I think the news that the House is readying to cave to the telecommunication corporations and grant retroactive immunity requires the blogosphere to commit a really futile and stupid gesture.
D-Day: War’s over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.
Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough…
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? “Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble.” Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this. Wormer, he’s a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer…
Otter: Dead! Bluto’s right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
Bluto: We’re just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let’s do it.
Bluto: LET’S DO IT!
It’s obvious at this point that Jay Rockefeller is guilty of knowingly going along with serial violations of our Fourth Amendment rights. He doesn’t want lawsuits that will expose that he is Dick Cheney’s accomplice. There is probably no way that Jay Rockefeller can be defeated in a primary or the general election. But, who cares? We need to send a message. I’ll give money to any buffoon that runs against him. And if no one runs against him, I’ll give money to the Republican. Jello Jay Rockefeller is now at the very top of my shit list. He’s a criminal as far as I am concerned, and he is strong-arming other Democrats into covering up his crimes. Not me. He should be frog-marched into a federal penitentiary.
I’m still of a mind to think that Jello’s DNA doesn’t have an ounce of Civil Rights in its makeup. So, for him, this has never been a Constitutional crisis because what Jello’s DNA does include is a fair dose of corp greed. Suffice it to say that my family has been on the receiving end of Jello’s family corp greed for nearly 100 years.
That said, while we’ve been blinded by our focus on the civil rights aspect of FISA, let’s remember that Bush, Cheney and their makeup has always demonstrated a complete black hole when it came to individual rights and the Constitution. That don’t give a shit except that it keeps all of us otherwise occupied and out of their corp hair.
No, this administration is all about the symbiotic relationship of growing corporations. So I would pose that data mining, say, Dow Chemical would be way more up this admin’s alley. Besides, with us ‘thinking’ that we’re the targets, it’s a great twofer ripoff.
this is just depressing.
i hate this shit. I hate having the rug pulled out from under us at every single step.
Yep
and yet we have obama offering jobs to the very assholes that made our current situation what it is.
and then the democrats wonder “why don’t people vote for us?”
Assholes. Everyone who votes for this should swing.
Yes. The silence on the left is deafening. The left was so busy lining up behind two right-of-center presidential nominees that they forgot about the important issues. Both Obama and Clinton get Ds for their performance on this issue. They both clearly have very little interest in fighting for our core liberties. They are on Jay Rockefeller’s side.
Why some progressives sold out for so cheap is beyond me. At least Jay Rockefeller got a good deal for betraying his country. The progressives get pooped on once again.
What a bunch of suckers and losers liberals and Democrats are. They are so allergic to fighting that they literally don’t know how to do it. As a result we get this pathetic exercise or sorta-kinda fighting and the eventual cave-in. It’s shaping up to be a classic Democratic maneuver. No, it’s not a pincer move, a surprise attack, or even an all out full-on frontal attack. No, it’s a mock charge followed by falling to the ground and begging your enemy not to hurt you move. The Democrats gave a fake battle cry, charged at their enemy for a few steps, then got scared and dropped their swords and fell to their knees begging the enemy to save them. Classic democratic maneuver warfare. Surrender and beg for mercy.
The Democratic party is guilty of gross political malpractice. What was the strategy here? To make futile gestures of independence from Bush only to cave-in in at the end? Boy, that sure was a lose lose strategy–Harry Reid and Dick Cheney couldn’t have planned it better. I’m done with these un-American traitors throwing away our liberty because little Jay is scared of big bad Bush and the boogeyman. Jay Rockefeller proves that one can’t buy integrity–he may be rich but he will go down as one of the biggest prostitutes to ever serve in the Senate. Screw Jay Rockefeller and the party of cut and runners he represents. The party that Bush merely needs to yell, “boo” to to get them to run scared like little girls. Actually, a run-of-the-mill 10 year old girl has more integrity and courage than the Democrats. They’re yellow-bellied cowards that deserve to serve as Mr. Bush’s lickspittle-wiping servants. Why anyone would entrust these rudderless moral midgets and political incompetents is beyond me.
The worst part of this is that I don’t even know if I’ll even bother calling.
the people who need to hear from me aren’t my reps, or they don’t care what I have to say anyway. I’m tired of wasting my limited minutes calling people who don’t give a shit about the constitution to futilely tell them to stick up for it.
At this point I’m questioning whether I’m even going to bother voting this year.
i’m with you… i’ve totally had it… now with reyes floating trial balloons for total capitulation, what the hell are we supposed to do…? there’s not even any pretense any more about taking the oath of office seriously… we are so screwed…