Posted by
cehwiedel on Monday, July 10, 2006 9:08:46 AM
The tagline for
Senator Feinstein's campaign website: "An independent voice for California".
My first question: independent of whom?
Senator Feinstein is a member of the Democratic political party. She isn't independent of that.
According to the welcome message, the tagline dates from her original Senate campaign pledge to be "an independent voice for California."
Was she promising not to work with Democratic colleagues in the Senate?
Okay, I will drop my rhetorical pose.
The tagline is warm, fuzzy and meaningless. No American political candidate is going to stand up and forthrightly claim that he or she will be a lickspittle lackey of their own political party, and every politician is going to claim that he or she will bravely stand up against the nefarious desires of the opposing political party.
[You are invited to visit
www.cehwiedel.com, where I write on many other topics than the members of the California delegation to the United States Senate.]