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McCain to telecoms: Five Hail Mary’s and a sincere Act of Contrition

Friday, May 23, 2008

A McCain spokesman says his man is against giving the telecoms immunity, until, that is, they express “heartfelt repentance”. As president, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain would not support immunity for the telecoms that aided the Bush administration’s warrantless spying program, unless there were revealing Congressional hearings and heartfelt repentance from those telephone and internet […]

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Secretary of torture

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Condi does not condone torture. She can say this because, according to their lawyer and their Orwellian way of thinking, it’s only torture if they say it is, and they say it isn’t. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gqaw5UnHA4[/youtube] Sign the Get Rid of Condi Petition here. Yes, I know it’s not going to happen, but that’s no excuse.

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Murphy grandstanding on “home invasions”

Friday, April 4, 2008

Congressman Murphy wants to make home invasions a federal crime. The wave of home invasions, by my count, has now reached two in the State of Connecticut, clearly calling for a federal response. This is a stupid idea. It makes no sense, so of course it has a good chance of passing. How does making […]

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Big Brother coming to Ledyard

Friday, April 4, 2008

Sometimes I’m a bit naive, I must confess. When I read this article in this morning’s Day, I was frankly puzzled: Steve Masalin said after almost every snowstorm, residents call him to complain their roads haven’t been plowed. “It happens frequently, almost all the time,” said Masalin, the town’s director of Public Works, on Thursday. […]

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More outrage fatigue

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The country is now in possession of the full text of the previously classified torture memo authored by one John Yoo, who believes that presidents named George Bush were endowed with unlimited powers by James Madison and the other fans of an untrammeled executive that authored the Constitution. Glenn Greenwald has two excellent posts (here […]

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Another round lost to the crazies

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Across the left side of the blogosphere, tempers are running high. Supporters of each candidate are damning the other, and threatening to withhold their votes should the other side prevail. In the heat of the moment we forget that the difference between them is slight, and that a McCain victory may seal the fate of […]

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Joe Courtney does right on FISA

Friday, March 14, 2008

Joe Courtney has been sticking to his guns on the FISA bill, despite the Republican attempts to tar him with their scurrilous ads. This was posted on Kos, but since I know some of my readers don’t frequent many blogs, I’m reposting it here: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_nrZ8cg0bY[/youtube] It’s nice to be able to take pride in your […]

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House passes acceptable FISA bill

Friday, March 14, 2008

No telecom immunity and no Congressional authorized pass for Bush lawbreaking. Joe Courtney on the right side of this. Some of the Dems who voted against it did so because they opposed any spying.

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Why won’t Congress listen to Mark Klein?

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

When Chris Dodd tried to stop telecom immunity, Harry Reid failed to honor his “hold”, a procedural move that he has allowed Republicans to make time and time again. Many wonder why. The Democrats have flaunted their impotence by subpoenaing White House officials who blow them off without consequences (the recent lawsuit has been assigned […]

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Is that a spine we’re seeing?

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A while back I noted that it looked like the Democrats in the House were about to join their siblings in the Senate, and cave on the telecom immunity issue. It’s only fair that I report that I may (hopefully) have spoken too soon. Not only are the Democrats not caving, they seem to be […]

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