E-mail from the ACLU -- bottom line: call your Congresscritter NOW! If your CC is a Bush-loving fascist like mine, call someone else's CC, and call Reyes, too.

Dear Friend,

This week, the ACLU is launching Calling for Freedom, the boldest, most ambitious telephone advocacy program in our history. Working hand-in-hand with other organizations, we’re flooding the House of Representatives with thousands upon thousands of phone calls, urging key members to stand firm against Bush fear-mongering on FISA.

Please call your representative right now.

The House could vote at any time. And there’s no guarantee that they will hold firm on their refusal to pass FISA legislation that defies the Constitution and overlooks telecom companies’ massive invasions of our privacy.

If we hold the line in the House, it will be for one reason: Because you and other ACLU activists across the country generated thousands and thousands of phone calls.

This is an urgent, time-sensitive request. Please call now.

Every week that we prevent the House from passing legislation granting telecom immunity and excusing warrantless eavesdropping is a victory for the Constitution.

Please act now. Keep this dangerous legislation out of President Bush's hands.

Thanks so much for all that you do.

Sincerely,

And, yes, it pisses me off that Hillary is the one who injected Rezko into the debate.

..but why are they doing this? What do they get out of it? I could sort of understand the old "commie threat" -- but why spend all of our taxpayer dollars doing weird stuff in Colombia now? And why get all exercised about Chavez? Me no unnerstand.

Many of my right wing acquaintances -- usually the ones who were apoplectic about Clinton's abuse of power -- say that we still have complete checks on the Executive's power, in two ways: The Congress can vote to change the laws, taking the power given in, say, the Patriot Act, away from the Executive; or, the people can vote the Executive out. But absent that, the Executive has every right to do whatever it can get away with. This last sentiment extends only to "national security" issues, of course. If the Executive were using these powers to enable universal health care or some such, these people would be howling with rage.

DailyKos has some possibly hopeful news that the FISA stuff will get pushed to at least next week. Here's a link, which includes action stuff -- people to call and petitions to sign:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/6/122326/0124/368/470497

Glenn, is there a reason you and FDL aren't doing any of the action stuff? I know the odds are against us, but have you guys completely given up? Just askin'. Kos seems to be the only one covering this.

Thanks for helping on the last gasp, though, Glenn.

..did you have to put a 6:33 YT of Bush on? It's the longest I've forced myself to listen to that mendacious, whiny, smug little sh*t since 2002. Yeesh.

Well, why don't we suggest to the pundits that everybody just lay their dicks on the table and we'll see whose is biggest?

If that's too raw for them, how about "my candidate's dad can beat up your candidate's dad".

I mean, really, that's what they are talking about, isn't it? What a bunch of lame 4th graders. I think I'm starting to dislike most of the press corps as much as the neo-cons, wingers and warbots.

What is the "psychological pain of dealing with Al Qaeda"?

And why don't latte-sipping liberals like Glenn and most of his readers understand it?

In other words, WTF?

Yup, a new and exciting troll who perfectly exemplifies the Republican tough guy swagger. Like his heroes George "AWOL" Bush and Dick "Other Priorities" Cheney. THEY would never get a manicure, no sirree. These manly mental giants agree that the choice is between NASCAR or wimpnitude, and dang it, they're goin' for NASCAR. Nuance is for wusses.

Did you know that Bill Kristol and Dick Cheney are both big NASCAR drivers? Same with Britt Hume. Yup. And they have dirty fingernails from all that oil changin' they do. Hyuk hyuk.

Winger: "Your brain is bigger than my dick, but my dick is bigger'n yours."

Non-Winger: "Dang, I am so p3wnd! I'm voting Republican from now on!"

This is a great idea and thank all of you for doing it. One question, though. I don't know anything about any of these people -- is there a crib sheet on these folks available?

And his surrender monkey status is in tack.

What's that saying? Oh, yeah: When you lay down with dogs, you get it's fleas.

:)

In other news, endless war is peace. George Bush has a strong dollar policy. The U.S. does not torture. We only wire tap terrorists.

Ditto on the welcome back to Paul R.

@Svensker

Sometimes I really think you're a tongue-in-cheek in human form.

Nah. Finger-in-pie in dog disguise.