Bush is speaking on FISA (CNNi/CNN)...now

[Solly Mack]

[Solly Mack]

1. He's fussing on them for taking so long to "protect America"

Praising the Senate and the telecoms

[Solly Mack]

2. If we allow telecoms to be sued, they will no longer help protect America

the senate has passed a "good bill" and have shown that spying on Americans is not a "partisan issue"

Fussing on the House..."they have not passed a good bill"

[Solly Mack]

4. "I will not accept any extensions"

The house should pass the senate bill "immediately"...they are failing to "protect citizens"

[Solly Mack]

7. All done...that was short and bitter

[babylonsister]

3. Have I mentioned lately how I loathe him? I do without a doubt. nt

[Solly Mack]

5. to the nth!

[A wise Man]

6. Who gives a "DAM" .....

..what that ignorant fool has to say about anything. We've lost our country to him, the republicans and some ignorant democrats and there's no one to help us get it back, but a "Revolution"!!!!! Fuck bush!!!

[Pappy]

8. The Dems just passed it in the Senate, and the Prez got what he wanted, including immunity

Here is the link:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080213/D8UP3K000.html

We need to know the names of the Dems who voted for it so we can oust them. Can someone figure out the Senate Bill number so we can see who voted for it. Turns out that some Repugs voted against it, which means a good amount of Dems did vote for it.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080213/D8UP3K000.html

pappy

[Solly Mack]

9. There are several threads on that

Here is one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2856711

[Pappy]

10. Here is the list of who voted for Telcom immunity

Bayh (D-IN)
Carper (D-DE)
Conrad (D-ND)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Webb (D-VA)

[VP505]

15. The same sorry

sacks of shit that always cave and vote with the RePukes. BTW, Feinstein voted NO, Whitehouse voted yes, according to the U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes page.

[gollygee]

19. Not Stabenow again!

The day she voted for the torture bill, the Michigan Dems called me asking for money, and I told them "not this time, today isn't a good day for you to be asking" and I went into details as to why. What the hell is up with her? She always seems to be one of the few to go along with the Republicans.

[bdamomma]

11. I am not watching thank goodness

but is he smirking from ear to ear, that miserable drunk.

[Solly Mack]

12. It was a short speech...and he was actually behaving as if

he didn't get what he wanted and fussing on Congress for taking so long and at the House for not getting in lockstep with the Senate

[bdamomma]

13. I hate this man, now what?? what will be next?

when people start disappearing mysteriously in the night because they said something they weren't supposed to say. Truly disgusting, I hope those Telecom companies screw this regime good, you never know.

[L. Coyote]

14. Bush is sweating bullets. He is sooo worried about jail time. FELON!

Vacuuming up all fiber optic communications and sending them to points unknown, where we have no constitution protections, is at least a felony.

It certainly is the sort of impeachable offense America will not tolerate, if they ever realize the gravity of the violations of their Constitutional rights.

And, once they realize the President is above the law, the rule of law breaks down to all force and no respect.

[Solly Mack]

17. Hard to respect a rule of law that is applied so unevenly

More especially when the constant refrain is "No one is above the law"....when clearly there are those who are above the law.


I know the thinking (for some) is that the govt. is, somehow, different...exampled by the " in light of his/her years of public service" argument used as a mitigating factor for breaking the public trust...which I think is BS.

There's also the thinking that the people can't handle a President going to prison...that it would shatter their faith in government...like all the corruption, criminality, and enabling isn't already doing just that.

You can't go around saying no one is above the law and then allow a President to get away with crimes. People will notice the lie.

[lpbk2713]

16. Does he look hung over?

This must be terribly important for him to

be out of bed this early in the morning.

[Solly Mack]

20. He looked constipated more than anything

but then he is FOS

[spanone]

18. why's he worried, congress will give him whatever the fuck he wants

[bdamomma]

22. We need to clean up Congress, we should throw them out

when/or if we have an election.

[bdamomma]

21. Here are the Senators who voted the right way for us on FISA

Grouped By Vote Position YEAs ---31
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Casey (D-PA)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murray (D-WA)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Tester (D-MT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

I'm calling my Senators to express my thanks, and that they still care about the Constitution.