I also read the article to which you refer.

I just happened to be listening to the radio news, which had a bit of a different cant.

This permalink is now in my Favorites

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/03/mccain/permalink/2cd828d8655840a611dc164fab83bf5b.html

until I memorize that haiku

If you're here, check out my comment at your place.

If Obama stepped up, and made this an issue it would go LONG way toawrd heading off a looming Hoyer/Reyes led debacle.

I've often said I have doubts about whether or not there will even BE an election in '08. GWB has everything in place to declare Martial Law. All he needs is a triggering event. So, there'll be a "Terrorist Attack". An assassination/bombing or some such. And the target will be... wait for it... John McCain. The Rethugs never wanted him anyway. And such an attack will "prove" the terrists were rootin' fer Barack Hussein Obama. Bingo. Four more Wars.

I hope not. And I have nothing other than my own BDS to support the "theory", but... I have nightmares, as well.

And THIS, it bears repeating, is genius!

I had a bad dream.

My old catcher's mitt grew eyes.

And called me "my friend"

You emailed this post directly to Broder.

The Bush Administration ginned up intelligence that was fed to them by... wait for it... Iranian spies.

Seems as if Cheney's office was "compromised" and Rummy's man Stephen Cambone shut down the counterintelligence investigation.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/40080.html

or click sig for linky

"Where the hell is OBAMA on this?" contingent.

Access to his campaign, anyone?

"BigNose strikes again"

Folks, when something seems 100% idiotic, you might want to click the "letters" linky, and scope out the previous submissions.

Sometimes, the appropriate response is laughter, and sometimes [crickets].

I'm sure GG has read this, but everybody else who's interested in the topic of this post ought to read it as well.

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-fisa-debate-is-not-about.html

or click sig for linky

Pelosi at least ought to allow some time for a debate/vote.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Heinrich Heine

German critic & poet (1797 - 1856)

Basically, because it's a given that "everybody does it". Nuthin' we can do about it.

Ah well, we need more Olbermanns.

N/T

Did you have two posts (one for each possible outcome) pre-written?

I shouldn't have used "honest".

It's obvious to anyone reading the post that it wasn't "pre-written". It's pretty intimidating though, the alacrity with which you and Marty Lederman (maybe others, but I'm not aware of them)can peruse, digest, and comment upon the Opinion.

Hats off.

Somebody (Kos?) referenced Scalia's dissent, (Hey, we're at WAR w/ the scary brown men) which is scary. Scarier still that it was 5-4.

I think the 500,000+ dead Iraqis provide compelling evidence that Glenn is correct in his assessment.

For anybody interested, it was John Aravosis, @ Americablog, who cut out the heart of Scalia's dissent.

Nate, you request that responses to ElephantDung be both appropriate and civil. As far as EDung is concerned, the two are mutually exclusive.

I'll have to look up that Obama campaign phone number.

If Obama doesn't step up and quash this b.s., he and every other Dem loses my vote.

GG, how are things in Brazil, comparatively?

(866) 675-2008

Wait for the menu option that says "other questions"...

Makea me laugh!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/congress-nears-deal-on-surveillance-bill/

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wants the matter settled before Congress breaks for Independence Day at the end of next week, suggesting she is ready to bring the issue to a head.

“We want to pass a bill that will be signed by the president,” she said. “And that will happen before we leave for the Fourth of July. So the timing is sometime between now and then. I feel confident that that will happen.”

1705 Longworth House Office Building

Washington, D.C. 20515

Phone - (202) 225-4131

Fax - (202) 225-4300

In case anybody wants to get a head start

Hoyer's phone guy seems pretty defensive. Scared, even, about what he sees as a tremendous backlash headed his way.

I'll post the audio linky when it comes up in 90 min. or so.

And shout-out to GG

My comments begin @ 28:15

Didn't get to finish my comment, and DR allowed only a rebuttal from the Bush shill, but c'est la vie

http://wamu.org/audio/dr/08/06/r1080617-20527.asx

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N/T

And GG is correct about dressing up the amnesty as a compromise.

I spoke to Hoyer's office yesterday. After vociferous denials about the Cong. being "pro-amnesty", I told them I knew exactly what he was up to - and outlined what little I know of the Bill via GG. I was greeted with a silence best described as "stunned".

BTW, Glenn, back in the Yoo thread is a link to audio of the Diane Rehm show this morning - I told her all I know )about Boumadienne) is what I read via Glenn Greenwald @ Salon...

Click sig for linky to ACLU petition against the FISA "compromise".

I spoke w/ some Obama phone person last might, who indicated that Obama "came off the campaign trail" to vote against telco amnesty, and "would likely do so again". I essentially replied w/ "time to sh*t or get off the pot".