Firedoglake founder Jane Hamsher took to CNN Monday tonight to announce Just Say Now, our campaign for marijuana legalization with the awesome folks at Students for Sensible Drug Policy and other notable allies. It was quite the showing, as Jane absolutely destroyed No on Prop 19 consultant Tim Rosales, who called our campaign “tasteless.”

Yes, Saturday May 22nd is Harvey Milk’s eightieth birthday. His adopted hometown of San Francisco, and especially his beloved Castro nieghborhood, made big plans.

Three trials have been on my mind: the lawsuit over Prop 8 in San Francisco, the trial of Scott Roeder in Wichita, and the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in NYC where ever it might be held. The first two trials have been models of openness, revealing the twisted logic of small minded people for what it is. KSM’s trial has the potential for doing the same, if only people would quit cowering in fear.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein has joined the Fiscal-Scold-Seven to put her foot down on Social Security and Medicare: she won’t vote to raise the debt ceiling (required within a month or Uncle Sam defaults) without a law establishing a “bipartisan commission” that’s sure to ruin Baby Boomer benefits just as the Democratic coalition cracks over choice and the Stupak Amendment.

“Cash for Clunkers” (CARS) is an example of a government stimulus program so successful that it ran out of money in one week, causing the House to re-double its funding in hopes of making their car-dealer, car-buying, non-TARP-eligible constituency happy before they head home for a talking-to. But the big-shot Senate, where ideas beloved by the American people go to die, may very well find an across-the-aisle way to destroy the program — as a tryout for ruining the House’s healthcare reform.

Feinstein’s sense of personal entitlement with regard to her job as a US Senator seems to be without limit, and her willingness to make decisions based on what benefits her personally could doom meaningful health reform for all of us.

A co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act back in 2007, California Senator Dianne Feinstein is, sadly, now the lone holdout among those previous co-sponsors in the state’s Democratic delegation in Washington. Feinstein has issued a statement saying that she likely won’t support the Employee Free Choice Act in its current form.

The main cause of there being too many people for them to deal with was that there were too many people?

. . . no one could have possibly foreseen. . .

Obama has had a hard time finding a prospective CIA chief who isn’t tainted by either involvement in Bush’s torture regime or who backed Bush’s illicit wiretapping. He was compelled to reject California Congressmember Jane Harman because of her approval of the latter. However, the person he did approve, Leon Panetta, has roused the ire of Harman’s powerful friend Dianne Feinstein, who complains that we need an “intelligence professional” heading the CIA — even though Feinstein ignored the input of several intelligence professionals in her haste to rubber-stamp Bush’s planned invasion of Iraq.

Diane Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller don’t get it