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...court on May 26, that remark has become the main source of conservative attacks. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told his followers on Twitter that Sotomayor was a "Latina woman racist" who should withdraw. (He later apologized.) Sotomayor expressed regret about her word choice to Senator Dianne Feinstein. But after the Senate Judiciary Committee released Sotomayor's complete list of speeches, it emerged that she had delivered many versions of the same stump speech - seven by one count - between 1994 and 2003. In all of them, she suggested that a judge who was a "wise woman...
...year-old golden boy with Getty money. There are large ambitions here - the Gettys, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein: they're thinking, President Newsom." - Tom Ammiano, a San Francisco supervisor, on Newsom's future, The New Yorker...
...Congresswoman Harman has many fans who advocate for her, and to juxtapose that on any other activities ... is just not correct. What is true is that everybody knows I don't respond to threats, so it wouldn't be useful to use them." Added Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein: "I know Jane Harman. I know her to be of the highest integrity. She has asked that all the materials connected with it be released, and I hope that her request is granted. I think it's very important that it be granted." Even a few Republicans defended Harman...
...better for greens would be the other major cash-for-clunkers bill circulating in Congress, this one co-sponsored by Democratic Representative Steve Israel and Democratic Senators Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein. Their bill would allow the junking of any vehicle that's more than three years old, provided its fuel economy comes in at less than 18 m.p.g. Any new car would need to have a fuel economy at least 25% better than the clunker to qualify - and rebates would reach up to $4,000. (All auto brands would qualify, foreign or domestic.) A 25% improvement would be enough...
...country's economy and created millions of refugees. At the U.N., South Africa has consistently defended some of the world's worst regimes - Burma and Sudan, as well as Zimbabwe - against punitive international measures, apparently more concerned about Western bullying than the way governments treat their own people. As Feinstein says, the ANC "hasn't sent a great signal to other countries in Africa that are trying to build democracy and progress...