It's nice to win one - and more than a little weird to participate in a public forum, disembodied, and anonymous (well, probably not to anyone who really wants to find out, but mostly!). And then to take individual action, identified.

Thankfully we have C-Span and can watch the smarmy Mr. Reid do the bidding of his corporatist masters. I'm sorry I couldn't see his face when he pulled the bill.

Very positive and entertaining group! Thank you, Mr. Greenwald, for your hard work in this regard. I have been reading your blog for a couple of years, and am delighted you now have a paying gig, and don't have to beg.

The "don't send that memo" discipline is pretty much absent around here in blog-land, so there's pretty much a permanent record of all your passionate typewriter spray - I guess that's not all bad.

My cat's singing on top of the stepladder.......bye!

It's nice to win one - and more than a little weird to participate in a public forum, disembodied, and anonymous (well, probably not to anyone who really wants to find out, but mostly!). And then to take individual action, identified.

Thankfully we have C-Span and can watch the smarmy Mr. Reid do the bidding of his corporatist masters. I'm sorry I couldn't see his face when he pulled the bill.

Very positive and entertaining group! Thank you, Mr. Greenwald, for your hard work in this regard. I have been reading your blog for a couple of years, and am delighted you now have a paying gig, and don't have to beg.

The "don't send that memo" discipline is pretty much absent around here in blog-land, so there's pretty much a permanent record of all your passionate typewriter spray - I guess that's not all bad.

My cat's singing on top of the stepladder.......bye!

It's nice to win one - and more than a little weird to participate in a public forum, disembodied, and anonymous (well, probably not to anyone who really wants to find out, but mostly!). And then to take individual action, identified.

Thankfully we have C-Span and can watch the smarmy Mr. Reid do the bidding of his corporatist masters. I'm sorry I couldn't see his face when he pulled the bill.

Very positive and entertaining group! Thank you, Mr. Greenwald, for your hard work in this regard. I have been reading your blog for a couple of years, and am delighted you now have a paying gig, and don't have to beg.

The "don't send that memo" discipline is pretty much absent around here in blog-land, so there's pretty much a permanent record of all your passionate typewriter spray - I guess that's not all bad.

My cat's singing on top of the stepladder.......bye!

equals a war on a convenient segment of the population. DFH's, Blacks, (all brown people, for that matter), artists, non-conformists, eccentrics of all kinds, sick people for whom medicine = something from nature rather than a chemical expensive pill from corporatist drug pushers, and so on.

The authoritarian mind cannot tolerate the idea that someone somewhere is having fun. Experiencing joy in a way he cannot experience or understand.

Stamp it out, crush it, make the different ones conform!

Fuck the fascists and the narrow destructive world they love. They worship death, they see the earth as a source of loot, they exploit all they can and demonize those they can't exploit. (admittedly sophomoric, but it sure seems true to this old boy).

These fuckers are always finding some new "war" to inflict on the body politic. And they don't even have to make sense. War on terror? WTF?

Time to get yer war on greedy fucking corporatist bastards. Send a few Telco presidents to jail in irons and see how soon they toe the line. Send Bush and company to the green zone forever. Or until Iraq is a functioning democracy, whichever comes first.

Chris Dodd OK!!!!! Give the man some love........

Because the administration could have implemented a wiretap without a warrant from the FISA court and then get a warrant within 72 hours.

Why are we ruled by these filthy liars? It's in your bible - "thou shalt not bear false witness". And they wrap themselves in unction and call themselves Christians. (also in the bible - "thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain" - if you falsely take on Christ's mantle, are you not so doing?)

Pharisees. Sadducees. Hypocrites. Thieves.

What a clear and concise statement of the issue. Well done, sir.

If the telecom companies were responding to these so-called "lawful requests", then why do they need retroactive immunity from prosecution? If they didn't break the law, they have nothing to fear, right?

Now, as to any potential "lawless requests", why should anyone have immunity from prosecution?

Unless your name is Scooter Libby, Caspar Weinberger, etc.

Gangster wannabe? I mean like a cur, female version. With his tail between his legs. Nothing else there.....

Where are the street fighters? Is Harry Reid's spineless acquiescence the best we can come up with? He's acting just like a beaten bitch. Licking the hand that beats him.

This is what abject capitulation looks like. What a disgrace. What a sham. What a fucking travesty.

Mr fucking Magoo. What a fucking milquetoast.

Watch this slow-motion destruction of our Republic on C-span.

It is to shake and shout in rage and horror.

What else can you do faced with corruption and fraud on such a vast scale? Creeping Fascism has actually become an Actual Predatory fascist State masquerading as our federal government. Reid is a quisling. A fucking quisling. At least Lieberman is honest about his treachery.

The long slow recovery of our damaged Republic will only begin with Bushco operatives, including Bush himself, in jail.

However, this requires Democrats to grow a pair. No evidence of this at all.