California: Dianne Feinstein

California needs more energy, quickly.  The Left will not allow drilling for oil off the Santa Barbara coast.  They will not allow nuclear power.  Windmills "kill" to many birds--juts ask Ted Kennedy why he will not allow windmills in Hyannis Port.

Now Senator Dianne Feinstein, who demands the end of oil, will not allow the creation of vast solar panel farms in the Mojave Desert, where only Google can see them.

While she and her husband are making hundreds of millions from enterprises in China, the worst pollutant on earth, Feinstein wants to bankrupt California by not allowing the creation of solar farms in our desert.

The final numbers on the stimulus package are trickling out.  Some of the baseline investments are here:

* Investments in Infrastructure and Science - $120 billion
* Investments in Health - $14.2 billion
* Investments in Education and Training - $105.9 billion
* Investments in Energy, including over $30 billion in infrastructure - $37.5 billion
* Helping Americans Hit Hardest by the Economic Crisis - $24.3 billion
* Law Enforcement, Oversight, Other Programs - $7.8 billion

It's unquestionable that the conference report is worse than the House bill but better than the Senate.  It costs less than the Senate bill while providing more stimulus.  Some bad spending like

Democrat Dianne Feinstein enjoys a comfortable lead over all comers in a hypothetical 2010 gubernatorial match-up, according to a new Capitol Weekly/Probolsky Research poll. On the Republican side, a wide-open race shows former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former Congressman Tom Campbell ahead in a very early measure of support.

Campbell and Whitman were out front with 15 and 14 percent of the Republican vote respectively, while Republican Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner trailed with just 4 percent of the vote. Sixty-three percent of those surveyed remain undecided.

Pollster Adam Probolsky cautioned against reading too much into the results, particularly on the Republican side. Probolsky noted that the survey used identifiers for the candidates that could not be used on an actual ballot.

Reporting from Sacramento -- On the cusp of a new era in stem cell science, Democratic heavyweights are pushing to install the outgoing California Democratic Party chief in a leadership post at the state's $3-billion research program.

Art Torres, who served two decades as a state lawmaker before assuming the party chairmanship a dozen years ago, is being backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer of California and Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, among others.

Torres' opponent for vice chairman on the governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine is Republican biotech executive Duane Roth, supported by Gov.