Letters to the Editor
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Well, I'm depressed
It is so discouraging, after these long months, after all of the calling and writing that has been done, to see it end this way. I had let myself hope that we could win this one. I had no expectation that the Republican bloc would cave, but that wasn't necessary for success. In the end, we were brought down by traitors in our midst.
I think now might be an appropriate time to start pushing for the removal of Harry Reid as leader of the Democrats following the next election. He has been manifestly inept at uniting his party on key votes such as this one, and has had little success in responding to the obstructionism of the Republicans.
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I saw Mike Muck'asey on 'The News Hour' with Kim L.
The A.G. needs some artificial respiration? It was a legal-talk about basic recycling practices? Is he making an impression with legal minds & enhancing public understanding?
Sigh
What an humanitarian thinking-tank!
Is this waste-audit audio-talk lingo?
What compost pile was used to recycle him?
Isn't there a law about illegal dumping in public?
Gads. It's too complicated for many of us who drink raw milk.
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Thanks Harry...
Sent to Harry (genuflect when you say that) Reid:
"I can't believe that you actually back the destruction of the constitution!
Nice going sir!
You aren't a member of an opposition party. You are a sniveling, obsequious simpleton and a traitor to the very country you swore an oath to protect!
Welcome to the fourth Reich where everything that was is no more.
All in the paranoia and fear, everything was lost...
The government should fear the people not the people fearing their government..."
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Are there 41 senators...?
Are there 41 senators smart enough to understand the significance of what they are voting on, and patriotic enough to torpedo this obvious assault on our liberty?
Or is our Democrat-controlled Senate a whore-house?
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Funeral for the Constitution on a runaway train
I'm frankly tired of both the Dems who are active collaborators and those who think fine speeches are enough. Although I respect Senators Feingold & Dodd, I can read historical orators for inspiring speeches. To me this is simply Leahy & co. huffing & puffing, as usual. GG's point about the last election is well-taken.
The GOP spent years looking up every little item they could to obstruct oversight, block independent counsel, etc. Wish the Dems had the initiative to study as hard when their turn came. Too many were out campaigning, I guess. And Lieberman, who had the full support of the Clintons in his CT power-grab, turned like a jackal on the whole party.
So now we can be spied on, taped, fingerprinted, put on watch lists, refused employment, secretly arrested, extraordinarily rendered or hidden in a gulag without legal representation and censored in our written complaints, all with the cooperation of the companies we do business with just because the president says so. Thanks Dems - helluva red, white & blue job!
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Like impeachment?
I think now might be an appropriate time to start pushing for the removal of Harry Reid as leader of the Democrats following the next election. He has been manifestly inept at uniting his party on key votes such as this one, and has had little success in responding to the obstructionism of the Republicans.
It's a little too late for that, isn't it?
Removing Harry Reid should have started the very instant that this all started looking like he was going to cooperate.
The internets has made people much less likely to march in their offices and stage sit down strikes and basically get in their faces. If 'we the people' stormed Washington DC and occupied offices of those that concocted this travesty and those that greased the wheels for its passage they would have to deal with the fact that it's not just a bunch of weirdos sending thousands upon thousands of emails and blog posts, it's real weirdos that are afraid of the way that the country is being run into the ground. If 'we the people' stormed Washington DC and let the leaders know that we aren't happy and that it is US that own them rather than the corporations, then maybe we can get things working again.
The internets have been a great savior and a great hindrance.
It's just amazing that with all of the history of bad ideas and abuses of power from 1984 to Brave New World, etc, etc, etc that we would be facing such a crisis in this supposedly 'modern age'.
So are we supposed to now form groups that check up on others to see when they are disappeared? A nice touch. As long as the re-education camps are in a warmer climate it can't be all bad. It's 12 degrees here right now!
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JackHughes
Are there 41 senators smart enough to understand the significance of what they are voting on, and patriotic enough to torpedo this obvious assault on our liberty?
No.
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This Republic was lost in 2000.
I showed signs of nausea (i.e. Iran Contra) but somehow the electorate paused and elected a moderate Democrat for eight years who used that time to help us a bit but ended-up helping himself to his sexual digressions that ultimately handed the W.H. to the neocons. It's a bit simplistic, but when an x-sitting president cant even hand over his own home state for his V.P.'s presidential run (never mind Gore couldn't even hold Georgia) The damage was already well on it's journey to the third world we now find ourselves in. My God, there is no focus, no accountability, no unity, no opposition to blatant law breaking, no semblance of moral or ethical boundaries. It's all turned to shit. What happened to Dodd's screaming that he would filibuster the bill? Where is Obama and Billary? Where is the MSMedia? That Liberal Free Press? How can this possibly be happening in a once proud democracy? Nauseating, truly nauseating. Why bother with the next round of elections. They are all, all of them , the same. It's nothing but a waste of time...
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Amnesty and the Law
It will be a sad day. I have no faith in the Senate. There's Sen Coburn whose hold holds. There is Sen Dodd whose hold does not hold. There is something rotten in the sate of the senate. I don't believe any one of the presidential candidates will do anything. All three of the leading ones will not be there. They have more important priorities: advancing themselves while the country goes backwards. I did not think I would get the point at which I have absolutely no respect for McCain ( straighttalk), Clinton (experience) or Obama (inspiration). They are all in this for themselves. Never heard a straight talk piece about amnesty, nor a lawabiding one from the I can be just as tough one, nor let us all obey the law from the hopeful one.