Wow: Leahy further condemned the process, declaring that it "was just slipped in the defense bill as a rider with little study. Other congressional committees with jurisdiction over these matters had no chance to comment, let alone hold hearings on, these proposals."

So, Leahy admits they pass bills without reading them... tell me can i submit tax returns without reading them???

I would be jailed and convicted.

Leahy acknowledges that congress has abrogated all its power to the Executive and is a silent spectator. And when the shit hits the fan, congress wrings its hands and Pelosi keeps saying "We tried hard, the administration will not cooperate"...

Excuse me Pelosi, but which accused has cooperated with cops???

Well considering you can't even executive the subpoena on karl Rove and Todd Palin, i don't expect you to pass a law revoking powers granted to Bush.

Just remember: its not poor suckers/voters who get affected. Ultimately you too will be... just recall what happened when Hitler abolished the Reich Parliment....but am sorry... you don't think: you blindly pass the laws that Bush "requests" you to....

I can only pray for my son: I dearly, dearly hope he doesn't become a congressman, and certainly not a democratic congressman. He's a Man, and i certainly want him to remain one all his life, instead of living the worm-life you are living.

Its better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

My post was meant to be sarcastic.

But if you can't accept truth as you see it, then probably you shouldn't live here.

Tell me what facts i got wrong:

About Obama's capitulation on FISA??

About the press and congress wanting to discuss bailout money instead of questioning why a bailout is necessary?

About Pelosi taking impeachment off the table and capitulating on the offshore drilling bill?

Tell me what drugs what i was on when i wrote facts.

You OTOH probably need to take a dose of reality.

Wait and watch next week: the bill will be passed *exactly* as the rich mens club wants it. *exactly*. Congress WILL hand over your money to Wall Street multi-million dollar CEOs and Traders, while you wait.

And this measure WILL be supported by Pelosi and Obama.

And if am wrong, i will cancel my subscription and apologize to you.

Care to do the same if am right?

How come you hate facts?

Are you living in a fact-challenged-alternate-foxnews-reality?

Plus you seem to hate whoever tells you facts: shades of O'Reilly and Father Jonathan.

Why is that?

Is it because, you know, deep in your hearts the facts speak for themselves, or because you you feel helpless enough to bad mouth anyone who bares the facts for you?

Tell me. Am intrigued.

And am not angry at you or upset because of your profanity.

Am just sad: that you wish to counter facts with profanity.

Your proposal is logical, correct and accurately represented.

Unfortunately, it will not pass:

1) Large bankers will stand to lose millions, which they don't want to.

2) Traders will not get bonuses to buy Lexus and Lamborghinis.

3) Congressmen will not get campaign contribution from fat cats, since they are losing money.

Of all three above reasons, the last one will derail any such meaningul well-meant legislation as yours.

Your proposal is laudable and well-thought-through.

unfortunately, it gives too much power to the voting public and less money to the rich banks.

So such a measure will NEVER even enter the doors of this congress, let alone get passed.

Sorry about my pessimism, but that is the things are now.

Hmmm... very interesting.

I always thought McCain WAS a decent guy.

But now, he has been running power-crazy ever since Rove tantalized him with visions of White House.

Decency is long gone.

He aims to get into the white house by anyway possible: including questionable and possibly illegal means.

So the real McCain is someone like a Bank: Nice when the going is good, loses his shirt when the going is bad.

Would the press be "oh am so sorry"... what if that black woman had a child 17 yrs of age who had a baby?

Obama would have been skewered and his candidacy would have been repealed.

Yet, here we are: cosying up to a blonde dumb beautiful bimbo, who is hotter than her daughter.

Come on women! Is this not fascist, sexist, and all other terms you use whenever you think men are condescending???

Is pelosi dumber or more corrupt than Palin is a PhD question!

She refused to listen to her voters, she refused to listen to experts, and yet she spouts: The party is over, when it clearly would have started if the bill had been passed!

Pelosi should be removed and impeached NOW!

More than Bush, Cheney or even paulson, she is THE most dangerous person.

Her cloak as a Democrat and speaker shows she is a double-agent for the Administration and is willing to go to any extremes to keep Bush's rich friends happy: to the extent she passes laws without debate.

Obama didn't do any good to himself agreeing to the bailout.

Plus voting stats show more Republicans opposed the law more than Dems: which is ironic!

I say, this november, vote EVERY single democrat out of the House and Congress. Every Single one.