Well, "1984" is truely here. I guess I will run out and buy the book today, and use it as my survival manual for the dark days ahead. The Democratic and Republican parties are rotton to the core. Guess there is no turning back to some sanity and reason.

Look, the guy has shoved gay people under the CHRISTIANIST bus, and when called on it, he just won't stop. He will not get my vote.

Foster;

"Nobody is above the law and telecom companies who engaged in illegal surveillance should be held accountable, not given retroactive immunity. I flatly oppose giving these companies an out for cooperating with Alberto Gonzalez on short-circuiting the FISA courts and the rule of law."

As was pointed out, this may not have been the primary reason that Foster was elected in a decidedly red district, however I take great comfort that these sentiments were not the reason for his defeat. I mean, from my distant view, it seems that most of America has lost its collective sanity and has lost its ability to see the truth along time ago.

So, what do we have here? A very conservative voting block that can sometimes see logical reasoning by an official running for elected office in spite of having to look through the thick fog of false information? I generally have no sympathy for the seemingly ignorant American voter, especially the conservative Republicans of late. I generally believe that they receive the leaders that they deserve, such as Bush and company. However, I do have compassion for them when I look at the miasma they have to wade throught to get to the truth. American voters, Dems and Repubs alike, continually get snowed over by false information, not only from corrupt power hungary Republicans and a sophmoric, anything but professional and complicit press, but by the corrupt Democratic leadership as well.

It is possible that the masses, even the conservative ones, are starting wake up to the sad American political reality and that they recognise that the truth and the present constitutional law does matter? For the sake of the future of the republic, let's hope so.

I personally believe that if more people in the world were getting laid on a regular basis, 80% of the worlds problems would vanish overnight.

Yes, Spitzer, like most versions of the morality police, are hypocrites....tell me and the world something new. Tell me why this is news though and why all the grand intensity of the moral outrage! Like Joan Rivers used to say about a different issue, "Oh, GROW UP!". This is my advice to America and the rest of the world in general. Don't we have more important things to concern ourselves with??? Better yet, why doesn't everyone realize that the more one pontificates against something, the more likely that person is involved in that behaviour. It is true more times than not.

WTF?!! Ross, like this is really blankety blank important? Get a grip Ross. I can see this piece in the national enquirer, but I really hate to admit that this type of "investigative reporting" is the majority of crap one sees in the MSM these days.

You know Glen and all, I feel like it is only gross children who run this government and only children that report on the government agenda for the last decade or two. Are there any adults left in the press, government or the general population of USA at all???? When will it all stop???

Glen,

Well I suppose it is not over till it is over, but the indications of good news is very welcome indeed. Much of the encouraging news reported today regarding signs that the Republicans may give up this FISA and telecom amnesty issue is due to YOUR LEADERSHIP in rallying the dedicated troops found here on your blog and elsewhere. You, are the leader of my hero's!

A heartfelt and sincere thanks Glen and many "Thank You's" as well to all of your supporters of our great USA Constitution on this blog and elsewhere.

This news instills great hope in me, hope that has now been absent for over 7 years.

First came the Bush "election", then 9/11, then the war run up and now the aftermath.

Around 2003 I increasingly felt like and started to believe that I was living this nightmare movie come alive. The only plotline difference is that the pod people were all extreme right wing Republicans and all that entails.

Hell, even my Democratic and Independent friends became "possessed" with the popular lies this administration fed to us. Similarily like the friends of the protagonists of the movie. My greatest fear was that I too would become like the masses or a pod person myself.

To save my sanity I left the country, if only to view the madness from a distance. Only recently have I witnessed some significant portion of the population begin to wake up to the harsh truth of our current cultural and political reality. I owe this shift in thinking mainly due to the discussions carefully crafted and painstakingly researched by you Glen and authors of the same ilk. Thank you.

Yes, the terror grows once the seed is planted and people stay asleep. Let's hope that more and more people become awake before it it truely too late.

Here are some tag lines from the 1978 movie remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.......

"Get some sleep

Sleep . . . Sleep . . . and be born again into a world without fear and hate!

Watch out! They get you while you're sleeping!

You'll never close your eyes again.

From deep space...

The seed is planted...terror grows".