A TRULY REPULSIVE SPECTACLE: CUNTS (in American AND British sense of the word)

Copying this from Daily Kos:

Senate Gives in on Wiretapping. 16 Dems Go Along.
by Meteor Blades
Fri Aug 03, 2007 at 10:00:24 PM PDT
The Senate has surrendered to Mister Bush on domestic spying, yielding ignominiously to the White House’s demands that the unitary executive be given more authority when it seeks to wiretap suspected terrorists without warrants. The vote was 60-28. If passed by the House, the bill would be law for six months. Meanwhile, Congress would use that time to put together a permanent one.
The New York Times notes:
The White House and Congressional Republicans hailed the Senate vote as critical to plugging what they saw as dangerous gaps in the intelligence agencies’ ability to detect terrorist threats.
"I can sleep a little safer tonight," Senator Christopher S. Bond, the Missouri Republican who co-sponsored the measure, declared after the Senate vote.
The measure approved by the Senate expires in six months and would have to be re-authorized. The White House’s grudging agreement to make it temporary helped to attract the votes of some moderate Democrats who said they thought it was important for Congress to approve some version of the wiretapping bill before its recess.
The White House and Republican leaders pressed the point throughout the day that a vote against the measure would put the nation at greater risk of attack.
No Republicans voted against the bill. The following Democrats voted for it: Evan Bayh (Indiana); Tom Carper (Delaware); Bob Casey (Pennsylvania); Kent Conrad (North Dakota); Dianne Feinstein (California); Daniel Inouye (Hawai‘i); Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota); Nancy Mary Landrieu (Louisiana); Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas); Claire McCaskill (Missouri); Barbara Mikulski (Maryland); Bill Nelson (Florida); Ben Nelson (Nebraska); Mark Pryor (Arkansas); Ken Salazar (Colorado); Jim Webb (Virginia).
Senators Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Barack Obama all opposed the bill, as did 23 other Democrats and Bernie Sanders, the independent from Vermont. Joe Lieberman voted ...well, you know how he voted.
Caroline Frederickson, head of the American Civil Liberties Union office here, said: "The Democrats caved in to the politics of fear we’re seeing from this administration. They didn’t want to be depicted as soft on terrorism. But this measure removes any court oversight from surveillance on Americans in a large number of cases."
CNN reported:
"Al Qaeda is not going on vacation this month," said Sen. Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. "And we can't either until we know we've done our duty to the American people." ...
Before the vote, Democrats excoriated the GOP plan, which Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia, said "provides a weak and practically nonexistent court review."
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, angrily chastised his colleagues for bending to the administration's will.
"The day we start deferring to someone who's not a member of this body ... is a sad day for the U.S. Senate," Feingold said. "We make the policy -- not the executive branch."
The bill is scheduled to be voted on Saturday in the House of Representatives where it is expected to pass with the help of scores of Democrats who will begin their summer recess with a trip to the hardware store for new kneepads.

For the sake of fairness, as we've been very hard on Barack Obama, we congratulate him on his vote against here. This would have been an easy "yes" for him. He needed to get out from under his dovish remarks this week and with Clinton voting "no," Obama could have pulled a nice bait-and-switch on her and voted "yes." Clearly, he had plenty of liberal cover. Or he could have easily said something along the lines of "on issues of national security, there's no one I respect more than my good friend, Senator Webb." Perhaps, Obama's got a whisper of a conscience after all. Or, perhaps, knowing he'd get the lion's share of the Yearly Kos Convention wristbands he wasn't about to spend the weekend there going in with a "yes" vote on this. Kelso wouldn't.

An aside: where did Edwards come up with this idea that Obama wasn't taking lobbyist money? Obama may not have been taking trade association lobby money, but he certainly has not been shy about taking money from individual entertainment and financial corporation lobbies or the employees thereof.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/moneyweb.asp?cycle=2008

But today we praise Obama, not bury him.

We bury: Evan Bayh (Indiana); Tom Carper (Delaware); Bob Casey (Pennsylvania); Kent Conrad (North Dakota); Dianne Feinstein (California); Daniel Inouye (Hawai‘i); Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota); Nancy Mary Landrieu (Louisiana); Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas); Claire McCaskill (Missouri); Barbara Mikulski (Maryland); Bill Nelson (Florida); Ben Nelson (Nebraska); Mark Pryor (Arkansas); Ken Salazar (Colorado); Jim Webb (Virginia), with extra prejudice reserved for those in bold. The others? How the fuck did you expect them to vote? They are either DLC, DINOs, or winners of very close elections. OK, there are reasons to throw Webb in with the rest -- military background, close election, vulnerable to attack ads saying he voted against "his own son," etc. But since when was Webb ever chicken? Ran a populist campaign against Macaca, had the temerity to tell Bush to fuck himself, and AS a military man, knows full well what Orwellian, anti-Military bullshit this bill is. Kelso was ready to become a big Webb supporter. Now, not so much. Mikulski? You've gotta be fucking kidding me! A Maryland progressive? No, that has to be a typo. How does this vote help her in the slightest? We can only analyze it from that point of view because she's been a relaible progressive for-fucking-ever. If she's planning to retire, this couldn't be the way she wants to go out. She's never been a Homeland Security Bitch before. She's the senior U.S. Senator from the state of MARYLAND! My God, there ARE 127 REPUBLICANS IN MARYLAND! And if she's thinking of running again, well, Kweisi Mfume's licking his chops over this one to be sure. And if by some chance she survives Mfume in the primary, it puts her in a very bad position against Steele (African-American Republican) in a general Senatorial election. Dementia? Alzheimer's disease? What's up with this?

And then there's Amy Klobuchar. First of all, what's an Amy Klobuchar? Oh, that's right, the junior U.S. Senator of Minnesota. Another state with a vast Republican population! Like as in, like, there isn't. If Kelso's charitable, he'll call it a rookie mistake. Fine. It was a rookie mistake. But it was a rookie mistake with big, long legs. If Al Franken misses against Coleman in 2008, he'll drop Klobuchar in the primary in 2012 like a bad habit.

Y'all know the rest. As Inouye ages, his WWII service becomes a bigger and bigger part of his inner monologue. In other words, he's become Old Man Anderson of Beavis and Butt-Head. Fair enough. Feinstein, we all know about. Rich as Croesus, weirded out on Israel. Typical Bay-Area bitch. Salazar? Kelso's seen this movie before. It's called "The Hallmark Hall-Of-Fame presents the 'Ben Nighthorse Campbell Story.'" What's "Democrat"-turned-Republican Campbell doing now? We can only hope he's back on the reservation eating Fluffer-Nutter sandwiches and drink grain alcohol. Casey? Well, whatever. We needed our own Santorum to beat Santorum, so Casey can do whatever he wants. Big deal. Everyone else is -- like -- Southern or something.

My God, even Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden voted against it.

Have fun with this everybody, but, remember Bush has recently signed executive orders giving him monarchical powers over everything you own including your own body.

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