Letters to the Editor
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@ bamage
Amazing. I was actually in the midst of reading the Yoo article when I checked back and saw your message. Do you suppose we should get out more often? :-)
(Never mind, shooter. You've had a bag over your head since you first showed up here. Go ahead and heh. No one will take it for more than it is.)
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Reid's Reno office
I live in Reno and I called Reid's local office last month to ask about the senator's position on telecom amnesty. The ashole who answered the phone would only take my name and address to have Harry send me his position. I still have not received an answer.
Reid is tool. He's either blackmailed, neck deep in complicity, a GOP mole, or he's following the wishes of the Morman church (who needs to elect Romney when you have Reid up your sleeve).
God knows what motivates the man but rule of law is definitely not it.
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@Chris Dowd
I was reading a thread on a reich winger site today in which they were bemoaning the lack of media coverage to the EGADS- three million pages- of ancient Hillary Clinton papers on her attempt to nationalize health care.
Ah, yes, the terrible national health care.
How many of these so-called conservatives give half a fuck as much about the $10 TRILLION debt Bush has given us, almost all Republican PORK, and not a veto in sight.
"small government" my ass. "conservatives" my ass. "free markets" my ass.
If any of these GOP slaves would bother to look in a fuckin' dictionary, they'd see their party HATES their values, HATES their worldview, and is doing all it can to consolidate as much power into the federal government as it can.
You know what sort of media wouldn't be considered "liberal" by Bots? A media that was Stalinist like in its worshipful praise of Bush and the federal government (along with homo erotic military glorifying imagery).
Oh, so FOX.
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@WT
Never mind, shooter. You've had a bag over your head since you first showed up here. Go ahead and heh. No one will take it for more than it is.
It's whistling past the graveyard as the fascist implications of his party-love become inescapable.
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Folks, democracy is weird, let me tell you.
OK, I just talked to Hillary's office.
I got the number off of Fire-Dog-Lake.
It's really weird having a 30 second conversation with what sounds like a n eighteen-year-old girl about how the Senator needs to show up in person tomorrow.
(in the perkiest of perky voices-chipmunk-esque, almost) "Senator Clin-ton's office!"
"umm...Hi, I don't normally do this sort of thing..." this is where it probably sounds like I'm calling some phone sex line or something "...I mean calling a Senator, you know..."
"Uh-huh! Well, O-kay!!"
"umm...so anyway, I'm a constituent of Senator Clinton's, I live in Manhattan in New York City..."
"That's great!"
"Right, so I'm calling about this FISA bill vote tomorrow..."
(her voice lowers two octaves) "Yes..."
"...and it's really important to me that she show up..."
"Okay..."
"...in person..."
"Oh."
"...to vote on this, you know, to support Chris Dodd's filibuster, you know, so that she shows that she means it when she says that she'll reverse the course that President Bush has taken the country on for the past eight years..."
"...right..."
"...and I'm just calling to let her know that at least one of the people who has an opportunity to vote for her in the primary, in the general and if things don't work out so well, maybe in another primary and general..."
"uh-huh..."
"...meaning if she were to run for the Senate in New York again..."
"...right..."
"...anyway, this one person has been reading a bunch of blogs today, and is terribly concerned that Senator Clinton won't do the right thing and show up tomorrow in person to cast her vote for the rule of law in support of the Dodd filibuster of telecom amnesty--that's what I'd appreciate it so much if you'd communicate to Senator Clinton, OK?"
"Well, I'll let her know that right away..."
"Super...thanks a bunch."
(voice back up into helium-party territory)
"Okay then, you have a great day!"
"umm...thanks, you too..."
Folks, democracy is weird, let me tell you.
Try this yourself, if you don't believe me.
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So what is the difference?
I have watched Republicans while they were 'out of power' and while they we 'in power' for 40 years or so; and I have watched the same with the Democrats. I have seen the 'rank and file' get screwed time after time after time.
We get lip service paid to a pet concern or issue and we think that the fellow will make a super president or senator or whatever --- and it almost always turns out wrong. After all, look at the USA; is the country becoming more moral? Getting more justice? Better economy for the little guy?
What is the difference in the parties? Both will kill innocent foreigners at the drop of a hat; in my lifetime both parties have backed horrible war crimes.
After all is said and done, what is the difference?
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Bucky1! Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
Health care! Abortion! The right to bear arms! One is represented by a donkey! Other one is an elephant! NASCAR! The Super Bowl! USA! USA! USA!
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@stuart_zechman
I said "twelve-year-old", but I must have talked to the same, uh, woman answering Hillary's office phone. Surreal, wasn't it?
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CALL AND WRITE THOSE SENATORS!
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Keep in mind that when you call, many Senate offices are on the lookout for Dirty Fucking Hippies, and they will ask what Zip Code you live in, or where in the state you live.
In the meantime, we should find candidates to challenge these cowards in the next primary.
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Bush 41 preemptively pardoned Caspar Weinberger.
Weinberger had been indicted and was awaiting trial when the elder Bush pardoned him.
Anyone who was paying attention at the time knows Cap the Knife was pardoned because his diary made it clear that Bush 41 was involved in Iran Contra far more heavily than his "out of the loop" statements would indicate.
To the best of my knowledge this had never happened before in the history of the United States. And yet the Democrats responded with a collective yawn of boredom.
I'm going to ask again, not really expecting an answer, in fact just the opposite.
What is the substantive difference between retroactive immunity and a preemptive pardon?
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -Santayana