UPDATED: I changed the title, as it was not my intention to piss people off. I suppose I was projecting my self-anger.
Anyhow, thanks for putting this on the rec list.
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I am really pissed off about FISA.
I've finally had my fill of the Pelosi regime. I've had enough of Steny Hoyer. I can't help but admit that the 110th Congress has been a horrible failure.
I am even disappointed in Barack Obama. I wish he were showing more leadership on this issue. I wish he were speaking out against this bill. I'm hoping he's working behind the scenes to kill this bill.
BUT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS MY SUPPORT FOR OBAMA CONDITIONAL ON THIS OR ANY OTHER LEGISLATION THIS YEAR.
An admission: I supported and voted for Nader in 2000. Gore was a "sell out" as far as I was concerned. I halfheartedly supported Kerry in 2004, whose leadership skills at the time make Obama look like the second coming of FDR.
And I have nobody but myself to blame for the rotten stinking mess we're in.
That's right. I am to blame. My ideological rigidness prevented me from doing the right thing in both circumstances. I indeed have blood on my hands. I let hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis get slaughtered by our leaders. I stood by and allowed Kerry to be defeated by Gergoe W Bush in 2004 while thousands of military servicemen and women were being sent around the world to be killed or maimed in a war that had no legitimacy.
Yeah I may have protested before and during this horrible war. I may have wrote letters, made phone calls, changed careers, and moved across the country, all in an effort to put an end to this war on terror. But when I had a chance to prevent a first Bush term I undermined his opposition in high minded defiance, and when I had a chance to prevent a second Bush term, I passed on engaging myself with the opposition.
THERE IS NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, THAT COULD STOP ME FROM DOING EVERYTHING I CAN TO PREVENT A THIRD BUSH TERM!
I feel physically sick from the Democrat capitulation/collusion this week. Every time they pass another war spending bill I feel hopeless. That it coincides with yet another compromise of our civil liberties, of the freedom they claim is being defended by these senseless wars, of our rights as citizens of this country, is both an insult and an outrage. And I am 100% cognizant of the devastating effects this will have on our country - in the short and long term.
But again:
THERE IS NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, THAT COULD STOP ME FROM DOING EVERYTHING I CAN TO PREVENT A THIRD BUSH TERM!
That is all.
