Disappointing at Best
Posted by TRex@ 5:10 pm Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Barack Obama, FISA | 43 Comments »Well, our nominee is being decidedly underwhelming on FISA: UPDATE VII: Barack Obama got around to issuing a statement and -- citing what he calls "the grave threats that we face" -- he just announced that he supports this warrantless eavesdropping ...
Waiting, Waiting on You
Posted by TRex@ 8:48 pm Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in FISA | 43 Comments »Still waiting to find out what the Obama campaign has to say about the FISA capitulation by Congressional Dems. Glenn: UPDATE IV: Several readers have emailed to say that they called the Obama campaign and were told that Obama and his staff ...
Wild Things
Posted by TRex@ 3:17 pm Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in FISA | 34 Comments »The Sundays, "Wild Horses". They've released the text of the FISA "compromise" bill and it's worse than we thought. Glenzilla: CQ reports (sub. req.) that "a final deal has been reached" on FISA and telecom amnesty and "the House is likely to take ...
Brendan Calling (and Calling and Calling and Calling again…)
Posted by TRex@ 11:00 pm Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Doormatocrats, FISA | 42 Comments »Thorn in my side, You know that's all you ever were. A bundle of lies, You know that's all that it was worth... You guys remember Brendan, right? He's so punk rock. He spent a big part of his day today making ...
Obfuscate! Obfuscate! Rah! Rah! Rah!
Posted by Fat Charlie the Archangel@ 6:30 pm Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Posted in 2008 Race, Cap'n Mac, FISA, blogospheric phenomena | 194 Comments »Certain parts of the blogosphere appear to have gotten themselves into a tizzy over recent remarks by McCain't and persons associated with his campaign regarding warrantless wiretapping. Greenwald thinks he sees a "complete reversal" of position from December 2007 to now. But ...
You Can Learn a Lot from a Pissed-Off Drag Queen
Posted by TRex@ 9:31 pm Saturday, March 15th, 2008 Posted in Doormatocrats, FISA | 37 Comments »I believe the lovely and oh-so-demure creature in the clip above should be hired at once to conduct motivational seminars for Congressional Democrats. Can you imagine how different the 2007 legislative year would have been if Nancy Pelosi had ...
People Like Us
Posted by TRex@ 12:33 pm Friday, March 14th, 2008 Posted in FISA, GOP Cargo Cult | 20 Comments »Thanks to Burnsy for pointing me to these clips, which demonstrate what it would be like to live in a world where Republicans get everything they want.
A Standup Guy Emerges
Posted by Fat Charlie the Archangel@ 11:29 pm Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in FISA, the good guys, yay! | 54 Comments »Who would ever have thought that Sylvestre Reyes, the Chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, had the stones for this? If you haven't seen it yet, check out the letter he wrote to President Stonato yesterday. It's ...
Have Fun in Africa, Sparky
Posted by TRex@ 9:13 am Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in FISA, that idiot | 91 Comments »(image by darkblack) Arrivaderci! Osmosis amoebas! Don't forget to write! Don't take any wooden malaria tents, bitch! In what has to have been the single most petulant, debasing tantrum thrown by any chief executive in history, yesterday, Little ...
Nothin’, I Got Nothin’!
Posted by TRex@ 11:00 pm Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in FISA, GOP Cargo Cult, TeeVee | 92 Comments »Except kind of a headache. Keith Olbermann has rather a lot to say about Preznint DrunkUncle's piece of shit press conference today, however. Go watch that and we'll talk.