Letters to the Editor
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@BB
You probably know they endorsed Joe Lieberman last time around, even after he spoke out against ensuring that "morning after" contraception be made available at all hospitals.
All "liberal" advocacy groups are not necessarily liberal.
That's why netroots advises donations to ActBlue or Emily's List, not individual groups. Some of those groups should fold.
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How About Rockefeller?
I hear Rockefeller is part of the deal. I realize he will be hard to go after but we brought down Hastert. Let's make a concerted effort to go after Rockefeller.
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What do you want to bet that post is gone from Kos?
please see Clinton camp call Indiana people "white ni****rs"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/2/93316/53926/838/507664
-- tommydsz
Even Atrios is apologizing for linking to it.
Anyway, dumb fake controversy. Apologies for even linking to it.
Have all you people lost your minds!!??!!
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Who are these "blue dogs?"
Glenn I'm afraid you don't understand the kind of pressure these blue dogs are under, and might have even missed the fact that one of the worst deficiencies of the Dem Congress is not keeping a key promise that could have innoculated them for us.
The Blue Dogs live in redneck areas where AM talk radio is the public information square. On every major talk station there is 100% far right disinformation 24/7 with no chance of a response. The Annenberg School of Communication study showed that most of the 50 million listeners who are duped into utter "False Certainty" on every issue live in these areas. They not only get the far right position drilled into them with no balance, there is a complete blackout of any opposing views and hence any Dem attempts to frame an issue are absent.
So if a Blue Dog was to vote to hold the telecoms accountable, it woudl immediately be framed on their local talk radio stations as capitulation to the terrorists. All day and all night on every station, the frame would be that Congressman Carney is supporting the terrorists by not allowing our intel to spy on terrorist phone calls. No one would even mention that this could be used to spy on political opponents to Bush, in fact the substantial evidence that this has already happened has never even been mentioned to these listeners.
The Dem Congress had one window of opportunity to remedy this, and I believe that they knew this as Reid, Pelosi, Feinstein, Kucinich and others promised on Air America that there would be hearings to pressure ownership to bring balance back to our AM airwaves. It wouldn't even require a "Fairness Doctrine" since the pressure alone would cause ownership to reconsider operating a far right disinformation operation. Yet what little discussion of this occurred immediately was subsumed into the red=herring issue "Fairness Doctrine." No hearings were held in which ownership was called. Kathleen Hall Jameson has still never been called to testify about the 15 years Annenberg research, in fact it is only taught in most Universities outside the country that a Goebbels-like disinformation project was used by rightist tricksters to takeover the U.S., is absent any pushback will continue to frame every issue, dupe a critical mass of voters, and lead to an ugly end to the America as we know it.
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this is why no matter who the president is...
...come next year, the problem will still be in congress. because the permanent government is a subdivision of corporate america.
indeed, i'm not sure how effective a progressive president can or will be in the face of lukewarm support and outright opposition.
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Practical Politicians
The Dems have caved on this issue because they realize that pushing it only adds to the (accurate) perception that they are weak on national security. The overwhelming majority of the people in this country see no value in launching a futile lawsuit against telcos, are not terrorists or sympathizers and have no fear of their privacy rights being tread upon in the name of national security, and therefore tend to come out in favor of the Bushies on this issue. Hoyer and his litter recognize this and have backed off in time for the election--a prudent political decision.
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one more thank you
creepy. I was just thinking yesterday that it was eerily quiet on the PAA front. It didn't make sense that everybody just forgot about their fight so abruptly.
Clearly, the evil empire is still hard at work.
Thanks for the great work, Glenn.
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KEEP IT UP, GLENN!
Glenn, I read the article that was published on Carney yesterday or the day before, and am glad that you have devoted your article today to the slight-of-hand attempts to backdoor approve retroactive immunity. This is the single most important issue before Congress. Someday, folks are going to realize that the Bush Administration is the most lawbreaking administration ever, and wish that they had a Congress with a spine. I also donated a few bucks to the cause, thanks to the convenient link to Act Blue in your article. Keep it up!!!
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Act Blue
Thanks for the reminder, Glenn. I sent a big chunk of my "stimulus" rebate, received today, to the cause. That ought to stimulate ...something, anyway.
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The same could be said for voting against Hoyer
The Democrats have a large margin in the House. It's going to get larger this year. The benefit of a campaign of this sort and the message it sends (and the potential to change behavior) vastly outweighs the risk that it will end up defeating a single bad Democratic House member and replacing him with one bad Republican. - GG
It is very likely that the Democrats will have a "real" majority in the Senate, too, after November. And even if a Republican were to replace Hoyer, he or she would not have the same seniority, and some new leadership would then be in order.
Sometimes a symbolic head on a pike can be very effective.
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Typo Concern Trolls
What a glorious feeling it must be to find the first missplelling and post about it. I wish I had nothing else to do but wait for Glen's daily post and pounce on the typos. But, alas, I have other nits to pick. Thanks for holding up my end;)
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About those blue dogs...
from The Hill article:
Harman acknowledged, however, that there is a split in the Blue Dog Coalition and that some members support a Senate-crafted overhaul of FISA while she and others say it gives “blank check” immunity to telecommunications companies that turned over customer data to intelligence authorities. [emphasis added]
So, apparently, they're not a rock-solid block. However, 21 of them are already on record as supporting the Senate bill, and they will be the primary targets of Republicans re: signing the petition that will allow it all to move forward on simple majorities. (Too bad our team didn't try to use that tactic when they were in the minority...)
For some reason, Nancy Pelosi is letting Steny Hoyer take the lead on this one...