Quisling Democrats Just Don't Get It--THEY WILL NOT FIGHT [Poll]
Raw Story just put up a story on how Democratic senators and their staffs are really upset at what they consider to be a disasterous and self-defeating political stunt by Russ Feingold's in proposing...
View ArticleIt's the Constitution, Stupid
Russ Feingold's censure resolution was the logical outcome of his remarkable exercise of March 1, when, after the passage of the Patriot Act, he read the text of the U.S. Constitution out loud on the...
View ArticleDefeatist? Who's Defeatist? [w/POLL]
Yesterday, Armando posted a thought-provoking diary that got a lot of attention and was on the Rec List for most of the day, Defeatist. It was about how he felt that, by criticizing Democratic senators...
View ArticleBattling The Red-State of Mind
Crossposted on Truth 2 PowerYesterday I called up the Senate to support the Censure motion. I was actually happy to find that I couldn't get through to Senator Feinstein, Kerry or Feingold as their...
View Article1776 and 2006 (Subtitled: Adams and Feingold)
I saw 1776 this weekend--the 1972 musical comedy that is, about what took place at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia during the weeks preceeding the drafting, approval and signing of the...
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Al Gore: Let a Special Counsel investigate Warrantless Wiretaps
Remember this gentleman? Why not let someone like him get to the bottom of the NSA wiretapping controversy?
View ArticleNewsweek Censure Poll: Watch the Wording
So last week's Newsweek poll supposedly found that more Americans oppose censure than support it. But compare the wording of the censure question in the Newsweek poll to the wording of the censure...
View ArticleThe Circular Firing Squad Over Censure Continues
Looks like our wonderful Democratic senators--current and would-be--continue to not only NOT support Russ Feingold's call for censure, but to criticize him and it openly with a series of lame and...
View ArticleTime to Talk War Crimes
From Bob Parry at consortiumnews.com:Time to Talk War Crimes The Nuremberg trials after World War II established universal rules against aggressive wars, principles that George W. Bush willfully...
View ArticleWhy the NSA wiretapping is a waste of time and effort
In his recent newsletter, cyber security expert Bruce Schneier discusses why programs such as the NSA wiretapping programs are ineffective
View ArticleNPR Plays Down Support for Censure
[Also see folkbum's "Mara Liasson's 'impeachment backlash': I call BS"] Friday night on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", host Michele Norris introduced a story and interacted with...
View ArticleFeingold Shames Specter Into Holding Hearings
Can we please give Mr. Feingold some mojo!Letting Feingold Be Feingold He was awesome answering questions Chris Wallace threw his way on Faux News. He was unflappable and unwavering in his conviction...
View ArticleCitizen punctures Bush bubble, says Bush should be "ashamed" of his...
Who let this guy in?President Bush, told by a critic he should be ashamed of his policies, defended the government's secret eavesdropping program Thursday and said he would not apologize for listening...
View ArticleAmendment 4 Blues
Should a Director of the Central Intelligence Agency be required to be familiar with the Bill of Rights?
View ArticleChickenshit Democratic leadership strikes again
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi pledged "just investigations, no impeachment," and doesn't even list the the NSA warrantless wiretapping as a specific targets of investigation, in talking to NBC...
View ArticleHayden Promises No More Leaks
Gen. Hayden, who engineered the illegal, warrantless, domestic spying program is being transferred to the CIA. The men who he cites as references are both lauded by Bush for their incompetencies or...
View ArticleSupport Qwest!
I'll be honest, I don't really know anything about this company. But Qwest took a principled stand against our gov't, despite enormous pressure. They should be congratulated, not just with thanks,...
View ArticleWhy the Law must be enforced, even on you, Mr. President
In a perfect world, the government wiretapping would not worry me. Governments are the only organizations that, in theory, work purely for the benefit of those they serve. They don't try to make money,...
View ArticleSHUT DOWN Congress NOW
That's it. This the last straw. Hearings on the signing statements, the wiretapping, this new story about the data mining or whatever the fuck it is of phone records, must be held immediately!
View ArticleArlen Specter Makes Loud Noises Once Again [w/Poll]
Once again, in the wake of recent revelations in USA Today that the NSA has been illegally compiling a database of Americans' phone records, we're witnessing our healthy democracy in action, with...
View ArticleCAFFERTY on CNN: "Why don't you go find Osama bin Laden?"
I don't see people writing about what Jack Cafferty said on CNN today. I know he's a lifelong Republican but what he said was important. If this has been blogged before, please send me the link and...
View ArticleSubversive fun with the NSA
Oh sure, the NSA wiretapping has you spooked. Who knows what they could do with the information; could all of those take out orders from Omar's Falafel House be somehow misinterpreted as aiding Enemies...
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(UPDATE) Call to ACTION: Bush Wants In Your Bedroom
Cross-posted at Deny My Freedom: I think that the analysis on the NSA wiretapping and data mining revelations over the last few days here at DailyKos have been amazing. The lessons we have learned...
View ArticleWhat is NSA recording?
Inspired by this diary I did the math. (in a comment there) It isn't just the phone numbers they are recording. Suppose you were to record the phone calls to and from all people in the USA. Each record...
View ArticleCHENEY PIÑATA
Incredulous is a word that is insufficient to express the doubts I have about this article citing a Washington Post/ABC poll that said,
View ArticleWas The NSA Listening When I Called My Senator?
I have this sick feeling in my stomach. I just called both of my Senator's offices to express my discontent with the NSA's Domestic Wiretapping program. As I dialed the numbers on my cell phone I...
View ArticleNSA's San Francisco Surveillance Detailed
Keep in mind this is just San Francisco. Similar surveillance equipment has been installed in New York, LA, San Diego, Seattle and other major metropolitan areas. I know some will say "this is the...
View ArticleProtecting yourself from NSA wire tapping
I've watched with great dismay the stream of stories about the National Security Agency tracking citizen's calling patterns and quite probably listening in without warrants as well. While this is...
View ArticleIs Senator Specter taking his job seriously, or is this just election year...
Yesterday, much to my surprise, Sen. Arlen Specter, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a rather tersely worded letter to Vice President Dick Cheney, admonishing the veep for lobbying...
View ArticleThe Associated Press Again Misses the Point of Democracy
This is just another example of a pervasive pattern. A pattern that requires far more attention than it is getting: Horrendous media coverage of the issues. And the ensuing tendency by the far right...
View Article1776
Several months ago, during the height of the controversy over the Feingold censure resolution, I posted a diary comparing the conditions that led to our declaration of independance from a tyrannical...
View ArticleYou Have A Pre-January 20th Mindset
This is the problem with you libs. You don't understand that the world changed on January 20, 2001. That was a terrible, terrible day in our nation's history. And after the tragic events of that...
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Well Sen. Specter, since you asked...
In today's Washington Post, Senator Arlen Spector has an op-ed piece where he attempts to lay out his defense for both President Bush and himself. Entitled Surveillance We Can Live With, the is a blow...
View ArticleUSA Today : Only 27 percent gave Bush a favorable rating
Some 59 percent said they disapproved of his work. This number was buried inside the report under the heading Americans blame Hezbollah for Lebanon conflict: poll. These so called MSM have lost any...
View ArticleLesson in democracy for Specter, from 1946
Despotism: A lesson for Specter from 1946 I wanted to share a little video lesson on despotism and rubber stamp legislatures with Arlen Specter (although I'm sure a lot of others like Bush, Cheney,...
View ArticleNYT's Damned If You Do, Don't, Or Just Damned
The incomparable Bob Somerby should always be consulted when thinking about a meta-story about media bias, and the Daily Howler seldom disappoints.For forty-plus years, they've yelled "liberal...
View ArticleWhy should I encrypt my email?
I've been meaning a write a short explanation of why email should be encrypted. Today I had a little time and put the following up on my personal webpage. I thought it might do well to share it here...
View ArticleWhat Are They Hiding, Exactly?
American politics is a tiresome game: one side cheats, lies, and steals, while the other plays a pee-wee league game of special rules and gentlemanly handshakes.Case in point: NSA Warrantless...
View ArticleProof Bush is wiretapping political opponents?!!!
Proof? I don't need no stinkin' proof. I just want some high-profile Democrat to lay that charge out there and let the Bush Administration try to deny it. Because once that charge is out there, and...
View ArticleCheney: Wiretap Ruling Will Be Reversed
Does Torquemada Cheney know something we don't? The Senior Prince of Darkness weighs in again on that pesky court ruling upholding constitutional law:Vice President Dick Cheney predicted Monday that a...
View ArticleBlond Dead Girl Trumps NSA Warrantless Wire Tapping
Looks like the Bush administration knows no bounds. Here's the Chronology: August 15th - Boulder DA issues arrest warrant for John Karr for the murder of Jon Bonet Ramsey. August 16th - Boulder DA...
View ArticleVerizon Exec had ties to CIA and the NSA Talking Points memo
Just read this over at Raw Story, thought that it was very interesting...One of the highest-level executives at Verizon Communications--one of three major telecommunications firms originally alleged to...
View ArticleHow Close America came to the "Dark Side" and Poll
I am just a "normal" American, I grew up in the late 50's early 60's and watched some of the best of times and the worst of times, "Leave It to Beaver" America, the assasinations of J.F.K, his brother...
View ArticleCongressional rush
As the November mid-term elections rapidly approach, Congress finds itself rushing against the clock. Out of concern for the campaigning requirements of its members, it has set October 6 as its target...
View ArticleWiretapping and FISA, Part CLIX
The Bu$h malAdministration announced today that it will retreat from its dictatorial and totalitarian position that they can wiretap any American, under any circumstances, at any time they feel like...
View ArticleYou liberal whiners just don't get it
I'm sorry to have to do this, but I'm afraid I just gotta. You see, I read and hear so many complaints about this Administration's "abuse of power" as if you rant and rave with such conviction that...
View ArticlePowerPoint Politics: Gonzales perjury explained. Updated!
In work settings these days, Powerpoint is the required means of communication, even though reducing arguments to bullet points in many cases is obviously ridiculous. But in the case of the Bush...
View ArticleElliot Spitzer: Victim of Illicit Targeting???
Elliot Spitzer is clearly guilty of paying for sex, and of all manner of betrayals and hypocrisy in this matter. It is the intent of this diary to begin to explore the possibility that the events...
View ArticleWhich member of Congress did the NSA wiretap? Inquiring minds would like to...
Magnifico has a diary currently on the Recommended List highlighting the explosive New York Times story about the NSA wiretapping Americans in a systemic way outside the law. However, I want to...
View ArticleWar criminals hindered by post-Watergate checks on government
(Cross-posted at my blog)I just find this interesting I guess While at the Pentagon, Goldsmith wrote a memo for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warning that prosecutors from the Criminal Court might...
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