FISA Phone Bank: Call Now!

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Friday June 20, 2008 · 8:34 AM PDT

2008/06/20 · 08:34

Hi Y'all,
I'm having some trouble finding an active phonebank listing to stop (or slow) this FISA train wreck. Here's my list I put together:

Steny Hoyer (202) 225-4131 (staffer says calls are running "100 to 1" against FISA bill!) (D?-MD)
Pat Leahy (202) 224-4242 (staffer "unsure" if there's anything we can do) (D?-VT)
Nancy Pelosi (202) 225-4965 (congresswoman will "hear" your ideas) (D?-CA)
Barack Obama (202) 224-2854 (staffer can't "speak" for Senator, but will pass your comments along) (D-IL)
Harry Reid (202) 224-3542 (D?-NV) (couldn't get through, left message)
Henry Waxman (202) 225-3976 (staffer sympathizes, not sure! of actions to take) (D-CA)
John Rockefeller (202) 224-6472 (staffer listens, will "pass it along" ) (D?-WV)
UPDATES:
Dianne Feinstein (202) 224-3841 (left voice mail--she's a pressure point) (D?-CA)
Barbara Boxer (202) 224-3553 (reliable--but CALL) (D-CA)
Daniel Inouye (202) 224-3934 (needs to hear from us--sorta on the fence) (D-HI)

Please join in calling the above. Today may be a "pressure point"--with calls running 100 to 1 against (in Steny's district!) there is a chance. More knowledgeable people please post further phone lists in comments or link.

Episode #2: The Morning of the Execution

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Wednesday January 03, 2007 · 10:51 PM PST

2007/01/03 · 22:51

Saturday, December 30th, 6:00 a.m., Crawford Texas
(for those of you who missed Episode #1, it's here)

(at breakfast table, looking out at 100 acres of scrubland in the early dawn light)

Hey Laura.

What dear?

Condo just told me. They got Saddam.

Wow, that's wonderful.

Yeah, no kidding, huh.

(pause)

Who's the baddest Bush of them all?

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Friday December 22, 2006 · 8:09 PM PST

2006/12/22 · 20:09

Good morning, Laura. Had a dream last night.

Yeah, honey?

I killed Saddam's sons again.

Yeah, honey, you had that dream before.

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Tuesday June 13, 2006 · 11:18 PM PDT

2006/06/13 · 23:18

Well well well, here we are again. Yes, I'm a little tipsy; just put the two daughters to bed...
So, surely we all hate Slate's "blogger", the unphaseable Mickey Kaus...the best analysis I've ever seen of this despicable, dithyrambic didiot says it like this: "The gentleman's lost his mind, like King Lear, ranting over and over, as he's forced to reply (more than once a day, ha!) that no, no, he's not the famous blogger Markos..."
And no, no, that wasn't his yearly blogfest in Las Vegas this weekend, which some of us were fortunate enough to attend...
So now, on to my point. The "kausfile" palimsest producer, in his latest screed sponsored by Micro$oft's blog, "Slate", blurts out the following:

kf Calibrates Its Outrage: I rag on Markos Moulitsas for his 2004 "screw them" comment about the four American security contractors killed in Fallujah. That comment was more offensive than anything Ann Coulter's book is currently being criticized for. But I have to say that just as Coulter's comments become much less shocking when read in context...

"
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Fight Immigration Criminalization Act HR4437 TODAY!

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Saturday March 25, 2006 · 7:42 AM PST

2006/03/25 · 07:42

For those of you following English-language media, you may have been confused about "immigration" issues you've been hearing about, and about the "largest protest ever" in Phoenix (NY Times), but there has been remarkably little follow up.

What we're protesting is HR4437, a draconian bill promoted by James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), which passed by voice vote in the house on December 16, 2005.

Learn more about the bill at the link above. Summary and protest information on the flip.
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Secret evidence OK, but not to protect women's rights

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Tuesday March 21, 2006 · 12:56 PM PST

2006/03/21 · 12:56

Prosecutors often use evidence such as 911 calls to help convict perpetrators of domestic violence. But if the right wing has its way, not anymore. Consider the case of Michelle McCottry and Amy Hammon, victims of domestic violence, from the Washington Post:

McCottry called 911 to report a beating that her boyfriend had just administered; Hammon gave an account of a fresh attack by her husband to police who came to her home.
McCottry and Hammon did not testify at the men's trials; the state won convictions anyway, based in part on the women's previous statements.
But did those convictions violate the Constitution, which guarantees a defendant the right to confront his accuser in court?

The Supreme Court is about to decide. (more on the flip) Read More

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Fight Immigration Criminalization Act HR4437 TODAY!

Secret evidence OK, but not to protect women's rights