If the dems cave on this there is no turning back in my opinion. In the meantime, won't you join me in rewarding Qwest for their patriotic decision making regarding warrantless wiretapping? Sign up for their telephone, internet or television service. Port your cell number from one of the lawbreakers to the law obeyers. Punish the evil doers while rewarding the good doers at the same time.

And I actually believed that 2006 was a turning point. It stings even worse when they are supposed to be on your side...

Count me as a minion in your jouranlistic jihad Glenn. It is long over due that the likes of Klein have their feet held to the fire. If only I had a subscription to Time that I could cancel with righteous indignation I would sleep well tonight.

Time is killing their brand, such that it is. Even a wingnut with half a wit must be thinking to themselves, "jeez, I know they can lie for us better than that. They're incompetent!" Poor little Joe, that pasty white rear end of his must be red by now.

Works great as a disinfectant. Might take a little of the stink off Schumer and Feinstein, although I doubt it.

A thing of beauty that. With you like Holly, my spirits are bouyed a bit. I'll be watching tomorrow and will be on the horn with Smith/Wyden from Oregon. I have hope for Wyden supporting Dodd, but Smith for all intents and purposes is a lost cause.

Why in hell do folks still listen to or read the writings of these people? I think they're scared of Edwards quite frankly. He has broad appeal with his economic message and the spell over the lemmings in the Republican party is breaking (see Huckster). I think it is possible that if Edwards makes the general his message becomes a mass movement on his way to the WH. That scares the hell out of vapid soulless folks like Noonan. Eeek! People with pitchforks! Oh, and I love how they all talk about his hair and his mansion when they tell us he is inauthentic with his "Two Americas" message. Well all the other candidates are rich too and they aren't talking about these issues! So give me Edwards!

"Drivel

"Our vaunted super-tech military is currently failing in Iraq and Afghanistan to people armed with ak47's, simple bombs, and guts."

:)

You're a year behind the news dude.

Get with it."

Are you saying "mission accomplished"? If so, let's bring the troopers home... if not, then how is Drivel wrong? A two month dip in violence does not "smell like victory" to me. We've already lost in fact when you consider the dead and wounded, damage to our reputation, damage to our economy etc. Unless you think that caring for 10s of thousands of terribly wounded people for the next 40 years is good for the medical and psyciatric industries.

I wrote my flunky Republican senator asking him to oppose immunity and this is a portion of the letter that I received in the mail:

"Recently, the Bush Administration has asked the Congress to provide telecommunications companies with immunity from lawsuits brought against them for assisting surveillance efforts without warrants. An individual may be granted immunity from prosecution for his or her testimony in very limited cases. Therefore, 'congress must use careful discretion when considering expanding this protection."

I'm not quite sure what to make of this other than he is a pointless stuffed suit weasel. Is he saying the telecoms had to cooperate with the government or they would have been prosecuted? For what? Allowing potential terrorists to use their services? Can anyone help me here?

If the dems can't find the courage to get off their knees here then I think all hope is lost. Honest to christ, what will it take? OBL is the best thing that ever happened to these PNAC crazies, he is the gift that keeps on giving. Bush and OBL need each other for relevance, they keep making things worse for the other 6 billion of us and therefore, better for them. Awful, truly awful.

Glenn,

Kudos on the release. I'll be picking up a copy tomorrow... can't wait to get into it. I read Digby's take on the first chapter and look for to the John Wayne myth take down.

Everytime MoveOn or the ACLU come under serious attack (Betrayus, FISA etc.) my brain triggers me to make a $50 donation (and I'm kinda poor so I wish they would stop). As long as we have brave citizen activists willing to stand up to the powerful, we cannot be stopped. At least not yet. Things do appear darker however, ominous. The demonizing of the ACLU by the Right over the years has reached a level of absurdity that I thought thinking people just couldn't go there... but of course I'm wrong.

I didn't know Greenwald was a pinko Stalinist. If I had known, I wouldn't read his writings religiously and think to myself, "Fucking Finally!, someone who speaks to me and my beliefs!" Guess I'm a Pinko too.

When do we reach the point of so much of our public commons being farmed out to private corporations that there is no going back? Quite literally, our politicians are selling off this country for pennies on the dollar and the stuffing of their campaign coffers. I fear there will come a day when the CEO of Halliburton will be the de facto CEO of America. (Not that it hasn't already happened).

Thanks Glenn for being there. The corporate media has very little on this. CNN just reported a largely peaceful demnostration (10k or so) with a few peeling off to cause some havoc. Somehow I doubt Amy was one of those...