The increasingly odious Dianne Feinstein

Glenn Greenwald on Dianne Feinstein:

The USA Today editorialized quite strongly today against the Flag Desecration Amendment, and then provided space for an editorial in favor of the Amendment. Who wrote the editorial favoring this Amendment? The increasingly odious Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who insults everyone's intelligence with this inane "reasoning":

Some opponents of the Flag Protection Amendment argue that we must choose between trampling on the flag and trampling on the First Amendment. I strongly disagree.

There is no idea or thought expressed by the burning of the American flag that cannot be expressed equally well in another manner. This Amendment would leave both the flag and free speech safe.

Obviously, the burning of the American flag does convey a message in a unique way or else there wouldn't be an effort to amend the Constitution in order ban it. We have spent the last 218 years with the Constitution prohibiting all attempts by Congress to restrict free speech, but Feinstein thinks we should change that so that we become a country in which people like Dianne Feinstein can dictate to us what is and is not an appropriate form of political expression. She thinks she should be able to criminalize certain types of political expression and then tell us not to worry because the views can "be expressed equally well in another manner."

Dianne Feinstein is on both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee and sleepwalks as the Bush administration wages war on the constitutional principles which define this country. And yet this is the issue which has moved her to write an editorial in a national newspaper.

With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?