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Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:00 AM

George Bush's latest powers, courtesy of the Democratic Congress

Congress is going to decree that the president has the power to order private citizens to break the law, as well as to spy on our telephone calls and e-mails with no warrants.

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  • Thursday, June 19, 2008 09:48 AM

    Where's Dodd?

    I seem to recall Sen. Dodd saying he would do everything possible to keep telco immunity from passing. So where is he? Why isn't he filibustering? I donated money to his presidential campaign because he stood up last December and did just that, filibustered the bill and kept it from passing. I remember Glenn writing a column criticizing some beltway DC journalist, because she dismissed Dodd's actions as purely political. Well it seems she was right because I don't see Dodd doing jack shit on this. I always knew the dems would cave on this issue. They just postponed doing it til our attention was diverted else where. Tomorrow when it passes, McCain or Obama will do or say something, and that's all the news networks will report on. The sell out of our rights and constitution won't even get reported.

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