Author: BooMan

FISA Possibly Delayed

It looks like Majority Whip Dick Durbin is telling the press that the FISA vote will be delayed until after the July 4th recess in deference to Sen. Russ Feingold. I’m also hearing that this is not yet a sure bet. If it is...

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Obama, Dangerstein, and FISA

Carrie Budoff Brown has a pretty good piece in today’s Politico that takes a look at the Netroots’ disappointment in Barack Obama’s FISA stance. It has quotes from Matt Stoller, Jane Hamsher, and Markos...

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Open Thread

Oops. No one around all at the same time. What’s shaking on your end, chief?

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Pay-Go the War

It’s great that the Blue Dogs are so flush with cash that they have “more money than [they] can spend on [their] own members and endorsed House candidates, sometimes called “Blue pups.”” And it’s a shame...

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Watching the Capitulation

Cheney passed his first hurdle to getting retroactive immunity. The Senate voted 80-15 to begin debate on H.R. 6304; Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Fifteen is a long way from the forty-one we need to stop this...

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