Vichy Dems who voted for the FISA bill to indemnify Bush of his #1 impeachable offense

[Leopolds Ghost]

Clinton (D-NY), Not Voting
Graham (R-SC), Not Voting
Obama (D-IL), Not Voting

A clear signal to their colleagues that it is OK to vote FOR the bill
to protect those running for office and ensure passage of something
that is "inevitable, regardless of how the base feels about it".
This is SOP in Washington and a crystal clear signal when the only
people "not voting" are Clinton and Obama.

EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN SENATOR VOTED FOR WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING,
whereas the Dems were specifically whipped to vote their conscience,
another clear sign that the bill's passage was pre-engineered to
allow liberal senators to save face while ensuring passage.

Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea (actually D-NSA, this is a jobs issue for her)
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea (author of the bill to legalize wiretapping)
Salazar (D-CO), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea

Tester in Montana and Dorgan in ND, the supposedly conservative
farm country populists, voted Nay.

Johnson, who is recovering from brain aneurism in SD, showed up
to vote Yea.... unlike Clinton and Obama.

10,000 people -- actually twice that considering the knock-on
effects of security clearance contractor work in the DC area --
work on the NSA's existing illegal program in Maryland and Virginia
with ample building infrastructure and petabytes of broadband access
built specifically to connect them to nearby global internet portals
created to ensure military access to the original ARPANet, as
Atlantic Monthly (or was it Vanity Fair?) revealed in their expose
of the NSA dragnet that explains why the supposed FISA "reform"
is merely the camel's nose under the tent.

This may help explain Webb and Mikulski's vote; a Nay vote would put
20,000 people out of work in MD and VA by confirming that what they're
doing is illegal.

The whole point of the BRAC realignment is to move these illegal jobs
into centralized headquarters in sparkling new high security campuses
with new road access provided by local jurisdictions who are eager
to get high-security high-tech information warfare jobs in the
military and related media, telecom and IT industries.

See also Russert, Tim and Woodward, Bob
and other media figures working for the telcos
who mysteriously got a military send-off.)