Glenn Greenwald has all the disguising details. I think most important is this part: Let’s just describe very factually and dispassionately what has happened here. Congress — led by Senators, such as Jay Rockefeller, who have received huge payments from the telecom industry, and by privatized intelligence pioneer Mike McConnell, former Chairman of the secretive […]
Today’s Washington Post tells us that NOW 7 GOP Senators want to debate the Warner/Levin amendment, making this one of the biggest WTF moments in recent history: Senate Republicans who earlier this week helped block deliberations on a resolution opposing President Bush’s new troop deployments in Iraq changed course yesterday and vowed to use every […]
All the arguments last year over the warrentless wiretapping, and all the spin by wingnuts to say it is legal has now come to an end: President George W. Bush has decided not to reauthorize the controversial domestic warrantless surveillance program for terrorism suspects and to put it under the authority of a secret special […]
Yesterday I posted about E.J. Dionne’s piece called “the End of Conservatism?” Steve posted at Crooks and Liars an entry that falls along the same lines. Now we learn of even more Republicans leaving their party because they feel their is no room for moderates. OKLAHOMA CITY — Republican state Sen. Nancy Riley, complaining there […]
Since the Voting Rights Act has been hijacked by a handful of Republicans, can it be considered a racist move? Well let’s start by looking at who exactly hijacked this very important piece of legislation: The postponed vote is the latest example of divisions within the GOP that have complicated House and Senate leaders’ efforts […]
Well this is some disturbing information coming from the treasury: Treasury Secretary John Snow has warned that unless Congress raises the national debt limit, the US government will run out of cash to finance its daily work in two months. In a letter to Senate leaders Thursday, Snow said the statutory debt limit imposed by […]
Senate leaders have reached an agreement to extend the Patriot Act for 6 months so it can be examined more and possible have further protections of civil liberties added in. The extension is twice as long as Democrats were asking for but it is a Democrat victory none the less. It is also a victory […]
Senate Blocks Alaska Refuge Drilling By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer The Senate blocked oil drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge Wednesday, rejecting a measure that had been put into a must-pass defense spending bill in an attempt to garner wider support. Drilling supporters fell four votes short of getting the required 60 votes […]
Bush acknowledges secret order for domestic spying President George W. Bush on Saturday acknowledged he signed a secret order after the September 11, 2001, attacks to allow the surveillance of people in the United States. In a rare live radio address, Bush defended the practice as a “vital tool” in defending the United States against […]