SFist: Dianne Feinstein Fit To Be Tied Over Oil Spill

manys

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:05:09 -0800

Ha ha, yeah theo: "Oil companies should not be held hostage to costly litigation in what is essentially a complaint about commercial activities."

manys

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:56:42 -0800

This is all Dan White's fault.

theo

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:35:24 -0800

I'm surprised she hasn't proposed a Senate bill giving immunity to the pilot and COSCO, and indemnifying all the companies involved. The potential liabilities aren't small and I doubt she would want her corporate friends to be operating in such an uncertain legal climate. If it's good enough for the telecoms...

mariconsoy

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:12:19 -0800

Plus she has a bad hairdo, and wears the same god damned pearls all the time. She probably has plastic coverings on her furniture, and pays the servants minimum wages.

bluecanary

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:58:17 -0800

I can only echo SFMike's comment.

sfmike

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:19:49 -0800

She may be the only local politician who I seriously, personally despise. She's an authoritarian schoolmarm filled with self-righteousness who has been a disaster for most of her constituents during her entire career. Her recent buddy-buddy moment with our criminal president was just yet another sickening example of her delightful values. Plus, she has a crook for a husband who hasn't seen a pot of public money that he didn't try to get a cut from, including Iraq construction money and California pension funds. And she's lecturing who, exactly?

crumbrye

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:17:04 -0800

One of the ways Oil corporations convince Americans that oil is the best energy source available is by insisting that current technologies guarantee the safest, cleanest, and most secure means for drilling and transporting oil. The public relations machine run by oil companies is so smooth, it has been successful at staving off government investment in renewable energy technologies, auto industry investment in more efficient automobiles, and attempts to block drilling in America's most serene natural habitats. Again and again we are all duped by this enormously powerful industry that acts as the perpetual victim while reaping the world's largest revenues in history. http://greenpieceblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/oil-spills-on-2-coasts.html

mariconsoy

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:15:12 -0800

It doesn't look like we'll be getting much federal disaster funding. Di wasn't holding Bush's arm in the picture this time.

Ciaran

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:03:06 -0800

Hey Diane, why not write to your Senator? I believe it's congress that's ultimately responsible for all these agencies.

Greg

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:35:44 -0800

Yeah, well I don't see DiFi really doing anything in her job as Senator that will really prevent this kind of thing in the future...but hey she's posturing and that's lovely. Personally I'm beginning to wonder if this so called accident really should be considered an act of terrorism - it's really f*cked up the Bay pretty good, and it's really exposed how unprepared the entire Bay Area is for a real disaster. God help us when the quake comes.