FEINSTEIN, A TRAITOR, WAR PROFITEER, AGENT FOR CHINA, OR ALL THE ABOVE?

Four reasons BUSH wanted FEINSTEIN as his insurance against IMPEACHMENT: 1. She will do anything to make a buck, sell-out her state or country. She’s done it from the very beginning of her squalid political life during which she’s accumulated 40 million in personal residences, the last being her WAR PROFITEERING 17 million mansion in San Francisco. 2. She already deserves to be impeached and imprisoned and goes to great length to avoid the words IMPEACH AND IMPRISON. She worked hard to keep GRAY DAVIS in office. Her husband had paid DAVIS a $75,000 bribe to get himself on the Board of Regents so he could cut himself and DI more dirty deals! 3. She’s as ethically squalid as BUSH-CHENEY-HALIBURTON put together. 4. She’s bought off with “campaign bribes” from her husband, RICHARD C BLUM, Boxer and Pelosi. as well as other Dems so they keep their big mouths SHUT about Feinstein’s crimes. FEINSTEIN SERVES ONE PURPOSE... THE DECIDING VOTE TO PROTECT HER MAN, BUSH, FROM IMPEACHMENT. HENCE HER INVITATION TO FEED AT THE CARLYLE GROUP, GOOGLE RICHARD BLUM, URS, FEINSTEIN Feinstein may never have done anything for CALIFORNIA in her long, squalid career of self-serving politics, and servicing big bankers, PGE, and illegals, but she sure has made a pile of dirty loot for herself. CONFLICT of INTEREST is not something Feinstein seems to be worried about. Her colleague Congressman Randy Cunningham from San Diego went to prison for accepting bribes. FEINSTEIN channels all her ill got monies through her white collar criminal husband RICHARD C. BLUM. THE CRIME DUAL HAVE THE DUBIOUS HONOR OF BEING THE BIGGEST WAR PROFITEER IN UNITED STATES HISTORY. Then there’ s the piles Feinstein has made for being RED CHINA’S agent. The phoney computer school that bilked tax payers out of millions... right into Feinstein’s pockets. Then the place on the U.C. Board of Regents Blum bought for a $75 “contribution” to Gray Davis. Now Feinstein is kicking old people in the heads to make a filthy dollar. She’s accumulated more than 40 million in mansion while in office, but it’s never enough for her. Feinstein has her corrupt low-life staffers working full time trying to convince people they’re stupid. That it isn’t Feinstein that opens the doors for wiesel to slip through the back door and cut some big money deals........ The brazenness of FEINSTEIN’S CORRUPTION, her preoccupation with money making deals, at the cost of serving her State, and the magnitude of her crimes is a document on how corrupt our government truly is. Feinstein is so corrupt, Bush invited Blum into the Carlyle Group to feed there. Bush knew that Feinstein, a closet Republican would NEVER VOTE IMPEACHMENT. How could she and stay out of prison herself? Husband's investments entangle Feinstein LATEST FLAP OVER MEDICARE PAYMENT DENIALS By David WhitneyMcClatchy NewspapersSan Jose Mercury News Article Launched:05/19/2007 01:36:54 AM PDT WASHINGTON - California lawmakers are questioning whether an auditing company in which San Francisco investor Richard Blum, the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has a major financial stake is rejecting Medicare claims at California rehabilitation hospitals in order to reap millions of dollars in profits at the expense of patient care. The company, PRG-Schultz International, has a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the overseer of the Medicare program, to check payments in California for mistakes. Its only pay is a bounty of up to 30 percent on the "overcharges" it identifies. The California Hospital Association first raised concerns in November that PRG-Schultz was targeting rehabilitation hospitals that cared for Medicare patients after knee or hip replacement surgery. The hospital association said PRG-Schultz has reviewed thousands of cases dating as far back as 2002 and has rejected nearly all as medically unnecessary. Melinda Staveley, president of the 38-bed Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara, said more than 100 such cases from her non-profit institution had been rejected. The facility could face having to repay more than $2 million. Elderly patients As difficult as that would be financially for a small hospital with a $12 million annual budget, she said the bigger concern is future patient care. The frail and elderly surgery patients with compound medical problems no longer will have access to rehabilitation hospitals and will have to rely on home or outpatient services. "This is devastating," Staveley said of the audits. Her husband's business interests in PRG-Schultz have proved awkward for Feinstein, the state's Democratic senior senator, as the hospital association turns to Congress for relief. This is not the first time Blum's business interests have collided with his wife's job. Blum Capital Partners is a major investor in Northwest Airlines, which in 1995 won the first contract by an American air carrier to fly to Beijing. Feinstein had been friends with a former Chinese political leader since she was mayor of San Francisco. More recently, concerns have been raised in Republican circles about some of Blum's investments benefiting from defense contracts at a time when the senator was serving on the Senate military construction appropriations committee. Feinstein's press aide, Scott Gerber, said the senator played no role in the legislation creating the auditing program and did not intervene with program administrators to help PRG-Schultz get the three-year contract in 2005. Serious concerns On Thursday, after questions from McClatchy Newspapers, Feinstein sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that called the hospital association's concerns "potentially serious." She asked program administrators to investigate, saying the concerns are spreading beyond its determinations on rehabilitation hospitals to other aspects of Medicare-financed hospitalizations for the elderly, including short-stay hospital admissions. Feinstein made no mention of her husband's interest in PRG-Schultz, which she lists in her annual financial disclosure reports. According to PRG-Schultz, Blum's investment companies own 10.5 percent of its outstanding common stock, 53 percent of its outstanding preferred stock and 28 percent of its notes and securities. California House members soon will follow with a joint letter of their own asking for an investigation. Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, is taking the lead among Democrats. Her press aide, Emily Kryder, said 15 members - more than a quarter of the state's congressional delegation - have agreed to sign the letter so far. "The review and collection practices of PRG-Schultz threaten access to rehabilitation services in California," the letter said. "We urge you to examine the actions taken by PRG-Schultz International, Inc." The auditing program was set up as a demonstration project initially focusing on the three highest-cost Medicare states - California, New York and Florida. Separate contractors are used for each state. PRG-Schultz is the only for-profit contractor among them, and Medicare administrators believe it has been the most controversial because it alone has been zeroing in on rehabilitation hospitals. Highly lucrative On the brink of financial collapse when it won the contract two years ago, PRG-Schultz has found the job to be enormously lucrative. Government figures indicate that it had rejected $105 million in California Medicare overcharges as of Sept. 30, the end of the 2006 fiscal year. Medicare managers said they could not release figures for how much PRG-Schultz was claiming as commissions for finding the alleged overcharges, saying the information was proprietary. But based on bounties of 28 percent that were used in establishing the program, PRG-Schultz's entitlement could be as much as $29 million. The California Hospital Association said in a letter to Medicare administrators in November that PRG-Schultz should be suspended for improperly applying Medicare rules and using unqualified personnel. PRG-Schultz declined to comment. But officials of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services steadfastly defended PRG-Schultz, saying it's applying rules on medically necessary admissions that probably have been ignored in California for years. PRG-Schultz "coming to town is probably the first real look at these hospitals in many, many years," said Melanie Combs, senior technical adviser for the federal program. "These rules have been on the books since 1985," Combs said. "Maybe it's possible some have been overlooking them. Maybe there have been consultants out there helping hospitals to, quote, maximize reimbursements. And maybe perhaps some of that has entailed looking the other way." A call to Blum Capital Partners - of which Blum is board chairman - asking for comment was not returned. PRG-Schultz reported a first-quarter profit this year of $1.5 million, compared to a $10 million loss for the same period in 2006.

Feinstein under fire over defense ties

HUSBAND HAS PROFITED FROM PENTAGON CONTRACTS

By Michael DoyleMcClatchy Washington BureauSan Jose Mercury News

Article Launched:04/15/2007 01:31:07 AM PDT

WASHINGTON - Bloggers and activists are writing a new chapter in the marriage between Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and husband Richard Blum. Feinstein has real power. Blum has serious money. For 27 married years, the politician and the investor have excelled professionally while facing periodic queries about Blum's far-flung investments. The latest round now comes powered by the Internet, fanned by activists on both right and left. The partisans find common cause in questioning Feinstein's role in Pentagon spending while Blum was investing in defense firms. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ YOU WONDERED WHY WAR WHORE FEINSTEIN VOTES ENDLESSLY FOR MORE, MORE, MORE WAR…..????? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Critics have accused Feinstein of having a conflict of interest by serving through last year as chair and ranking member of the Senate's military construction appropriations subcommittee at the same time that her husband had financial interests in two firms that rely on defense contracts. The Senate panel approves about $16 billion annually for military construction projects. Until 2005, Blum had major holdings in two firms, URS Corp. and Perini Corp., that rely on defense contracts. Perini received $200 million in federal contracts from 2000 to 2006, primarily with the Army, according to records compiled by the private watchdog group OMB Watch. URS received $1.8 billion worth of contracts - primarily Air Force, Army and Navy - during the same period Feinstein's spokesman Scott Gerber declared that the senator has always "acted appropriately" and within the Senate's ethics guidelines. He sternly denounced suggestions of conflict, first raised in articles published in the Bay Area's free Metro weekly newspaper, and noted that the Pentagon, not Congress, decides who is awarded contracts. "The story is filled with inaccuracies, errors and distortions," Gerber said, "and it has been pushed by the right-wing bloggers." Actually, the story has migrated from left to right and back again. Last Sunday, it was the left's turn, as female anti-war protesters gathered outside Feinstein's San Francisco home. Code Pink leader Medea Benjamin declared that Feinstein and Blum "have profited from this war" in Iraq. On the right, the conservative group Judicial Watch announced its own probe. The Washington-based group, which filed myriad lawsuits against the Clinton administration, is now preparing Freedom of Information Act requests into the URS and Perini contracts. "We've commenced an investigation," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. The Metro story, cited in hundreds of blogs since, was reported by a freelance writer who received a grant from the liberal Nation magazine's investigative fund. The author, Peter Byrne, said he stands by everything he wrote. "They haven't come up with a single fact that is in error," Byrne said of Feinstein's office. After the Nation rejected his story last fall, Byrne said he "flogged it around to a lot of liberal publications" before getting it published in Metro. The original story goes into considerable detail; Feinstein's office has in turn prepared a detailed rebuttal. "I find it hard to believe that the allegations are completely true since this is too obvious a conflict for a senior senator to make," University of California-Berkeley political scientist Bruce Cain said. Blum and Feinstein have weathered past episodes that included questions about Blum's investments in China. Blum has always maintained that he has conducted his businesses properly. Last year, in meeting the Senate's financial disclosure requirements, Feinstein needed 148 pages to detail the family's assets. Feinstein is one of the Senate's wealthiest members, with assets in 2005 valued from $45 million to $105 million. She sought "the advice of the Senate Ethics Committee on her own initiative about whether conflicts existed - and (is) following that guidance," Gerber said. "That guidance indicated that, given the facts, Senator Feinstein could fully consider, debate, and vote on appropriations bills, whether in the subcommittee, committee or full Senate." The Metro stories also contended that Feinstein had "resigned" from the military construction subcommittee, suggesting she departed under pressure. Senate Appropriations Committee spokesman Tom Gavin replied Thursday that seven other lawmakers had also flipped appropriations subcommittees this year. "This is a process that happens at the start of every Congress," Gavin said. Feinstein left the military panel to chair the subcommittee that handles the Forest Service, the National Park Service and other agencies crucial to California. "Frankly, for California, it's a better opportunity for the senator, and she took it," Gerber said, adding that the claim that Feinstein had resigned from the military subcommittee was "just not true."

Husband's investments entangle Feinstein

LATEST FLAP OVER MEDICARE PAYMENT DENIALS

By David WhitneyMcClatchy NewspapersSan Jose Mercury News

Article Launched:05/19/2007 01:36:54 AM PDT

WASHINGTON - California lawmakers are questioning whether an auditing company in which San Francisco investor Richard Blum, the husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has a major financial stake is rejecting Medicare claims at California rehabilitation hospitals in order to reap millions of dollars in profits at the expense of patient care. The company, PRG-Schultz International, has a contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the overseer of the Medicare program, to check payments in California for mistakes. Its only pay is a bounty of up to 30 percent on the "overcharges" it identifies. The California Hospital Association first raised concerns in November that PRG-Schultz was targeting rehabilitation hospitals that cared for Medicare patients after knee or hip replacement surgery. The hospital association said PRG-Schultz has reviewed thousands of cases dating as far back as 2002 and has rejected nearly all as medically unnecessary. Melinda Staveley, president of the 38-bed Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara, said more than 100 such cases from her non-profit institution had been rejected. The facility could face having to repay more than $2 million. Elderly patients As difficult as that would be financially for a small hospital with a $12 million annual budget, she said the bigger concern is future patient care. The frail and elderly surgery patients with compound medical problems no longer will have access to rehabilitation hospitals and will have to rely on home or outpatient services. "This is devastating," Staveley said of the audits. Her husband's business interests in PRG-Schultz have proved awkward for Feinstein, the state's Democratic senior senator, as the hospital association turns to Congress for relief. This is not the first time Blum's business interests have collided with his wife's job. Blum Capital Partners is a major investor in Northwest Airlines, which in 1995 won the first contract by an American air carrier to fly to Beijing. Feinstein had been friends with a former Chinese political leader since she was mayor of San Francisco. More recently, concerns have been raised in Republican circles about some of Blum's investments benefiting from defense contracts at a time when the senator was serving on the Senate military construction appropriations committee. Feinstein's press aide, Scott Gerber, said the senator played no role in the legislation creating the auditing program and did not intervene with program administrators to help PRG-Schultz get the three-year contract in 2005. Serious concerns “FEINSTEIN SENT A LETTER EXPRESSING HER CONCERNS....” THIS IS TYPICAL WHORE FEINSTEIN. SHE LIES THROUGH BOTH SIDES OF HER MOUTH AND STILL COUNTS HER DIRTY MONEY. THE OLD WHORE HAS BEEN SENDING OUT THE SAME OLD FORM LETTER FOR A DECADES EXPRESSING HER “CONCERN” OVER THE INVASION BY MEXICO. ALL THE WHILE SHE’S IN THE BACK ROOM WORKING OUT NEW BIT BY BIT AMNESTY WITH HER LA RAZA WHORES, PELOSI. BOXER, WAXMAN, ESHOO, LOFGREN, HARMAN, FARR, SANCHEZ, ET AL. THE OLD WHORE HAS PUBLICALLY MADE COMMENTS ABOUT EVIL WAR PROFITEERS AND THEN WENT TO TOWN SERVICING BUSH WITH HER !NO! IMPEACHMENT, FOR WAR PROFITS. ENOUGH TO BUY HERSELF ANOTHER MANSION, THE 17 MILLION SAN FRANCISCO PLACE.IT’S TIME FEINSTEIN WENT TO PRISON! On Thursday, after questions from McClatchy Newspapers, Feinstein sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that called the hospital association's concerns "potentially serious." She asked program administrators to investigate, saying the concerns are spreading beyond its determinations on rehabilitation hospitals to other aspects of Medicare-financed hospitalizations for the elderly, including short-stay hospital admissions. Feinstein made no mention of her husband's interest in PRG-Schultz, which she lists in her annual financial disclosure reports. According to PRG-Schultz, Blum's investment companies own 10.5 percent of its outstanding common stock, 53 percent of its outstanding preferred stock and 28 percent of its notes and securities. California House members soon will follow with a joint letter of their own asking for an investigation. Rep. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, is taking the lead among Democrats. Her press aide, Emily Kryder, said 15 members - more than a quarter of the state's congressional delegation - have agreed to sign the letter so far. "The review and collection practices of PRG-Schultz threaten access to rehabilitation services in California," the letter said. "We urge you to examine the actions taken by PRG-Schultz International, Inc." The auditing program was set up as a demonstration project initially focusing on the three highest-cost Medicare states - California, New York and Florida. Separate contractors are used for each state. PRG-Schultz is the only for-profit contractor among them, and Medicare administrators believe it has been the most controversial because it alone has been zeroing in on rehabilitation hospitals. Highly lucrative On the brink of financial collapse when it won the contract two years ago, PRG-Schultz has found the job to be enormously lucrative. Government figures indicate that it had rejected $105 million in California Medicare overcharges as of Sept. 30, the end of the 2006 fiscal year. Medicare managers said they could not release figures for how much PRG-Schultz was claiming as commissions for finding the alleged overcharges, saying the information was proprietary. But based on bounties of 28 percent that were used in establishing the program, PRG-Schultz's entitlement could be as much as $29 million. The California Hospital Association said in a letter to Medicare administrators in November that PRG-Schultz should be suspended for improperly applying Medicare rules and using unqualified personnel. PRG-Schultz declined to comment. But officials of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services steadfastly defended PRG-Schultz, saying it's applying rules on medically necessary admissions that probably have been ignored in California for years. PRG-Schultz "coming to town is probably the first real look at these hospitals in many, many years," said Melanie Combs, senior technical adviser for the federal program. "These rules have been on the books since 1985," Combs said. "Maybe it's possible some have been overlooking them. Maybe there have been consultants out there helping hospitals to, quote, maximize reimbursements. And maybe perhaps some of that has entailed looking the other way." A call to Blum Capital Partners - of which Blum is board chairman - asking for comment was not returned. PRG-Schultz reported a first-quarter profit this year of $1.5 million, compared to a $10 million loss for the same period in 2006.

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FEINSTEIN PROTECTS HER PAYING JOHN FROM IMPEACHMENT:

Dear Sheep of America: Thank you for your letter concerning impeachment proceedings against President Bush. I appreciate the time you took to write and welcome the opportunity to respond. In our recent elections, the American people expressed clear disapproval with the path this country was on. They are tired of partisan politics and of an Administration that pays little heed to the wishes of the American people. They want-and deserve-a Congress that holds the Administration accountable and fulfills its Constitutional responsibility to check and balance the Executive. I share this sentiment and am determined to work hard and across party lines in the United States Senate to promote issues that are of real concern to most Americans, including the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan, homeland security, global warming, and lobbying and election reform. At this time, however, I believe that impeachment proceedings against President Bush will only divide the country even further, frustrating our hopes for a meaningful change in direction, while having little chance of success. I have been deeply disappointed by many of this Administration's actions and have been outspoken in those instances. Nevertheless, given the challenges our country faces I believe that we need to focus on constructive and cooperative steps that would lead us in the right direction. Again, thank you for your continued correspondence. If you have any further questions or comments, please contact my office in Washington, D.C. at (202) 224-3841. Best regards. Sincerely yours, Dianne Feinstein THE WHITE HOUSE WHOREUnited States SenatorFurther information about my position on issues of concern to California and the Nation are available at my website http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/.

Illegal-immigration blues WASHINGTON TIMES EDITORIAL As neighboring states like Virginia make it increasingly difficult for illegal aliens to get driver’s licenses, Maryland is increasingly becoming an island — a state that stands alone as a weak point when it comes to maintaining the integrity of driver’s licenses. Maryland is one of just five states that do not require that driver’s license applicants be able to show they are in the United States legally, according to the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA). Bills introduced by Sen. David Brinkley, Frederick Republican (S.B. 621) and Delegate Ron George, Anne Arundel Republican, requiring that applicants for driver’s licenses provide a birth certificate or other evidence showing that they are legally present in the United States, have stalled. With just 15 days left before the conclusion of the regular 2008 session of the General Assembly, chances for both bills are fading fast. In the 141-member House, Mr. George has 58 sponsors — all 37 Republicans plus 21 Democrats — for his bill (H.B. 288) to require that effective Oct. 1, license applicants must be able to demonstrate by that they are legally present in Maryland. The measure is being bottled up in the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Delegate Joseph Vallario, Prince George’s Democrat, who is strongly opposed. And Mr. Vallario would be unable to do this without the active support of his legislative boss: House Speaker Michael Busch, Anne Arundel Democrat. Mr. O’Malley is in a very difficult political position. In January, the governor and Transportation Secretary John Porcari had put forward a plan to replace the current license system with a two-tier plan similar to the ill-fated one proposed last year by Gov. Eliot Spitzer, in which persons legally in the United States could get a license they could use to board airplanes or enter federal buildings. But Mr. Spitzer’s plan had collapsed several months earlier, and Mr. O’Malley’s popularity ratings had plummeted to the point that his popularity rating was lower than that of President Bush. According to a Fox 5/The Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports poll released in early January, Marylanders gave the governor a 33 percent job-approval rating, slightly below Mr. Bush’s rating. The poll also showed that 66 percent of respondents favored giving police the right to check the immigration status of drivers when they are pulled over for a traffic violation, while 76 percent said illegals should be barred from obtaining driver’s licenses. But at the same time, however, the governor was coming under pressure from CASA of Maryland — the state’s number one lobbying group for illegal aliens — not to yield at all. For now, the O’Malley administration’s legislative priority is killing off the Brinkley and George Bills. So, the MVA has quietly released position papers which take no official position on either bill, raising questions about the costs and "confusion" resulting from the new regulations (welcome to government 101). Bureaucratic niceties aside, the bottom line is this: if H.B. 288 and S.B. 621 die this year, the governor believes that in 2009, with a Democrat in the White House, tougher standards for obtaining driver’s licenses will whither on the vine.

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