I also emaied Obama last night with a passionate beseech of 60's memoired resonance.

I think he's been extremely busy with 3 major other campaign and future plan tasks these last few days.

But, though it looks like the House is lost as a Fascist FISA obstacle, according to Reid, today, no senate votes will happen til Tuesday.

So, the prayer vigil and other bold efforts must continue past the weekend.

It would have been comforting had the House tabled this surrender into extended oblivion.

The Senate makes me nervous.

But Obama did state the issue correctly, reregister his opposition, and still has the weekend to find some maneuver to stave off the horror.

We must keep at it and fight to the wire without flinch or doubt til the deal is undone.

Some of these players may be too dumb to serve us well. But no vote has yet been cast.

Even overnight some intervention could still manifest in the House if some heavyweight punches were thrown.

The Revolution lives..

The lawsuits get dismissed without explanation (at least for a generation, or until someone sets Washington on fire).

The Bush Administration can and does continue its surveillance activities without let or unhindered, as does whoever takes the Oath of Office next year.

What's next? What's left?

"Of all the things I read today, the thing you just posted made me the sickest"

it is sickening. the level of hypocrisy is as great as anything i've seen anywhere.

but more than that - the rage, the feeling of betrayal - is hard to describe but i know shared by everyone here. all the time and effort put into canvassing and phone banking in 2006.... i regret it all, with the possible exception of the days i spent canvassing for the lamont campaign.

the only comfort i can find is in knowing that i am not alone, that there are many people as outraged as i am and that out of that outrage maybe some good action will come.

-"I think the White House got a better deal than even they had hoped to get," said Senator Christopher Bond, the Missouri Republican who led the negotiations. -

Yeah, I'd call that a nose-rubbing.

To add insult to injury, Jim Lehrer News Hour's Judy Woodruff included this event in her news itinerary tonight. I felt ill when she segued into an interview on this subject with none other than John Boner, unopposed by a divergent point of view from amongst his peers, of course, since there is scarcely one to be found anywhere.

Can there be any remaining doubt that the majority of the Democratic party is not on board with the New World Order fascist agenda?

Mike Malloy over at Nova M is covering this issue tonight and quoting from Glenn's posts extensively tonight.

For those of you who don't know Mike, I strongly recommend checking him out. He is online live, www.novamradio.com.

Glenn is great, but Mike likes to take these bastards out into the alley and slap them around. Logically of course.

Where the hell is Barack Obama on this? I am not impressed, not at all.

And did you see my comment on the last thread, tail end?

I think you have a new "fan".

Thanks for the tip. I'm really thrilled and honoured that someone who speaks glowingly of the "Master Race" finds my commentary annoying. I must be dong something right. And just provoking that kind of ... uhhh, ummmm, "honesty" ... in said person is reward enough. :-)

Cheers,

Should have read:

'Can there be any remaining doubt that the majority of the Democratic party is on board with the New World Order fascist agenda?'

Yes, I too feel that something is up for pre-election. I don't think McSame can win without it. Rumsfeld was right. It would be easier to win if 'something happened'.

Something is always about to happen according to the Bush Administration, but has it? In the years since 9/11, have we seen another terrorist attack on our soil? I'll eat my words if, heaven forbid, we suffer a 9/11-like attack before Nov. 4. But honestly, if a conspiracy ran that deep, I'd expect it to be in support of Bush declaring Martial Law and suspending elections. And that--again, I'll eat my words--isn't going to happen.

And you may want to check out School House Rock on the importance of Mr. Comma.

Along with the perfectly reasonable explanations for Obama kicking a baby in the face, that was the only thing that made me laugh today. I've called, written, given money, but... not much laughing. Thanks, Mr. or Ms. blase!

And thank YOU Glenn for all your work on this. Work which, as has become painfully obvious today, is just beginning.

Re: the BoR study. I'd heard of it, but I'm not sure I have the particulars at hand. IIRC, the results were that the BoR, so presented, wouldn't even gain majority support, much less what would be needed to enact it now (ignoring for simplicity the technical issues of 2/3 and 3/4 legislative majorities being feasible with legislators elected by simple plurality).

Cheers,

I submit that this FISA abomination is not a democratic "end run" around Articles 24 and 25 of the recently-filed Articles of Impeachment. This FISA abomination is, instead, only happening because Bush is rubbing the Democrats' faces directly in Nancy Pelosi's refusal to allow impeachment to be "on the table."

The FISA amendment going around today is specifically premised upon granting immunity to telecoms who were told by the Administration that it was legal to do the wiretapping without a warrant, and it is specifically and intentionally premised upon nobody having to demonstrate that this representation was in fact true. In other words, the liar's culpability is irrelevant for purposes of this new retroactive immunity, it is just not an issue. Only the lie-ee is entitled to immunity.

Today's FISA amendment does not legislatively "decree" that the President's representations were "true", nor could it because those representations included supposedly assuring that wiretapping without warrants violated neither a statute that said it is proscribed nor a Constitutional Amendment that proscribes it. It just is silent about that, decreeing only that those who the President assured won't be held liable.

Now, Articles 24 and 25 of Rep. Kucinich's recent submission would both address exactly this issue: did the President lie to these telecoms in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States in order to facilitate illegal wiretaps. The answer, of course, is undeniably yes. These are impeachable offenses, it isn't a question of "civil liability" in a lawsuit.

So why is this being done like this? There is only one reason: this is being done right, directly in Congress' face by a President who is so fK*ng confident that he is above the law and not subject to the Constituion's impeachment provisions that he just does not fK*ng care that his own actions are left out of the FISA revisions. And Pelosi et al know this, and they are too cowardly to do anything about it.

Would somebody ask Pelosi in tomorrow's abbreviated "debate" whether she will agree to schedule prompt hearings on at least Articles 24 and 25 of the Kucinich impeachment bill as a condition of allowing this FISA whitewash to proceed?