The longer Dodd stays in the race, the longer these issues will be discussed. Once he’s gone, we won’t hear about this for the rest of the election cycle.

Please consider donating even a small amount (chrisdodd.com) to keep him going. As Blue America has demonstrated, the little amounts add up.

(P.S. I am not an employee or volunteer for the Dodd campaign).

It’s for Bush and Cheney!

Mark Klein is not alone. There are many other technicians with knowledge and evidence just like Mark.

They are waiting for the “cover up vote” before they expose the extensive corruption. Then it will be too late for congress.

Watch this vote closely, for those that vote for immunity are voting for the cover up.

Don’t be fooled, everyone voting knows full well what they are doing.

After your support for Mukasey and your disingenuous attempt at defending such, I don’t even know why I bother. Still, allowing retroactive immunity for telecom companies and allowing nonindividualized (ie, “basket”) eavesdropping warrants would be spectacular blows to civil liberties and Constitutional protections.

So surprise me. Refuse to vote a bill out of SJC that contains these noxious provisions. After which, if necessary, support Chris Dodd’s block and/or filibuster.

Help convince me that my ostensibly Democratic senior senator is not really a closeted member of the Connecticut for Lieberman party.

The Senators aren’t there to do our bidding and their staffers know it.

His Senate office said they didn’t know what I was talking about and transferred the call to his Judiciary Committee staff.

The Judiciary Committee staffer first treated me as if I was some sort of scammer calling, but once I identified myself by name, home state, and county and called myself a constituent a couple of times, he finally agreed to answer whatever my question was. Except, apparently a question about retroactive immunity. Once I asked for the senator’s position, the guy tried to say my cell was going in and out (um, wasn’t mine, dude, I had 4 bars showing) and then said the senator hadn’t discussed this legislation with his staff and so they couldn’t give me his position. I then voiced my opposition and, for good measure, mentioned that I was a Democrat who has voted for Spector since he first won the office. And that I wouldn’t be voting for him again if he voted to give them retroactive immunity.

I did, though, get the feeling my friend Nick the JC staffer really didn’t give a shit.

As I watched the tongue lashing that Yahoo execs received yesterday, I wondered if the U.S. government would ever treat the tel-com execs the same way. Obviously not. That got me to wondering about the similarities between how, when and why China exercises its governmental power and how, when and why the Bush administration exercises its unitary executive power. One thing both governments have in common is a determination to protect.

I have to get back to work.

Peterr @ 31

I was an exchange student in Germany when John Wayne died. They replaced a lot of the scheduled TV shows with old John Wayne Cowboy-and-Indian movies, dubbed into German.

It was very odd to listen to John Wayne on his horse riding across the west speaking German, to say nothing of listening to the Indians gathered around their campfires doing the same.

I had the exact same experience with John Wayne movies when I was living in France.

John Wayne sauntering into a saloon and telling the bartender: “Un whiskey, s’il vous plait.”

or he says to the bartender “On couche ensemble (ce soir)?”.
I only know the important words taught to me by my buddy Jackie, a cordon bleu chef now a desciple of Satya Sai Baba.

Way OT sorry

I spoke to Di Fi’s office and was told that the Senator is considering introducing an amendment that will in effect transfer liability to the government and will cap lawsuits at $30,000,000,000. Well, another piece of redundant legislation as far as the first point. The telecoms can file a cross-complaint against the US government for indemnification anyway.

Feinstein would be great if her defense of ordinary Americans was anything like her defense of American corporations.