Bush has of course threatened to veto it, and the vote total is below the amount needed to override a veto..but the House did send BushCo a hearty ‘kiss off’ before they left town for a two-week hiatus. The Rethug members of Congress, as usual, screamed the Democrats were undermining national security.
The Democrats, as usual, [...]

A few turncoat Democrats sided with the Republicans today to force the Surveillance Bill onto the Senate floor.
Isn’t that special? I didn’t think so either.  From TPMmuckraker:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) moved for a vote on cloture — that would force an end to debate and trigger a simple majority vote on the underlying [...]

That’s it. We’re done kids. The greatest experiment in democracy can’t survive long term. Our addiction to drama, turmoil, and petty bickering will kill it. Our passion for ridiculous drama is so ingrained, we invent them and call it news. Then, we quote this to each other like it’s from God’s mouth to our ears. [...]

Money of course..lots and lots of it. From Glen Greenwald’s column at Salon:
Then again, AT&T is the second largest contributor overall to officials in Congress, having poured into the Beltway a total of $38 million in campaign contributions for the election cycles for which these records are available. Verizon is in [...]

After watching the confirmation hearing for Michael Mukasey the last couple of days, I have come to the conclusion that he is a Bushie of the highest order…just more intelligent than the others in that select group. Watch the exchange between Mukasey and Russ Feingold below regarding Bush and his ability to disobey laws he [...]

I have lost faith in this country’s leaders.
I’m a registered Libertarian, but, because I wanted to see major changes, last November, I dipped my pen on the Democratic side of my ballot (I voted absentee).
I hoped against all reason I have come to understand (that when shown the full light of day, Democrats are no [...]

The NYT has a good Editorial read up this morning. It addresses the Bush administration’s propensity to find something, anything…to drum up their fear factoring in order to gain more power to spy on Americans. The title is: Spies,Lies and FISA. From the second paragraph of the editorial:
There is no truth to any of those [...]

From Leahy’s government website, an excerpt of his remarks:
Last year, Congress committed an historic mistake by suspending the Great Writ of habeas corpus — not just for those confined at Guantanamo Bay but for millions of legal residents in the United States. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing in May on this bill illustrated the [...]

Almost 20,000 people ended up, for whatever reason, in the govt’s terrorist database. That..is a lot of people wouldn’t you say?
Get this…the govt wants to ‘open up’ the list to private entities. You know, we contract so fucking much of our needs out these days, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the fuckwits wish to make [...]

 
…fuck-ups with power.

Blink.
How the fuck is a bitch supposed to trust the same government that has fucked up just about everything to do anything right?
My nerves are fried…the simplest of news item now inspires terror as a bitch contemplates the minions in charge actually trying to be in charge!
Example - the Pentagon will power down [...]

Once upon a time, there was a Place called the Department of Justice. It was a noble institution, one we could always be sure would do the right thing and that politicization of the Department would never occur to taint their decisions or prosecutions….
Those days of old are gone sportfans..seriously..they have been for over six [...]

 Ill: Micah Wright/Progaganda Remix, With Permission
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We have to give this to Mr. Bush ~ no law, & no tired meme, will he allow to stand in the way of his quest for all-encompassing executive power. In today’s news, courtesy of The Hill, we learn that Bush used his Saturday radio address to try press forward [...]

With Permission: Micah Wright/Propaganda Remix
Update: The psychedelic, kaleidoscopic, ever-changing world of ‘Berto’s DOJ:
Since ‘Berto’s Tuesday testimony, all the news agencies have set about trying to confirm his surprise testimony that the spying program he tripped himself up testifying about once before was, really a program not heretofore disclosed, so, er ~ he wasn’t technically [...]

Chuck was the last man to question Alberto today. He asked direct yes or no questions of the man who heads our country’s Justice Department. He asked about the meetings with the gang of 8. Schumer asked him direct yes or no questions regarding the clandestine meeting with a barely lucid John Ashcroft at the [...]

Nothing in the MSM about this, but Wired has it:
The Justice Department’s Inspector General and the FBI are investigating an office that sent fake, emergency letters to telecoms requesting phone records, according to the Inspector General’s office. That office lacked the authority to request the records and did not apply for the subpoenas promised [...]