Comments on: Oh, it’s on

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:35:05 +0000

Well, hot damn, Robert W., I’ll take one Ron Wyden over 20 Joe Bidens, please.

By: Robert Waldmann

Robert Waldmann — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:01:16 +0000

I mean this message http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCHIuAShX8A

entitled “Class War On”

By: Robert Waldmann

Robert Waldmann — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:57:47 +0000

I guess I’m missing a joke but I will take “Ron Wyden (who I have never heard of, but who appears to be a Senator)” seriously.

Ron Wyden is te awesome. Not because he proposed a universal health insurance bill (way better than Edward’s plan let alone Obama’s) but because he approved of this message

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:43:00 +0000

Here’s some anagrams for ol’ Steny:
teeny horsy
heresy tony
theory yens
sneer thy yo
thy nosy e’er
he nosey try
eeny shorty
snotyy here

I like “ho entry? yes” best

By: Nell

Nell — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:25:52 +0000

Hm. From Todd’s link:

in an unusual public reprimand of the secretive spy agency. Rep. Porter J. Goss,
chairman of the oversight panel, wrote in a committee report in May that NSA’s rationale for withholding the legal memoranda was “unpersuasive and dubious.” He noted that if NSA lawyers “construed the Agency’s authorities too permissively, then the privacy interests of the citizens of the United States could be at risk.”

But an NSA under a Republican administration couldn’t possibly put the privacy interests of the citizens of the United States at risk.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:45:53 +0000

This has been going on since the mid-90s.

http://epic.org/open_gov/foia/nsa_suit_12_99.html

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:39:10 +0000

I hope to be pleasantly surprised.

By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:31:55 +0000

OK, this is a knowingly , ultimately, ineffectual political show. They know how a bill becomes a law, I support their cause I just look at each member district by district, and state by state and via their records and financial connections and I can magically extrapolate the future. I’m a seer. If they were to be successful they would require the only thing more magical then enough cash on hand to retain your seat for life, public demand. Public demand does stem from education on the subject, and to that end I like this strategy as the big top pandering it is. I’m mostly skeptical because they’ve done this since December and still haven’t seen this register as something people will demand, because that’s the only way they will really get what they want. Much in the same way the Senate couldn’t impeach Clinton, there just wasn’t the votes. So if they know what I know, and they do, then they’re doing it for cynical political reasons and/or not just issue education.

By: Nell

Nell — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:25:18 +0000

Dodd: We can’t un-pass the Military Commissions Act. Um, yes you could. And in light of the Boumediene and Parhat decisions, you ought to. "Un-pass" has a perfectly good English equivalent: repeal. The rest, yes, they're irreversible. As would be retroactive immunity to the telecoms. As would be the horrific precedent it would set for legislative interference in the judicial process. It's worth fighting with everything we have to stop it.

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