I feel as though I’ve written this post before.
Talk about a conundrum.
What’s worse? A Senator who doesn’t vote? Or a Senator who votes the wrong way?
What a sad day for the United States.
Category Archives: FISA
Arizona Delegation’s FISA Vote
Looks no different than it would prior to the 2006 so-called Democratic Wave
Aye AZ-1 Renzi, Rick [R] Aye AZ-2 Franks, Trent [R] Aye AZ-3 Shadegg, John [R] Nay AZ-4 Pastor, Edward [D] Aye AZ-5 Mitchell, Harry [D] Aye AZ-6 Flake, Jeff [R] Nay AZ-7 Grijalva, Raul [D] Aye AZ-8 Giffords, Gabrielle [D] via Govtrack.us
Thanks for standing up for the constitution, Raúl and Ed – I won’t forget it. As for the rest of you, well, this pretty much sums it up:
“I think the White House got a better deal than even they had hoped to get,” said Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri, who led the negotiations.
It’s All Fun and Games Until…
…you stab your cuñado.
Maybe the Democratic debates should come with an R rating.
Things turned violent in a Montgomery County home during a televised debate between candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
It ended with Obama supporter Sean Shurelds being taken to Hahnemann Hospital with stab wounds that were allegedly inflicted by his brother-in-law, Clinton backer Jose Ortiz.
The chingasos happened last Thursday during the debate in Tejas. I seriously doubt that last night’s snooze-fest in Ohio could inflame such idiocy. Unless, of course, you found your temper boiling at the lack of pillows on the stage.
SEN. CLINTON: Well, can I just point out that in the last several debates, I seem to get the first question all the time. And I don’t mind. I — you know, I’ll be happy to field them, but I do find it curious, and if anybody saw “Saturday Night Live,” you know, maybe we should ask Barack if he’s comfortable and needs another pillow. (Laughter, boos.) I just find it kind of curious that I keep getting the first question on all of these issues. But I’m happy to answer it.
To be fair, I think both Democratic candidates need to put the brakes on petty side-skirmishes like this. It’s coming from both directions, while things like this hit the headlines of communities:
The U.S. Supreme Court may shed light on a festering legal issue when it rules on a Tucson case involving a warrantless search of a suspect’s car, but the decision likely won’t affect a lot of people, lawyers say.“It’s an interesting legal problem,” said University of Arizona law professor Gabriel J. “Jack” Chin. “But it’s probably not going to be a landmark.”The justices announced Monday they will hear arguments in a case involving Rodney Joseph Gant to decide whether officers must demonstrate a threat to their safety or the need to preserve evidence to justify a warrantless search.
‘Cuz warrantless searches are all the rage in this day and age.
Fantasies? Hardly
Ouch. Looks like the Democratic Congress jabbed at the cage alittle too hard, because there was lots of squawking and poo-flinging coming from the direction of the White House podium.
After the Senate banned waterboarding yesterday, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino claimed the “left wing” was trying to overtake the intelligence community:
They’ll have to ask themselves, ‘Do you trust the intelligence community more than you trust Democrats who are beholden to their left-wing?‘ And that’s the debate that this country is going to have.
Perino also attacked Congress for holding a contempt of Congress vote on White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers instead of expanding Bush’s surveillance powers:
The American people will find it baffling that on a day that House leaders are trying to put off passing critical legislation to keep us safer from the threat of foreign terrorists overseas, they are spending scarce time to become the first congress in history to bring contempt charges against a president’s chief of staff and lawyer. … The ‘people’s House’ should reflect the priorities of the American people, not the fantasies of left-wing bloggers.
Dana Perino must be a conservative, because her imagination could use a healthy dose of performance-enhancing steroids. If she thinks that stopping illegal (and impeachable) spying by the Bushistas is a “fantasy of left-wing bloggers” – hooooo lawdy, as my friends in the South like to say. I could think of much more exciting things I’d like to see them spend their precious time on in Washington. The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, for example.
Where’s Dana’s outrage on that one, HUH? Doesn’t she know that terrorist marmots lurk in the shadows, awaiting the coordinated moment when they storm the world en masse?
LatinoPolítico.com 