Finding Your Spine in DC - it's Contageous!
In the past couple of days, we've told Ted Stevens he can't use the war to smuggle money into Alaska or oil refineries into the Arctic, told Bush that the Patriot Act may not be fully patriotic, and even questioned his need to spy on us more than we thought he was already.
What's going on here in DC these days? It's almost as though a spinal straightening virus has broken out in town.
A couple of days ago a judge on Bush's secret (ok, maybe not so secret anymore) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court resigned over the legality of Bushie's secret spy on Americans program. Well that seems to have spread a bit over there. According to this morning's Post,
"Several members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said in interviews that they want to know why the administration believed secretly listening in on telephone calls and reading e-mails of U.S. citizens without court authorization was legal. Some of the judges said they are particularly concerned that information gleaned from the president's eavesdropping program may have been improperly used to gain authorized wiretaps from their court."
Spinal Straightenitus -- spread it where you can today.
What's going on here in DC these days? It's almost as though a spinal straightening virus has broken out in town.
A couple of days ago a judge on Bush's secret (ok, maybe not so secret anymore) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court resigned over the legality of Bushie's secret spy on Americans program. Well that seems to have spread a bit over there. According to this morning's Post,
"Several members of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court said in interviews that they want to know why the administration believed secretly listening in on telephone calls and reading e-mails of U.S. citizens without court authorization was legal. Some of the judges said they are particularly concerned that information gleaned from the president's eavesdropping program may have been improperly used to gain authorized wiretaps from their court."
Spinal Straightenitus -- spread it where you can today.
posted by Anonymous at 10:37 AM
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interesting development vis a vis oregon's senior senator, gordon smith. he has gone back and forth on the anwar drilling, promising finally for his-re-election not to support it. well, once it got piggybacked onto the defense appropriations bill, he switched sides and decided to throw his support behind the ANWAR initiative--as he bucked the party and voted against the "deficit reduction" bill. well, now anwar has been defeated, apparently, and he's on record as doing a flipflop on anwar--not cool here in oregon. and he's mightly offended the base by voting against all those cuts.
this fellow has not had a good week.
Few Senators have had a good week. I think of it as my early Christmas gift, having Republicans forced to face up to their pretty angry constituents down the road.
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