Blue America makes me happy.

Good stuff, Jane.

Here in VA, might I suggest Tom Perriello, Judy Feder, and Andrea Miller. Obv., Blue America has endorsed Tom, but he put out one of the strongest statements on FISA you’re ever to likely see. Feder is pretty flush with cash, but VA-10 is still tough, and she is pure as the driven snow. Miller is a longshot in VA-04, but is a principled progressive and the cash might do her the most good if the wave really rises.

Just my $.02, as a stockholder :)

Keep up the great work. Love you guys.

Chris Dodd for President!

A proven leader who actually LEADS!

(well, I voted for him anyway)

I’m so happy to see Andrew Rice recognized for his principled stand on FISA. We are going to do our best here in Tulsa to remove the dinosaur with his head buried in the tar sands Inhofe and send Andrew Rice to the US Senate! You go, Andrew!!!

Carol Shea Porter is my wonderful congressperson. Thank you for sending her needed bucks. She is coming under attack from well heeled and politically connected goopers. She has worked very hard for her constituents, she responds quickly and has a very personable staff. Must keep the “good” politicians in office so that we may stop the takeover.

Most excellent article from Susan Bankston down Texas-way.

http://www.kissmybigbluebutt.com/#july8lampson

..

I’m so glad to find another Susan fan here. She makes me laugh out loud. ;)
Happy to meet you, basilbeast.

I’m very happy to see my soon-to-be Texas Democratic Senator on the A-List. Thank you, Blue Ameriica for sending him some love!

Statement of Rep. Rick Noriega on FISA Vote

I never got to vote for my man Dodd. I am proud that he was my first choice. Think I’ll go throw him a few bones as well.

Yup, bowing to Mr 23% will surely immunize Out-of-Touch Democrats from charges they are soft on terror.

Way to look strong, National Democrats! Way to look tough! Way to look Out of Touch!

I am proud that Blue America works so hard to support the candidates that work for US – candidates who FLIP their proverbial fingers at the “Cocktail-Weenie Crowd” that makes up “The Beltway Pundits and Consultants Clique” and are apparently infiltrated by coporations and their well-financed lobbyists.

“more and better democrats” means BETTER DEMOCRATS than some of the ones we have now – and BA’s support of Regina Thomas in GA-12 is one of the best examples of that I’ve seen in a long, long time.

If you appreciate the work Blue America is doing on your behalf, go help Howie on HuffPost - he needs more diggs! (and so does jane, see up top)

Howie – judging by the past year’s FISA actions alone, Tom Udall makes my list of 31 good representatives but Allen and Shea-Porter do not. how did you come up with these names?

So glad Jon Tester is on the list. He does not represent me but I am very impressed with him and his big smile. I also sent some $$ to Progressive Patriots this morning. I think it is great that Blue America is doing this. Keep up the good work for us.

oops. my apologies – i should have addressed my question to jane.

Why, Margot, obviously you’re a person of great character and intelligence!

:)

Susan B. reminds me so much of that other great Texas patriot and writer, Molly Ivins.

I would love to see what Molly would have written about our boy Obama and his fellow Democratic senators!

But Susan does fine too.

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A reporter, Jack Torry, of the Columbus Dispatch, is doing everything he can to ridicule Kucinich on CSPAN 1 and play down the impeachment articles. He is saying Kucinich is doing this for money from bloggers….

feingold and he were mt choices for president and how sad am i that neither are the candidate of the dems :o(

Howie answers your question at his huffpo piece, here.

What a crock.

If DK were selling out, the corporatists pay a lot better than we do.

Yes as opposed to money from telecoms. Last I checked Americans could give money to whomever they wanted provided they followed election laws about the giving…unless your John McCain that is.

We may expand the donations, and all of those are good suggestions.

Good on FISA.

no, actually it doesn’t. so they made nice statements. i can point to statements by representatives like rush holt that were far, far better – and more importantly he backed his word up with actions. even challenging the house leadership. i don’t see where Allen or Shea-Porter did that. of course, that doesn’t mean they didn’t – just that i didn’t see it.

what Allen and Shea-Porter have in common is that they are running for senate seats. now, i am not objecting to supporting either one of them – but not because they were the best in the House on FISA. i just don’t think they were.

would love to be corrected though…

Bravo.

But why not Donna Edwards, or Paul Hodes?
For that matter why not *all* of the freshman or seriously contested
Congresspeople who voted agains HR6304?
Better that than giving money to Katherine Graham’s trustfund baby.

Jane this idea is Brilliant I expect the GOP to start complaining about it immediately its so good.

but Jane,

seriously… if the issue is FISA, shouldn’t Rush Holt be at the top of the list of representatives? and as far as i can tell there are 30 more representatives in addition to Holt who were better than Allen and Shea-Porter.

i did ask this question – what is the criteria? – when the topic was brought up in a post before but there was no answer.

a bunch of us here in the comments went through an analysis to come up with a list of representatives (there are 31 on it). it was posted several times and edited based on comments/suggestions and corrections. i will go try to find a link to the most recent posting of it.

My connection timed out three times on Digg whats up?

I’m using FireFox is anyone else having these problems with Digg?

Not Jane, but wrt to Shea-Porter — she and Steve Kagan in Wisconsin are the two most progressive freshmen of the bunch probably, and also the only two progressives from the ‘06 wave in any danger. Carol is definitely on our side, so I agree with that donation. Donations to Dodd and Feingold are way more symbolic, whereas Carol actually needs the cash to ensure re-election in a trending blue but still purplish seat.

[BTW, she isn’t running for the Senate.]

I think all 12 they picked are spot on.

BTW, does anybody know Obama’s recipe for Kool Aid?

I appreciate Firedoglake continuing to push this issue and am amazed at how the pro-Obama sites went all but silent after their candidate sided with the lawbreakers.
Kudos

I’m so disappointed in Senator Obama. I sent an email to his campaign saying so, and stating that I would be donating to true progressive Democrats in the future, and not to his campaign due to his FISA vote….

Mark Penn as bartender?

Columbus Dispatch is very biased. If Kucinich actually were selling out they’d respect him. Doing something for the principle of it, that’s hinky. They don’t like that.

sorry my mistake re the senate.

i’m not suggesting there is anyone better than Shea-Porter over all – i just haven’t done that analysis. what i am saying though is that IF this list is based on FISA, then i think there is a problem.

Cool! so have I:) A bunch of us have said the same thing here at the Lake I wonder how the other blogs are on this issue?

I would like to give a shout out to my Senator, Tom Harkin. He has voted against all of the bad FISA legislation as well. Good on You Senator Harkin. Thanks for standing up for the Constitution. I will be very supportive in your re-election efforts.

Sadly, Obama managed to cave on FISA without punching-bag Penn being anywhere nearby. Nope, it’s all on Barack.

Who are the pro Obama sites? I thought that we were one until recently.

I think it’s the combo — FISA, plus she’s a staunch progressive and great on rule-of-law stuff from a district where the CW sez you have to tack to the middle (e.g., surrender to Republicans) to win.

We need to make sure future Shea-Porters see there is a constituency for honesty and integrity on these issues.

Then either Obama has always been a Mark Penn Center Dem, or Obama has had someone else fix him some Cool Aid.

I think it’s the combo

that’s not what the post says. i’m just going by what jane wrote.

Does anyone know when the next reporting date for contributions is? I am looking forward to seeing Obama’s.

I just look at it as him being too cute by half. He out-thought himself, prob with the help of some establishment aides and consultants.

I actually don’t doubt at all that he’s a naturally progressive or liberal guy — I mean, his record in the Illinois Senate was working on death penalty reforms and helping out inner city constituencies.

I just think he thinks it’s easier to ’split the baby’ to appease the Versailles media. He’s wrong, but so it goes.

I contributed to Dodd after his filibuster of FISA last November, which bought us another half-year of Fourth Amendment. I was criticized by people who said “We shouldn’t have to pay Congresspeople to do their jobs.” That strikes me as naive: nowadays all Congresspeople are bought, we need to buy them back.

You’re right. But I think that’s what explains Carol’s inclusion.

i donated to dodd also – twice. wish it could have been more.

Good picks all. Especially like seeing our local candidate Andrew Rice included.

Andrew’s going to need all the help he can get, Inhofe has a lot of money and is already running TV ads.

So am I what better way to see if we have an impact.

I donated twice also. Once online and once in person at a rally in Des Moines. I thanked him for his stance on FISA and he said, “you do not have to thank me, it is very simple, I took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. He was amazed at how many of his colleagues failed to grasp the concept.

I called yesterday and asked for my Obama contributions back. I will give them to Dodd, Harkin and other progressives.

Another reason not to send my money to Blue America.
Senator Obama could be helped by these contributions.
He has one hell of a tough fight ahead of him!

He does, indeed, but he could have made it much easier if he had stood up for the Constitution.

From the ACLU blog [with video]

So now that we’ve actually filed the lawsuit (our uber-paralegal is on his way back to the office from the courthouse right now), here’re the details on our lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the just-signed-into-law FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (FAA):

1. The defendants in our lawsuits (e.g. the people we’re suing) are John (Mike) McConnell, Director of National Intelligence; Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, Director of the NSA and Chief of the Central Security Service; and Michael Mukasey, Attorney General.

2. We’ve filed the case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

3. Our superstar roster of plaintiffs (e.g. the people and groups we’re suing on behalf of) include The Nation magazine, journalists Naomi Wolf and Chris Hedges, attorneys David Nevin, Scott McKay, Dan Arshack and Sylvia Royce, and a whole bunch of orgs that run the gamut from Amnesty International to the Global Fund for Women. (You can check out the full list of our plaintiffs online at http://www.aclu.org/faa.)

4. Three of our main points:

* The FAA violates the Fourth Amendment because it allows the government to gobble up the constitutionally protected communications of American citizens and residents without getting individualized warrants, and without specifying the time, place or length of the surveillance, and not specifying how the info gathered will be disseminated, or how long it’ll be kept. (You know, the who/what/where/when/why.)

* The FAA also violates the First Amendment by chilling lawful expressive speech without adequate justification by authorizing the government to intercept constitutionally protected communications without judicial oversight.

* The challenged law violates the principle of separation of powers by allowing the government to continue surveillance activities even if the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has deemed those activities illegal. (Good idea, right? Asking the government to obey the law?)

P.S. anyone in NoCal or the Sacramento area wanna talk about civil liberties issues like FISA, or anything else?

We have a meetup tonight

Click here for info

Shea-Porter is also targetted for defeat by the corporatist GOP, and her progressive stands may yield little assist from the DCCC, which ignored her last time.

Blue America is trying to elect the kind of better Dems that can force Obama to be what so many once perceived him to be.

Does whether or not an incumbent is up for re-election this year factor in when Blue America chooses recipients?

- Tom

Guess she didn’t meet Rahm’s qualifications. Can we get rid of him?

(((FDL)))

(((ACLU)))

I just wanted to publicly thank my senators, Levin and Stabenow, for listening to us and voting against FISA.

Kucinich up with an Article of Impeachment.

Donna Edwards in The Big Chair(?)

I don’t but you can ask the person who wrote this dkos diary.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/…..877/549338

I haven’t been able to Digg any new posts since like 10am this morning. It’s been having problems off and on the past few days.

i gave to dodd and kucinich in the last weeks……..my guys…….kucinich has been proppin’ their asses up and takin’ care of ours for a while now, don’t forget him when you’re showin’ the ’love’……..

i’ve said before, kucinich’s office staff are the best anywhere….love them. they love their jobs.

well, if that’s the case i wish it stated that way. then i wouldn’t be challenging the criteria. because i don’t think “good on fisa” is something easy to see. we can’t rely on just on the h.r.6304 vote. like most of what the house has done in the 110th congress, the vote was gamed. an elaborate kabuki choreographed to confuse.

but we do know of two times this past year that progressive representatives stood up to their own leadership in the house – and won. the first was on oct 17 when the first very flawed version of the leadership’s restore act was blocked until it was modified to the satisfaction of rush holt and some progressives who backed him up. and the second time was when s.2248 was derailed in the house by blocking the 21 day paa extension.

i and others keep mentioning these two key events in the comments – and while i’ve never seen a challenge to this analysis, i’ve never seen an acknowledgment of it either.

jane – you and howie follow these things closely – what do you think about these two critical events?

p.s. i don’t want to repost the entire list and analysis in this thread, but here is a link to one of the several fdl threads where it was discussed (it was also cross posted at marcy’s and glenn’s).

i’ll stop now – but i do think it is a very big shame that there are a group of representatives who have been doing the work of angels in the house this past year and they have done it all without support or even barely any recognition in the blogosphere. and i have that wrong, i wish someone would correct me and set me straight.

I stopped reading DailyKos when everyone there was drinking the Hillary KoolAid.
The schools really need to teach analytical thought again. Even just promoting original thought would be a wonderful thing. Maybe we’d have a population without any KooldAid stain on their lips.

Shea-Porter is also targetted for defeat by the corporatist GOP, and her progressive stands may yield little assist from the DCCC, which ignored her last time.

Desiccated Corporate Clown Coprolites

Dinosaur dung – what a perfect thought.

Not by any stretch a decision maker for Blue America but the answer to your question is no.

Tester was just elected to the Senate in ‘06. Dodd and Feingold’s current Senate terms run through ‘10 although Dodd has campaign debt this year from his Presidential run. Tom Allen and Tom Udall are giving up House Seats to run for the Senate.

Andrew Rice and Rick Noriega are running for the Senate against well financed rethugs.

Carol Shea-Porter is running for re-election to the House (all House seats are up for election)

Doug Tudor, Dennis Shulman, Jim Hines, and Darcy Burner are all running against incumbent House rethugs.

fran at 51–a fight ahead of him? no, he had a few fights and he didn’t stand for anything i believe in-if he would stand up and represent something i believe in, then he would get my money……why should i contribute to him if he isn’t doing that?

puttin’ my money where my mouth is, putting my money into the pockets of people who mouth what i believe.

anyone who does otherwise might as well pitch the money out the window ridin’ down the highway.

If you noticed, Tester switched from last time. He voted wrong last time, but right now. I guess some of his constituents reminded him of his Patriot Act comments during the ‘06 debate. Glad he saw the light regardless.

I wish I could quit reading these awful posts but I feel a need to offer a different opinion. If you don’t challenge them then the kool-aid becomes more appealing to others who are posting on that site.

I agree about the February vote — but I will say that not every one of those 30 is a hero. Many were just regular Blue Dogs voting the wrong way for cover (Altmire, Boswell, Boren, Davis, probably Walz) — and then the liberals swooped in to win the day by defeating their own leadership. My Rep, Jim Moran, was one of those you listed in that thread, and I thanked him for his vote.

I agree about Rush Holt, and think John Hall also deserves high praise for his vote on that b/c he is a freshman from a relatively competitive district. And Tom Udall got included at least.

I think you are right to ask about the criteria — transparency is key.

Uh, is there more than one Kos web site? I think it would come a s a great surprise to many Kos readers and commenters AND to many Hillary supporters that they “drank the Hillary kool-aid”

As always YMMV

Rove gets the gift of five more days in which to show up from Conyers and Sanchez:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._0710.html

geez, these people are *tough*. /s

selise–i’m thinkin’ of that list you had of those that voted no on paa in feb and no on fisa last week and then add again this week’s vote………figure it’s the same names this week……..was a short list.

I’m afraid if you force him to follow what better dems want,
he is not what you perceived and it’s time to move on.
Personally I think he has demonstrated enormous courage
so far in this campaign but he will not get elected without
much support. I hope your going to be happy with John McCain~

You are correct. dkos was not a Hillary friendly site. The Huffington Post was not either.

and wasn’t tester the one who revdeb is so mad at? am i remembering it wrong?

Second call in two days from Obama campaign, this time the local. I tell them all, “he should have been there to protect the Constitution, he wasn’t, so I am not there for him until he quits selling women and the Constitution down the river.”

“We respect your decision.” That is the kool-aid line form them. “We’ll see what we can do.”

the analysis only included the 21 day paa extension vote in feb, it wasn’t the only criteria. they also had to vote no on h.r.6304. it was all explained in a few of the threads (i know that doesn’t mean that everyone saw it – but it was referred and linked to in at least one recent thread of jane’s).

Since he was no where near my first choice and was in fact my fifth or sixth choice of the original list of those running, I have no high expectations for the man.

I think so far he has done many things but leading has not been too high on the list of accomplishments.

He is an improvement over McCain which is about all that I can really say about him at this point.

I believe it is Sestak that she has expressed her extreme disappointment in.

Right. Most of those are definitely the good guys. But I’d wager that at least Altmire, Boren, Boswell, and Davis voted against the 21-day PAA extension in Feb b/c, if it failed, it would put pressure on the Dem leadership to simply bring up the Senate bill from December. At least that’s how I remember it. It was one of the few cases where a House vote wasn’t pre-determined — the liberals came in and voted unexpectedly, defeating the bill and throwing a monkeywrench in the works. At least that’s how I remember it.

But, your overall analysis I think is important and good work.

I should look again, then, because it seemed that everything I was seeing at Kos early in the primary was pro-Hillary.

The purpose IMO is to make Obama recognize his base, and push the agenda beck toward the center, and hopefully even a little further. Giving Obama a pass on things like FISA does not do this. The agenda is a big rock, and we will not roll it without pushing-hard.

People really don’t ask much of their politicians. They just want them to do what they have said they will do. It’s pretty simple, really and Obama didn’t. I will vote for him but he let me down, let us all down.

pmorlan, let me congratulate you for a wonderfully eloquent comment on that Kos thread yesterday.

thanks dakine, yes, it was sestak not tester, i’m not too familiar with them….sorry all, usually don’t post if i don’t know for sure…..mind in a blur last few days……

and your comment at 80-=–yep…..except i don’t know about the ’done many things’, i can’t name them. except for just ’being there’….

ron1 – none of those reps are on my list. here is a bit from the explanation:

First, we have the vote on H.R.6304. However, since this was in large measure a sham vote, we can not directly tell which of the “NO” votes really represents opposition to the bill. For that we need to look at events earlier in the year.

Twice this past year some members of the progressive caucus (and others like Rush Holt) challenged their own party’s leadership to kill a bad FISA bill. The first time this happened was on October 17, 2007 when, among other things, progressives including Rush Holt refused to back the leadership’s bill, forcing the bill to be withdrawn and improved (compare these two YouTubes of Rush Holt speaking from the House Floor on October 17, 2007 and on November 15, 2007. Unfortunately, since the bill was withdrawn before a vote was taken, we don’t know exactly who opposed it – this time.

The second time however, there was a vote. On February 13, 2008 the House leadership attempted a second extension of the PAA, this time for 21 days. It was defeated when progressives and others like Rush Holt (YouTube) joined with the Republicans (and some Blue Dogs) to vote against it. The difficulty with this vote is that we don’t know which Democrats voted against the extension because they joined with Republicans to play games and which Democrats genuinely opposed it. The defeat of this PAA extension derailed the Senate’s SSCI bill because once the PAA expired and nothing horrible happened it removed the urgency from the rush to pass a bill that included immunity for the telcos.

Below is the list of all Democrats who didn’t vote for the PAA extension in February (either by voting “NO” or by not voting) AND who voted “NO” on H.R.6304. Donna Edwards and Jackie Speier are also included because they weren’t in congress in February and Donna Edwards in particular campaigned against bad FISA legislation. Membership in the Blue Dog coalition (BD) and the Progressive Caucus (P) is included by request.

ron1, dmac and anyone else who is interested. i have a draft for a dkos diary that includes this (and a bunch of other stuff). it’s really still way too long, but i’ll try to get it up tonight or tomorrow morning sometime and then you can tear it apart – or whatever.

I am happy to see Tom Udall getting a yes vote from Blue. He has showed courage all the way and has to run in conservative areas of NM where these votes are harder to defend than in his home town.

Yet, he did the right thing. I will work hard for Tom.

I am hoping the BO campaign will get a loud and clear message from all of us who are door knockers and have donated IN THE PAST.

He is gonna hear it from me until I see some kind of change I can believe in.

What Twain said.

Looking forward to it actually. Sorry if we’re arguing in circles — I did skim the old FDL link you posted, but I missed have been fixated on the wrong list of House members.

I think it’s important to highlight all the good guys in this whole sordid affair, so please post the link when your diary is up.

I’d like to extend a big Eff You to Shumer and Feinstein for shoving that pus-bag Mukasey down our throats.

-G

ok will do. some of the old lists did contain mistakes (all mine) which other commenters corrected – you may have been one of them, if so my apologies for the lack of proper attribution. it really was a group effort.

Let us know when you post it and give us a link to it so we can go recommend it.

Dkos, Americablog, Huffington, and TalkingPointmemo to a somehwhat lesser degree, but about in that order were rabid to unabashedly pro-Obama. They lost all sense of objectivity. Now they look a little foolish. FISA, what FISA??? It is amazing to watch the political immaturity of those sites. Hope, Change, Audacity, New Politics, they bought it all. The fall from that perch is a mighty fall.

When I was looking during the Primaries the Clinton supporters were complaining that they were being run off the site by the Obama supporters. The same thing happened on Huffington Post. Perhaps early on the board favored Clinton – I don’t know about that because I wasn’t looking at that time.

Sorry you are having trouble. Sometimes Digg acts up in Firefox for me. Safari usually is the more stable (ONLY FOR DIGG) when I am digging.

OT, but interesting to some here:

House Judiciary May Hold Hearings On Kucinich Impeachment Resolution

selise at 88–thanks, yep, i believe in the credit where credit is due, for whom it is due, good and bad.

and fran, obama said he would fight telco immunity re: fisa, and he didn’t…i believe the word ’strongly’ was used…that’s a fact. he didn’t do anything. what else is that except what it is? a lie. why is it a lie? because he never addressed it, he just ’cut his sails for a better wind, said he was goin to jamaica and last thing we knew he went to france’. he knew a lot of people were looking to him to keep his word, avoided commenting on it then changed his stance then weaseled an excuse around no explanation of why. if it’s something other than that, expain that to me.

i have no reason to believe he would keep his word on anything else he has said, after all, he’s the same guy that made promises to pro-choice groups and waffled on his ’present’ votes…..and others…..

and to beat it all, this is his area of expertise–the constitution, so, if this is his interpretation, i don’t think i’ll like the other parts he plans on addressing either.

Just got a call from the DNC asking for money- I told em that because of the FISA performance they can pound sand. Hope they hear it a lot.

selise-your 88-my 99-i meant good and bad credit for the reps and sens, not us and you…….lol…….

gotta go, go pups!

The FISA amendments legislation certainly protects the backsides of the telcos that conducted illegal surveillance in exchange for favored treatment: allowing them to make billions by readily approving their mega-mergers and by awarding them large government contracts. It also protects the ample backsides of the administration stalwarts who demanded the fruits of that illegal surveillance.

More importantly, it preserves, institutionalizes and enriches the secretive private companies that enable the Surveillance State: The computer, software and data storage, analysis and processing providers that complement the privatized warrior industry (epitomized by Blackwater), and which together comprise the new “Services” leg of the venerable Military-Industrial-Congressional-[and now] Services complex.

Perhaps that’s what elicited so much support for this legislation from so many Democrats.

Dick Cheney and George Bush warn us to be afraid of everything – except them. But they and the modern Democratic Party have now bequeathed us something worth fearing: privatized warrior and intelligence services industries that act without oversight; that exist on massive, secret, taxpayer-funded contracts; and which have made it hard for government as we know it to run without them.

if anybody sees ctuttle, tell him to check his flickr mail, thanks.

bbl

Hillary out with a lengthy release on why she voted against FISA…I now wish that she were the nominee.

FWIW, although she voted the correct way, she didn’t exactly get out front with Dodd and Feingold on this. Had she done so, she might even have pressured Obama to vote the right way.

Don’t get me wrong — she is 100% correct on the merits, and he is wrong. She deserves credit for her stance now, and he should be scorned for backtracking on an earlier promise.

But let’s not get too carried away. Her final decision was right, but she could have led on this issue. She didn’t.

She voted properly, he did not. End of story.

Well I feel your disappointment but it’s my belief
that this is not just a one issue campaign.

You are correct that it is not a one issue campaign.

But when the one issue in question is the Constitution of the United States, which he swore an oath to uphold and is a topic on which he is supposed to have been an instructor, then that one issue looms quite large in the decision process for many of us.

He had an opportunity to show himself a leader. He failed that opportunity. Badly.

That was why I voted for him in the VA primary in Feb — but Iraq was my demarcation point.

FISA is right below that for me in importance, but they’re pretty close. If you feel bamboozled on that issue and voted for him as a result, then I understand your anger.

Your succinct statement is of course correct. I will not defend his vote. And if that’s your #1 issue, then I can’t argue with your wish to have her be the nominee. I’m angry at his capitulation, but don’t have buyer’s remorse, just b/c I think the difference on Iraq is more important.

OH, I thought the issue was “change.”

Obama would have been a hero to millions of people. I believe the day will come when he regrets this vote – not because of the election, which he most likely will win, but because he is going to have to explain to his 2 daughters why he voted the way he did. They might not be very thrilled with “I did it for political reasons.”

Digg acts up in IE for me. I think it has to do with FDL and I can Digg some from Glennzilla and C & L.

I am so glad Doug Tudor is finally getting some attention in the netroots world!!!

Doug Tudor is a true progressive who doesn’t have to worry about looking weak on national defense or security. He began serving his country and “standing the watch” roughly the same year his opponent, Congressman Adam Putnam, was first able to attend PG-13 movies without an adult. Doug is a progressive Democrat who served his country for 20 years in the US Navy while putting himself through school to earn undergraduate and law degrees. By contrast, the greatest accomplishment of Adam Putnam (the 37th wealthiest US Congressman) was having the good fortune to be born into a wealthy family of citrus growers.

Doug is a fantastic candidate, a great public speaker, and a progressive you can count on to do the right thing. Please, please, please contribute to Doug’s campaign at http://www.teamtudor.org/contribute.asp

spare some change?

swopa acouple of flights upstairs on McCain and economics/”Mental Recessions”

Rock On Blue America! Glad to see you honor these, these, Defiant Dozen.

I got a realy nice e-mail from Dodd. I’m glad i’m on the side of these eloquent, passionate and dedicated individuals.

I got the Dodd email too. He’s a class act.

Hi, RoyalOak! I used to live in Royal Oak, built a house there! Small world…

Digg this post

“What are you going to do, vote for McCain?” Obama taunts. Of course, he knows you aren’t going to.

Obama teaches Constitutional law. Yet, he does not have the courage or integrity to stand up for the Constitution. What more do you need to know? Obama stated that he would vote against and filibuster any law that contained telecom immunity. Yet, he cowered and caved. Even his ‘rationalizations” were unintelligible and full of misinformation, leaving no doubt to anyone that when Bush said “BOO!”, he would run as fast as he could from his principles.

It is clear that Obama is going to continue to take positions that are diametrically opposed to the progressives who fuel his campaign in order to demonstrate to the Main Stream Media that he is a “Serious” person who is not beholden to the “radical, fringe left.” FISA is only the first of many betrayals to come, I am afraid.

Send your Obama dollars to http://www.ActBlue.com , http://www.EFF.org , http://www.aclu.org and support true progressives.

Jane and FDL… how grateful I am to weather the disappointment with a sense of empowerment and hope thanks to your spirit and organization!

We are not to be “finesseed-messed with” by BO or our congress! Truth to Power and … power to the People.