What this really shows though is the focus of efforts should not be electing a President but enough Congress critters to override a veto. My own take is that all monies I might have contributed to Obama -since he has a fine legal background and could only comment that he supported the bill but was opposed to immunity BUT said ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the sham of judicial review in the bill- will go to defeating Pelosi(Cindy Sheehan is running as independent), Hoyer, Emmanuel, Reyes, and Harmon(who voted against her constituents who were overwhelmingly against the immunity).

People, if you haven’t been turned off by Obama’s speech to AIPAC, his flipflop on NAFTA as reported by Forbes, and now this(with the oft used ‘fearmongering’ rationale), I don’t know what you are thinking when he supposedly stands for ‘change’; ‘change’ will occur simply because of the election.

I watched the speakers on this bill on CSPAN and it was obvious that they forgot (or ignored) the aspect of their oath that they are to protect the Constitution from ‘domestic enemies’; They seem to be forgetting that the Bush Administration HAS acted in a manner that presented a danger to the Constitution.

The real ‘terrorist threat’ to the U.S. is -from The American Conservative Magazine- “The holders of great wealth, especially if they are organized into a political lobby of similar holders of great wealth, can buy not only more goods, more capital, and more people. They can also buy (through the vehicle of campaign contributions) more important people: politicians and other public officials and therefore public policies.”

PS – my continuing refrain is to suggest that we each write the DCCC & DSCC. We’ve shown our fund-raising muscle, and if we point that out to them, it should strike a chord.

As for the folks above who’ve pointed out that their particular Congress-critter voted for this bill, and they fear a challenger couldn’t make it in your district: point out that this is a tide coming, and your ”fool,” even though he/she may have escaped this time, might feel the effect in the next election or Congress. [Bad members can be put on bad committees — if, of course, there’s decent leadership.]

Incidentally, Jonathan Turley said ”it’s not over,” and that the important thing right now is to let Congress know that there are a LOT of folks out there paying attention, and that Congress can’t just sneak these things through without a firestorm.

So activate that old ”dear friends” e-mail list and get everyone you know to write to everyone on the Hill that you can think of. I’d suggest starting with Chris VanHollen [DCCC chair], Chuck Schumer {DSCC chair], Naughty Nancy, Steny the Snake, and the Obama campaign.

a lot of people don’t see it yet – many actually think this was election year anxiety about terra terra terra (yeah at 24% JAR)

helluva day, so many painfully unamerican aspects to the events –

thank you again for your work