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This was little publicized but Democrat California United States Senator Dianne Feinstein announced on Friday that she opposed the Employee Free Choice Act – as it is currently written.

Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office put out a low-ball statement Friday making clear she won’t be supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, the labor movement’s top congressional priority, at least in its present form.

As a policy matter, the measure would make it easier for employees to organize unions; as a political one, it would give President Obama, who campaigned in support of the legislation, and majority Democrats in Congress, a visible achievement on behalf of workers at a time of seething public anger at CEOs and corporations.

A co-sponsor of the legislation in the last Congress, Feinstein in recent days has been the target of an organized netroots campaign to pressure her into coming out in favor of the bill. The online effort came during a three-day Capitol Hill lobbying effort by the Teamsters, which sent a delegation to her office Thursday.

While Feinstein does not face re-election until 2012 as a senator, her flip-flop on labor’s most crucial legislation would be problematic in a contested Democratic primary for governor — another sign that she is unlikely to enter the race for governor next year.

Card Check appears to be dead this session of Congress.

But, Feinstein has had conversions before. Remember Leon Panetta as CIA Director?

The LEFT might not immediatley be pleased with DiFi but Flap’s bet is that Card Check will be re-written and she will then climb on board.

Stockholders be damned. Obama is in control now.

Is private enterprise capitalism now dead in the United States?

Greta obviously wants to nip this type of story in the bud – particularly if it relates to her husband, John Coale and Scientology.

So, she has responded.

I have never given Governor Palin advice – she does not need it from me.  I don’t even have her phone number or her email address.  I don’t think I have ever had a conversation with her off camera and if I have, it was 45 seconds!  The goal in TV is to get tape and as much as you can so you run the camera every second.  (If you don’t believe me, ask the camera people who are with us at all times!) When you do interviews with politicians, you interview and the politician runs to the next event or interview. Even when we did the interview at her home in Alaska post election, we did the interview in the home with her in her kitchen, another news organization was standing by and followed with their interview (I think it was the Anchorage Daily News) while we went outside to interview her husband on his snow machine.

As for booking her, the article is not only wrong but disses the On The Record staff who works this story hard.  The producers are the ones who book her, who have made multiple trips to Alaska to work the story….staying there for days and days… and what I have done – which is not much compared to their heavy lifting -  is follow up emails – at the direction of our staff on the ground -  to her staff (yes, staff!)

With regards to her husband, John Coale:

As for my husband, everyone in the media sure has gotten themselves going with all sorts of wild imagination. We are laughing at it at home because with each story it gets wilder and wilder. You would think from the stories that my husband ran her VP campaign.  Yes, he advised her - after the election -  how to set up a PAC (big deal – it is common – routine – for politicians to set up a PAC – virtually every politician has one set up and there is nothing wrong with them.. and incidentally, the PAC was created to pay travel bills she had accumulated and would accumulate in the future and to contribute to other candidates …and the Pac was not to be her chief political advisers which is what the article accuses.)  And yes, he thought it wrong the way she was attacked in the media.  As a matter of fact, so did I think she was treated unfairly by the media (I don’t like gratuitous attacks…issues, yes….but not gratuitous attacks) and I am not the only one who thought that in the media.

My husband helped with the PAC – I did not -  AFTER the election when she was not running for office but trying to dig herself out from lawsuits, ethics complaints and unfair attacks by the media. Big deal.  So he was nice to her and wanted to help her and did help her.

There you have it.

But, the fact remains Greta HAS been carrying Sarah Palin’s water over at Fox News and her husband has been helping her for the future.

So what?

MSNBC has been carrying Obama’s water for over two years.

Here is the video

But, isn’t this the same Meghan McCain that was soooo upset when Laura Ingraham made a comment about McCain’s weight (Via AllahPundit)?

Yes, it was. In fact, Senator McCain refused to support his daughter after her “Fat Ass” retort.

Exit question: Is Meghan McCain being disingenuous or hypocritical with her comments on the Current video?

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Technorati Tags: Meghan McCain, Michael Steele, Rush Limbaugh

California is a financial wreck thanks to a spendaholic Democrat controlled Legislature and a post-partisan Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who loves to tax and spend.

But, never fear Obama and Biden are to the rescue.

Your next California automobile purchase will be at the Obama GM dealer or at Biden Chrysler providing you like the models that national industrial policy allows. Flap’s guess is that Honda and Toyota will continue to out-compete the failed American automobile manufacturers.

Exit question: Will the Obama Administration attempt to regulate the private automobile manufacturers who do NOT receive government bailouts to protect the companies that do?

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