Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Senator Dianne Feinstein was in San Francisco today, where she blasted the slow response from Coast Guard officials to last Wednesday's oil spill, which has penetrated more than 40 miles of shoreline, the San FranciscoChronicle reports. The spill has been a disaster for the region,particularly wildlife that area officials have worked hard to protect.Feinstein has given ample attention to the spill, and is in talk withHomeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

For Democrats salivating over the prospect of winning one of California's most conservative Congressional districts, ethically challenged Rep. John Doolittle's stubborn refusal to step aside is music to their ears. The Sacramento Bee today reports that Doolittleis shoring up support with right-wing activists and loudly proclaiminghis GOP challengers as "opportunists." This should be an interestingrace, especially in a district Democratic candidate Charlie Brown (whocame within 3 percent of winning last time) described as one in which"when quail season is over, people here hunt Democrats."

Governor Schwarzenegger, whose preference for jet travel has raised eyebrows among some environmentalists, continues to refuse to disclose the details of his travels, the Bee reports. Arnold has every right to use his jet (and we commendhim for paying for carbon off-sets), but if he's going to beholier-than-thou about  being green, he's got tell us what he'sactually doing.

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Photo courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle.