This makes me smokin’ mad.

Mui we have been enjoying your little chats. Got ‘em all right here. “Hugs and kisses”!!

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I FINALLY got through to Brent Woolfork on FLA Nelson’s staff just now:

Sen. Beel hasn’t announced a position on S.2453 yet because it’s still in Judiciary (BW: ” … and I’m watching that hearing right now”) and he’s on Commerce, but he IS very concerned about all this electronic-surveillance stuff, etc., etc., and when it comes to the Senate flo–

“Well, Brent, [sez I] I hope you’ll ask the Senator for me — FOR ALL OF US — to get with his colleagues on Judiciary and ask them to kill this thing before it ever reaches the Senate floor. [Launch into talking points via, “Don’t you suspect that, if Specter’d been in the Senate during Watergate, he’d have called for burglary to be legalized if Nixon had authorized it?” I ended up with something like] We’ve GOT to have Sen. Nelson stand up against the most out-Nixoning-Nixon, un-American stuff we’ve ever heard of!”

BW: “Uh-huhUh-huhUh-huhYesMa’amUh-huhYes’mUh-huh! I’ll certainly tell the Senator all about this. Thank you!” (But he couldn’t have been taking notes and doing all that Uh-huhing both.)

General impression on this end: put FLA Nelson down for “a leaning-our-way wiggler” and his office for “DEFINITELY paying full attention.”

Cites guy Levy, helped draft FISA. But can’t (me) follow exactly his point.

Iran joins the fray…ARRRRRRRGHHHHH!!!

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Surrounded by yellow Hezbollah flags, more than 60 Iranian volunteers set off Wednesday to join what they called a holy war against Israeli forces in Lebanon.

Linky: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/…..index.html

lotus – more, please??

‘Profiles in Cowardness.’ indeed.

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witness ties it in with NetNeutrality. Mebbe I had that in earlier thread after all.

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tech change does not authorise overriding privacy principles. Nice.

That is exactly what he is doing. Sec. 801 if left in the bill will plant the idea of the unitary executive in law. You just know that Bush’s four vote block will just jump at the chance. That means they only have to convince one justice to agree with it and then we’re all screwed.