworld should have used his trip to campaign during the CA recall in 2021 as an opportunity to pull Newsom/Feinstein aside and figure out a preferred successor. Now Dems have borked themselves on federal judge appointees for the time being (which frankly, is the most substantial thing that can get done with a split Congress) AND due to the open seat in California, you have a race between two Dems sucking up donor money in a deep blue state when they're already going to be playing defense in 5 other races on the 2024 map.

According to FEC fundraising totals, $11 million over the past 3 months went to Schiff+Porter. We're still a year out from the CA primary. It's poor resource allocation. The former political finance consultant within me weeps.

It’s even worse because a) Newsom said at some point that if Feinstein resigned he would appoint a Black woman and b) it’s not just Porter and Schiff, Barbara Lee is also running, so if Newsom fulfills his promise he picks one of the three candidates running in the primary and bumps them up so they’re running as an incumbent. There are some good caretaker candidates like Jerry Brown or Barbara Boxer or my girl crush Jackie Speier but none of them are Black women.

Identity politics strikes again.
Will the Democrats ever learn?

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a great justice. Kamala Harris, other than RWNJs hating her like crazy, has been fine.

You, on the other hand, will always be racist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, from a ruthless politico standpoint, this could have been avoided. Bidenworld should have used his trip to campaign during the CA recall in 2021 as an opportunity to pull Newsom/Feinstein aside and figure out a preferred successor. Now Dems have borked themselves on federal judge appointees for the time being (which frankly, is the most substantial thing that can get done with a split Congress) AND due to the open seat in California, you have a race between two Dems sucking up donor money in a deep blue state when they're already going to be playing defense in 5 other races on the 2024 map.

According to FEC fundraising totals, $11 million over the past 3 months went to Schiff+Porter. We're still a year out from the CA primary. It's poor resource allocation. The former political finance consultant within me weeps.

It’s even worse because a) Newsom said at some point that if Feinstein resigned he would appoint a Black woman and b) it’s not just Porter and Schiff, Barbara Lee is also running, so if Newsom fulfills his promise he picks one of the three candidates running in the primary and bumps them up so they’re running as an incumbent. There are some good caretaker candidates like Jerry Brown or Barbara Boxer or my girl crush Jackie Speier but none of them are Black women.

Identity politics strikes again.
Will the Democrats ever learn?

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a great justice. Kamala Harris, other than RWNJs hating her like crazy, has been fine.

You, on the other hand, will always be racist.

Are any of the current justices really "great"? This court seems lame.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, from a ruthless politico standpoint, this could have been avoided. Bidenworld should have used his trip to campaign during the CA recall in 2021 as an opportunity to pull Newsom/Feinstein aside and figure out a preferred successor. Now Dems have borked themselves on federal judge appointees for the time being (which frankly, is the most substantial thing that can get done with a split Congress) AND due to the open seat in California, you have a race between two Dems sucking up donor money in a deep blue state when they're already going to be playing defense in 5 other races on the 2024 map.

According to FEC fundraising totals, $11 million over the past 3 months went to Schiff+Porter. We're still a year out from the CA primary. It's poor resource allocation. The former political finance consultant within me weeps.

It’s even worse because a) Newsom said at some point that if Feinstein resigned he would appoint a Black woman and b) it’s not just Porter and Schiff, Barbara Lee is also running, so if Newsom fulfills his promise he picks one of the three candidates running in the primary and bumps them up so they’re running as an incumbent. There are some good caretaker candidates like Jerry Brown or Barbara Boxer or my girl crush Jackie Speier but none of them are Black women.

Identity politics strikes again.
Will the Democrats ever learn?

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a great justice. Kamala Harris, other than RWNJs hating her like crazy, has been fine.

You, on the other hand, will always be racist.

Are any of the current justices really "great"? This court seems lame.

She will have her opportunity to shine once she gets to write a majority opinion...someday...

[Anonymous]

Yentas doing yenta things

rbg, difi all the same

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Anonymous wrote:You ageist jerks! She needs to be allow the full amount of time to recover and then some.

I would feel exactly the same way if Jon Ossoff were screwing up the committee's business with an extended absence.

I’m the PP who revived this thread last week. There is an argument that this could be sexist/ageist because no Democrats were saying this about Fetterman who also took an extended absence from the judiciary committee, until he announced that he would be returning to work today. I still think she needs to go, though.

Or because Fetterman just got elected and his health was a major campaign issue. Dems would not look great doing a flip flop like that so soon after he entered the Senate.

Well his health was an issue during the election and the voters still elected him. He also is not on the judicial committee. The dems need to appoint judges now. Feinstein’s situation makes people remember the RGB self inflected disaster.

Fetterman is indeed on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which makes the parallel to Feinstein direct. It’s been without both of them for months. I’m annoyed at Schumer for putting him on there with health issues, plus I think only lawyers should be on the Judiciary Committee.
https://www.congress.gov/member/john-fetterman/F000479

Did you read your own link dumbass?

I did. His committees are
Finance [8]
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [8]
Judiciary [6]
Commerce, Science, and Transportation [4]
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Unfortunately your link is wrong. It conflicts with this: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members

That poster is listing the committees for bills that he is co-sponsored. The list isn't even complete, because they forgot to click down. Fetterman actually sits on TEN Senate Committees!! Quite impressive!

Senate Committee
Finance [8] No
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [8]No
Judiciary [6]no
Commerce, Science, and Transportation [4]no
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry [3]
Foreign Relations [3]no
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs [3]no
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs [2]
Armed Services [1]no
Rules and Administration

no

Wow what a dumba$$. He is on three committees.

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Environment & Public Works

WASHINGTON, DC – Pennsylvania U.S. Senator John Fetterman today announced that he will serve on the powerful U.S. Senate Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; and Environment & Public Works. He will also serve on the critical Joint Economic Committee and the Special Committee on Aging. Fetterman’s committee assignments put him in a strong position to deliver for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
https://www.fetterman.senate.gov/press-releases/fetterman-to-join-agriculture-banking-aging-and-environment-public-works-committees/

Could you not tell that that post was sarcastically making fun of the previous post?

Lol no it is too hard to tell any more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, from a ruthless politico standpoint, this could have been avoided. Bidenworld should have used his trip to campaign during the CA recall in 2021 as an opportunity to pull Newsom/Feinstein aside and figure out a preferred successor. Now Dems have borked themselves on federal judge appointees for the time being (which frankly, is the most substantial thing that can get done with a split Congress) AND due to the open seat in California, you have a race between two Dems sucking up donor money in a deep blue state when they're already going to be playing defense in 5 other races on the 2024 map.

According to FEC fundraising totals, $11 million over the past 3 months went to Schiff+Porter. We're still a year out from the CA primary. It's poor resource allocation. The former political finance consultant within me weeps.

It’s even worse because a) Newsom said at some point that if Feinstein resigned he would appoint a Black woman and b) it’s not just Porter and Schiff, Barbara Lee is also running, so if Newsom fulfills his promise he picks one of the three candidates running in the primary and bumps them up so they’re running as an incumbent. There are some good caretaker candidates like Jerry Brown or Barbara Boxer or my girl crush Jackie Speier but none of them are Black women.

Identity politics strikes again.
Will the Democrats ever learn?

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a great justice. Kamala Harris, other than RWNJs hating her like crazy, has been fine.

You, on the other hand, will always be racist.

Are any of the current justices really "great"? This court seems lame.

Yes. Ketanji Brown Jackson. That’s why I mentioned her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, from a ruthless politico standpoint, this could have been avoided. Bidenworld should have used his trip to campaign during the CA recall in 2021 as an opportunity to pull Newsom/Feinstein aside and figure out a preferred successor. Now Dems have borked themselves on federal judge appointees for the time being (which frankly, is the most substantial thing that can get done with a split Congress) AND due to the open seat in California, you have a race between two Dems sucking up donor money in a deep blue state when they're already going to be playing defense in 5 other races on the 2024 map.

According to FEC fundraising totals, $11 million over the past 3 months went to Schiff+Porter. We're still a year out from the CA primary. It's poor resource allocation. The former political finance consultant within me weeps.

It’s even worse because a) Newsom said at some point that if Feinstein resigned he would appoint a Black woman and b) it’s not just Porter and Schiff, Barbara Lee is also running, so if Newsom fulfills his promise he picks one of the three candidates running in the primary and bumps them up so they’re running as an incumbent. There are some good caretaker candidates like Jerry Brown or Barbara Boxer or my girl crush Jackie Speier but none of them are Black women.

Identity politics strikes again.
Will the Democrats ever learn?

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a great justice. Kamala Harris, other than RWNJs hating her like crazy, has been fine.

You, on the other hand, will always be racist.

Are any of the current justices really "great"? This court seems lame.

Yes. Ketanji Brown Jackson. That’s why I mentioned her.

What about her is great? I've not been paying attention to this Court. Any good Opinions or oral args where she was particularly good?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, from a ruthless politico standpoint, this could have been avoided. Bidenworld should have used his trip to campaign during the CA recall in 2021 as an opportunity to pull Newsom/Feinstein aside and figure out a preferred successor. Now Dems have borked themselves on federal judge appointees for the time being (which frankly, is the most substantial thing that can get done with a split Congress) AND due to the open seat in California, you have a race between two Dems sucking up donor money in a deep blue state when they're already going to be playing defense in 5 other races on the 2024 map.

According to FEC fundraising totals, $11 million over the past 3 months went to Schiff+Porter. We're still a year out from the CA primary. It's poor resource allocation. The former political finance consultant within me weeps.

It’s even worse because a) Newsom said at some point that if Feinstein resigned he would appoint a Black woman and b) it’s not just Porter and Schiff, Barbara Lee is also running, so if Newsom fulfills his promise he picks one of the three candidates running in the primary and bumps them up so they’re running as an incumbent. There are some good caretaker candidates like Jerry Brown or Barbara Boxer or my girl crush Jackie Speier but none of them are Black women.

Identity politics strikes again.
Will the Democrats ever learn?

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a great justice. Kamala Harris, other than RWNJs hating her like crazy, has been fine.

You, on the other hand, will always be racist.

Are any of the current justices really "great"? This court seems lame.

Yes. Ketanji Brown Jackson. That’s why I mentioned her.

What about her is great? I've not been paying attention to this Court. Any good Opinions or oral args where she was particularly good?

https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/12/supreme-court-new-bench-with-ketanji-brown-jackson-justices-speaking-more-oral-arguments/

[Anonymous]

Feinstein is reminding me of RBG at the end. They both thought that they were more important than their ideals and hung on long enough to gravely damage what they believed in. If Feinstein does't step down before 2024, and Biden loses then she's helped cement a conservative judiciary just as much as RBG did by not resigning while Obama had the senate.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, from a ruthless politico standpoint, this could have been avoided. Bidenworld should have used his trip to campaign during the CA recall in 2021 as an opportunity to pull Newsom/Feinstein aside and figure out a preferred successor. Now Dems have borked themselves on federal judge appointees for the time being (which frankly, is the most substantial thing that can get done with a split Congress) AND due to the open seat in California, you have a race between two Dems sucking up donor money in a deep blue state when they're already going to be playing defense in 5 other races on the 2024 map.

According to FEC fundraising totals, $11 million over the past 3 months went to Schiff+Porter. We're still a year out from the CA primary. It's poor resource allocation. The former political finance consultant within me weeps.

It’s even worse because a) Newsom said at some point that if Feinstein resigned he would appoint a Black woman and b) it’s not just Porter and Schiff, Barbara Lee is also running, so if Newsom fulfills his promise he picks one of the three candidates running in the primary and bumps them up so they’re running as an incumbent. There are some good caretaker candidates like Jerry Brown or Barbara Boxer or my girl crush Jackie Speier but none of them are Black women.

Identity politics strikes again.
Will the Democrats ever learn?

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been a great justice. Kamala Harris, other than RWNJs hating her like crazy, has been fine.

You, on the other hand, will always be racist.

Are any of the current justices really "great"? This court seems lame.

Yes. Ketanji Brown Jackson. That’s why I mentioned her.

What about her is great? I've not been paying attention to this Court. Any good Opinions or oral args where she was particularly good?

https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/12/supreme-court-new-bench-with-ketanji-brown-jackson-justices-speaking-more-oral-arguments/

"More" does not necessarily mean "better."