By, By Miss American Pie
The Congress has just folded
On protecting you and I,
They were played to the hilt by a pie in the sky
Promise of revisions, dangled from on high...
And we just lost our Democracy, Constitution, and the future the Founders intended...
Observations on the Senate vote on throwing over the rule of law in favor of the rule of one man.
George Bush threatened to veto any FISA changes that did not comply it their entirity, with his demands. George Bush threatened to call Congress back into session if they didn't give him the bill he wanted this weekend.
And, Heaven knows, getting on the road for the August recess is much more important that whether Alberto Gonzolas, draftsman of the tortue provisions, drafter of the Gitmo Fiasco, and a man who admits he signs things without reading them is put in charge of deciding who gets wire tapped without any evidence presented before a Court!
We lost Jim Webb when he voted to support the Bond-McConnell Ammendment to the FISA bill.
We did keep Jon Tester. Good on ya' Jon!
Sheldon Whitehouse gets it. He made a strong statement against giving the authority to determine who will be wire tapped to the Executive Branch.
Mary Landru is an idiot. She voted Yes, before she voted No, before she supplied the 60th Yes vote, needed for passage.
Joementum needs to be forcefully removed from the Democratic Party, caucus, and any breakfast or luncheon in which he can claim "non-partisanship". He is a pure shill for the Unitary Executive.
We can no longer rely on either court review, or application for redress, if the FBI, NSA, HLS, or DOD should decide that they don't like what we say on the phone, on line, or by that now nearly non-existant USPS charmer called mail. The Father of the Homeland is steadily, and successfully transferring all power to the Executive Branch, and the Congress and the Judiciary seem to be either unaware of what is happening, or indifferent.
The Democrats in the US Senate are systematically getting rolled, once again, by veiled threats of terrorism, closed briefings about "traffic", and the implicit threat that if they don't give George Bush EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS, they will be targeted in the next election.
Where are the real patriots?
Where are the men and women who value the American Experiment enough to stand for the Constitution, and the Civil Rights of citizens over campaign cash, and Rovian threats, deliverd with no subtlety, no real skill, and no power to effect, if they just stood up on their hind legs and made the case for the Separation of Powers?
Has the MSM convinced them that Americans are just too stupid, too "disengaged", too busy in pursuit of Brittany, and Lindsey, and that other twit, to understand a well laid out discussion of the issue at hand?
If so, they have seriously misjudged both us, and the citizens of this country.
It's time to stop thinking that anyone who calls themselves a Democrat is someone whom we should work to elect. It's past time to start demanding our candidates demonstrate adherence to the Constitution and to the the specified rights of citizens. It's time to demand candidates with the brains, and clarity of understanding to defend the rule of law.
We need to find and elect REAL PATRIOTS!