Letters to the Editor
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They don't care
They simply don't care what We The People want. We can scream it in their face until the cows come home and they'll do whatever the hell they want regardless.
It's time to clean house. I'm freakin' tired of the lot of 'em.
He might actually be worse than Lieberman. At least Lieberman is honest about his efforts to stab democrats in the back.
Et tu, Harry?
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it makes me sick
i made a contribution to Dodd, rewarding good behavious...Harry Reid & the DLC can @#&$%ing choke on it.
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Nevada
Wow. You guys elected this nutbag? Maybe Bennett is right, gambling does corrupt the soul...but that doesn't explain Lieberman and Connecticut. Maybe both states are full of idiots.
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I'm reminded of this exchange
I engaged in over at the National Association of Manufacturers blog. (The day of the Dodd showdown, they were among the more up-to-date sites covering it)
http://blog.nam.org/archives/2007/12/new_white_house.php
NAM:
On the Senate floor a moment ago, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) just dismisses these arguments as scare tactics. Really? To us it seems like a reasoned argument based on human nature and legal principle, one that cites Kennedy's own colleagues in the Senate, those who serve on the Intelligence Committee.
Most of the hysterical, fear-mongering rhetoric we've seen in this debate comes from the foes of effective intelligence, anti-Bush partisans and privacy absolutists.
PHD:
Human nature dictates that any activity which is not subject to review is invariably subject to abuse. Legal principle dictates that when a law is inconvenient, the proper course is to change the law first and then change you action, not to violate the law with impunity and then change it after the fact complete with sheilding for past flagrant violation.
It would appear that your argument fails on both fronts.
You may say that this means that I am a foe of effective intelligence, anti-Bush partisan or privacy absolutist but that would indicate to me that your argument has devolved into name calling and barely concealed self interest.
NAM:
UPDATE A commenter objects to the final sentence as name-calling. Pshaw. It's an accurate representation of the debate as out carried by special-interest groups and politicians. Sen. Bond and Sen. Hatch have spoken this afternoon in favor of the Senate Intelligence version of the bill, and their reasoned arguments avoided the too-quick charges of bad faith and criminality that those on the other side of the issue seem to enjoy.
I only bring it up because it appears that impunging our motives while failing to address our arguments is fast becoming SOP.
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@Paul Dirks
I only bring it up because it appears that impunging our motives while failing to address our arguments is fast becoming SOP.
I think this has been the SOP for the GOP for a long, long time. They sneer, name call, and avoid answering even the basic of questions about their position.
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And Not Just FISA
The attitude underlying the contemptuous dismissal of Dodd's and Feingold's objections (and ours, as well) displayed by msm and other officials, both elected and appointed, is nearly identical to the attitude regarding any serious impeachment effort against VP Cheney. Representatives Wexler, Gutierrez and Baldwin, members of the House Judiciary Committee all, couldn't even get their editorial on the matter published by the NY Times, WaPo, Boston Globe or LA Times. And this despite obvious violations of both the Constitution and various statutes. These media organs long ago cast aside serious examination of government, its representatives and--as representatives--their responsibility to the citizens of the United States.
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To paraphrase "the queen of mean"
Only the little people obey laws.
Compare and contrast:
We have a prison system full to overflowing with little people convicted often of what amounts to apostasy against the state religion.
Major corporations flagrantly break the law and are not only not punished but are positively rewarded.
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The scuffed shoe hillbilly wants to scream to wimpy boy Harry-Reid...?...can I belch a whisper in his ear?.
No. I'd probably bite it off and spit it out. Or I'd do one of those, "Want to hear a secret?" Then ya's bellows like a slobbering donkey and hock a cup of coffee in the ear. Yuck.
There is a whimpering voice guy who was afraid of Caesar in Plutarch's Lives. It's too embarrassing to Reid in public. Harry may cry. He's so harried. He's the purse holder. He's soft voiced, scared, and with pursed lip....He is also saying anyone with two-'belly-buttons' is just a lame grandstanding donkey.
Reid thinks critics who preserve decency are just "prepping-up the slumping presidential flag pole?" What a low blow.
(Well. Harry-Reid is sniffing the "cynical" Congressional "critters" pet pole cat and pumping that?)
Have some flounder for breakfast and grandstand- sheet's.
He says, "Don't yell at me for saying this?" whimpers.
He needs to quit and be a full time nutcracker. heh.
He needs to rent a suit and play the Mall Santa. phat?
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"Where to Begin?"
Some people have assumed these jokes in DC are good for the world. No. They are the flimsiest jelly-fish-gulps. Greed.
Yes Reid. They stifle good works and any honesty. And now, citizens gotta keep up screaming our petitions in Reid's piglet's velvet purse ear. What awe? Yea, awed. They are Not public servants, rather,
Oh, see arrogance and whimpers!
O, ya's majestic maggot?
These critters need to not be scared and insecure. A few people bully them around (Chaney, Joe, Snoopy?) but they must Learn to know they (Harry Reid's boy/girl scouts membership club) are whips...and masses of citizens are disgusted!
Keep up the shouting. Let them not ASSUME we think they are a might sacked cats (pole cat), but we KNOW they are increasingly scaredy cats in some jittery pants. Nothing can stifle the truth. They assume that? What a great error!
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obstructionism
i'm so glad this essay was posted immediately after the one on republican obstructionism... because i think it shows that reid et al. really don't care about republican obstructionism - they won't confront it directly as it is happening in either their press releases, conversations with reporters, on the sunday morning talk shows or procedurally in congress.
instead, after a year of caving and complicity, we get a cynical ploy aimed at the democratic base in order to extract more money and more volunteer hours for the coming elections. if our democratic leaders actually objected to republican obstructionism to the degree they object to dodd's (and feingold's last year) principled stands - then they would do something to fight the republican obstructionism. but they don't.