Dianne Feinstein: You May Not Agree—But I Say She’s Senile!
By Joe Guzzardi

Dianne Feinstein is a power-mad, crazy old coot afflicted with a God complex that makes her continued presence in the U.S. Senate a threat—not only to immigration reform patriots but also to all Americans.

If that sounds exaggerated, spend five minutes reading my column and I’ll prove it to you.

Feinstein was infamously back in the California news last week when she intervened to prevent 17-year-old Fresno high school valedictorian Arthur Mkoyan’s deportation. The student and his family—whose tourist visas expired thirteen years ago—had been ordered deported before Feinstein interceded by introducing a private Senate bill to delay the process.

Feinstein explained herself in her usual, idiotic way—Mkoyan is a fine young man from an excellent family, just the kind we need more of in the U.S., to send him back to Armenia where he knows no one would be cruel, blah, blah, blah…[Senator Tries to Keep Valedictorian from Deportation, By Chuck Afflerbach, CNN, June 10, 2008]

Two big problems:

Since they must pass both Houses of Congress and be signed by the president, private bills have almost no chance of being enacted. Of the 235 introduced during the last three years, only four passed.

Feinstein’s action then is a meaningless gesture— an insulting slap in the face to the normal, legally-established ICE procedures to deport immigration law violators. Mkoyan’s case has been in litigation for more than ten years. Every decision has come down against Mkoyan, including one by the usually sympathetic-to-illegals Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Private immigration bills are one of Feinstein’s favorite tricks.

In 2006, Feinstein introduced three such bills on behalf of fourteen people: the families Arreola, Placencia and Yamada.

Here are a few of the phrases Feinstein used to plead their cases: [b]“bright and engaging,â€