We may be getting back nothing but a depleted, ransacked, mortgaged treasury and an international reputation akin to some of the worst tyrants in history, but get back our Congress we will. We owe it to the authors of our Constitution, and to the cause of liberty. Just a small reminder, powers that be, that there are a lot more of us out here, than there are of you in Washington, D.C.

amen to that.

no matter how long it takes.

and history will not look kindly on those who fought against open government and a free society.

“Open, honest” government, my eye, Nancy Pelosi. Corporate servants is what these people holding our power in our Congress have reduced themselves to. They sell us out for pennies on OUR dollar. They are in service to the Rule of Corporate Profit – as is the Executive Branch – and will fiercely resist only those efforts that threaten the life of leisure they’ve constructed for themselves by putting political-faction loyalty before country. Just the way the Founders predicted such factions would harm the Republic. To these craven, self-serving individuals, our Constitution is but a distant memory, not worth a backward glance or the price of the parchment it’s written on.

Money. Privilege. Status. Power. Liberty be damned.

But not for much longer. Their race is run, whether they care to recognize it or not. We may be getting back nothing but a depleted, ransacked, mortgaged treasury and an international reputation akin to some of the worst tyrants in history, but get back our Congress we will. We owe it to the authors of our Constitution, and to the cause of liberty. Just a small reminder, powers that be, that there are a lot more of us out here, than there are of you in Washington, D.C.

Gaaaaah! I cannot even scream intelligibly about this anymore!!

hi ES.

sorta looking like what happened just before august recess wasn’t really about being rushed…. that was just a convenient excuse.

i wish someone would explain to me how i’m all wrong about this. :(

The FISA bill actually drafted by Members of Congress is the Rush Holt/John Tierney Intelligence Committee bill [H.R. 3782] which has been blocked from a hearing or a vote by the Democratic Committee Chairs apparently at the behest of the Speaker

don’t know if you’ll see this pow-wow, but wanted to let you know that i called the speaker’s office to ask them to confirm or deny if the holt/tierney bill was being blocked at the request of the speaker. after much round-and-round (you’ll have to ask hoyer’s office about that, you’ll have to leave a message on the voice mail, you’ll have to send an email to the generic address, …) i was finally told, “We can’t give you an answer to that question.” Not, “we don’t have an answer to give you.” I was not allowed to speak to anyone who might be willing to give me the answer to the question – in fact, i was never told that they didn’t have the answer – only that they couldn’t give it to me.

i’m pissed, pissed, pissed.

it’s bad enough that they do stuff we don’t like. but they should AT LEAST be willing to let us know what they are doing.

can someone please tell me why they think pelosi is a good speaker? i’ll make it easier – why would anyone think she’s an acceptable speaker? i don’t get it… we all agree that hoyer and emanuel suck – why not pelosi too?

I started reading Rich’s columns about three years ago and in terms of excoriating the Bush machine in a mainstream media outlet, I would give him 7-8 on a scale of 0 to 10. He is originally a theater critic. I think that positioned him to see what we have been facing: a media farce played out with real people dying offstage. Like Krugman he reads and links to Media Matters and other blogs.

I also read Frank Rich. He’s been consistently and vehemently outspoken against the Iraq fiasco and against the Bush/Cheney administration. He’s been waging the good fight for years. This column is off-target when it admonishes Frank Rich to “look in the mirror.” Save your blogo-rage for someone who has earned it.

Don’t worry about the media. After an 8 year hiatus they will be hankering to get back to rummaging through pantie drawers and 35 year old legal opinions and business and they’ll hold the Democratic President accountable for the mess they made in America after one week in office.

-GSD

Bingo.

Also perfect timing for not having any money to spend since the Republican sicko’s spent it all on bombs and billions of lost dollars that will have made it into Blackwater and HallyBerton pockets.