of a part of the problem ...

Have been curious about where the money lies in this situation. (We know to WHOM it lies ;D)

Found this free campaign finance site http://www.campaignmoney.com/ , where it's relatively easy to search . (Some are purposely meant to be difficult)

The first Telecom donor I found was the TMobile PAC. Below is a list of Senate recipients . There's not quite 2x that many from the House. I noticed that they only give to incumbents. (Hmmm, wonder why?)

The Senators:

Biden Corker Murray Stevens

Boxer Durbin Pryor Sununu

Carper Klobuchar Reid Thune

Cochran McCain Rockefeller Udall

Collins McConnell Smith

I'm not suggesting it's the sole reason that they do what they do, or that it's a quid pro quo. It does buy access, though. Harder to bite the hand that feeds, if you know it personally. Wondering if there's any way to publicly hit them with a complete compilation of those donations , and embarass some of them into changing their position?(assuming they still have the capacity for embarassment)

"I can laugh at this because I know that it's just 'boy crying wolf'. It's the ignorant choads that I see driving their cars around with their 'Bush 04' stickers still on their cars."

I laugh too, until I think about the high probability that those that haven't scraped those damned things off , still believe.

Yet again, yet more threats to veto the new surveillance law - - you know, the one, in the absence of which, we'll all die tomorrow.

Yes, we'll all die tomorrow but better to die than to live with a new surveillance law that might yield a smidgen of monitoring of surveillance law compliance or a ghost of a chance of any penalty for breaking surveillance laws.

Not that any law have been broken, of course.

In fact, it's well known that everything was kosher, and the President Bush values (selected words and phrases of) the Constitution:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040420-2.html

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
April 20, 2004

President Bush: Information Sharing, Patriot Act Vital to Homeland Security

Remarks by the President in a Conversation on the USA Patriot Act
Kleinshans Music Hall
Buffalo, New York
9:49 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: [...] Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution.

- - President Bush, 04/20/2004

1. Call Reid

2. Resign

1. Strip Holy Joe of any and all committee assignments.

2. Resign

How would you like to be Limbaugh or Shooter tomorrow morning?

I am praying for WMD on America. Literally praying for the mass death of whole cities.

Below is an excerpt from Armagednoutahere's letter below.

I agreed completely with that excerpt and hope the Dems have the analytical ability that A has and make this confession of incompetence part of the campaign in the general election.

"...somehow after all these years of terror-fighting, by their own admission now, this alleged war president hasn't made any progress against this enemy. In fact in this bizarre scenario it's the administration itself now telling us that Al-Qaeda are now even (somehow) more dangerous than they were before these amazing terror-fighters got started. How is it possible for these people to play the role of super-duper warriors against terror when they haven't accomplished anything in the years since 9/11 but to to let Al-Qaeda become even more powerful and scary. Can you imagine what the Republicans would say if the Dems tried to pull something like this? The fact that this (oh so terrible) enemy is even more capable of attacking us now, after all these years of war and death and wasted money, should preclude the possibility that these idiots would get anything they ask for at this point. This administration's incompetence alone should be enough to guarantee they won't be given what they're demanding...."

I can laugh at this because I know that it's just 'boy crying wolf'. It's the ignorant choads that I see driving their cars around with their 'Bush 04' stickers still on their cars.

It's those people that live and breath and like those sheep that seize whe overly excited, their mind just stops working in the 'adult' mode and start operating in the overly emotional state of the primitive reactive brain.

People that live like that react to the 'news' that a boogie man wants to kill them by throwing all logic and common sense out the window and become programmed Manchurian candidates and vote for Bush, or even Satan...

Well, then there are those Neanderthals that voted for Bush because the either believed all the bullshit that turd blossom wrapped him in or actively wanted Bush to destroy the planet.

I wish that I could invalidate the votes of those die hard Bush voters. They show that they don't take this voting thing seriously so they should not be able to make the rest of us suffer.

But 'fear' like 'religion' are powerful controlling tools for the masses... *sigh*

I still expect a desicated Bin Laden to be rolled out before the election. Don't be surprised...

Speaking at the U.N. he spoke of the stench of brimstone the day after der Fuhrer hisself stumbled his way through a string of homilies and threats.

Mr. Timberland writes: "Sol Invictus should be ashamed of himself, pretending to be an American."

Ol' Sol, like Elvis, has left the building. These guys pop in, take a dump, and exit (unless they are like the bad boys -- Shooter comes to mind -- who come looking for abuse). Like that dog turd you stepped in and scraped off, physically it's gone, but the stink lingers.

I'm lurking today. I voted (1 1/2 hours in line, a good day for democracy?) I also did some chores, some shopping, and some over-ambitious cooking which turned out much better than the cook had any right to expect. I also picked up C-hag's prize at the post office. Good for a giggle, and definitely good to share with friends.

It's been a slow day, I see, with one particularly vicious peddler from the Cheney swamp. It's hard to believe such a terrible excuse for a human being actually exists.

Anyway, this is just a howdy, B. I should say hello to Arne and Mona, too, before they get away again.

You mentioned the Potomac a while back. One day, some twenty years ago, I stood out in back of Mount Vernon, away from the tour guide, admiring the view -- all that green grass sloping down to the river. Just as I was getting ready to leave, the light hit the river just so...a silver artery looping through our colonial past. George and Martha must have loved it. I certainly won't ever forget it.

Sol Invictus should be ashamed of himself, pretending to be an American.