One assumes they’re working on something more reliable that Michael Chertoff’s gut.

Nope.

The Repuke party and the democrap party disgust me beyond
discription. May they all rot in hell.

Could it be the "Catastrophic Event" that Bush's Martial Law/Dictatorial Powers type bill was talking about that would give Bush complete control of the government?

I thought we were "Fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here." If, God forbid, there's another attack in the U.S., I hope and pray that the populace will recognize it for what it is: The predictable result of this administration's insane policies.

I just heard that they gave him what he wanted. More power to wiretap without warrants.

Finally! Another country not weakened by cowardly "oh what about the 4th Amendment" civil liberty Democrat traitors.

Don't we owe our Commander In Chief the sort of unquestioned authority taken by the admired leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe?

Zimbabwe passes eavesdrop law
Harare, Zimbabwe
03 August 2007 05:55

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has signed into law a Bill allowing the state to eavesdrop on private phone conversations and monitor faxes and emails.

The Interception of Communication Act, published in the Government Gazette on Friday, provides for the setting up of an interception centre to listen into telephone conversations, open mail and intercept emails and faxes.

The law also compels internet service providers to install equipment to facilitate interception "at all times or when so required" and ensure that its equipment allows full-time monitoring of communications.

"A service provider who fails to give assistance in terms of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine ... or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years or to both," reads part of the new law.

The law came under a barrage of criticism while it was still being debated, with media groups saying it was a major step backwards.

The Zimbabwe Internet Service Providers' Association said many operators would shut down if they failed to raise foreign currency to import the interception devices.

"We have always been intercepted during communication, be it emails, phones or even at post offices, but with the passing of the law they will now do it on a large scale. This is a very sad day for Zimbabwe," said Harare-based media lawyer Wilbert Mandinde.

The government defended the new law saying it was necessary to protect the country from international terrorism and espionage. -- Sapa-AFP

They're probably more concerned about the nuts on BO's site.

Good thing we have a Democratic majority in Congress. Otherwise, Bush/Cheney would get whatever they want whenever they want.

Maybe Lott will invite everyone to stay with him at his rebuilt vacation home on the Gulf Coast.

Bush wanted to see it, so maybe Trent can include him along with everyone who's getting out of Washington. And the Iraqi Parliament are all on recess, so add them to the guest list. And include Cheney, but only on the condition that he leaves his hunting rifle home.

yenehC hcaepmI @ 8:

Wes @ 4:

Give the chimp what he wants and no one gets hurt. The democrats need to demand that witness' show up for testimony 1st, that subpoenas are honored 1st, before they give an inch to BushCO.

Forget about the silly sideshow they got going now. Get Cheney and Bush impeached ASAP!

Agreed, Bushco has got to go.

and @12-AGREED, I would like to see the names that voted to appease Bush.

What a bunch of bull crap. If America can't see they are just trying to put on a show so it will give the dems a excuse to vote for the surveillance insanity then they deserve this.

Maybe the Bushies are planning an attack so he can declare martial law and cancel the elections for 2008. His power grab must be near complete so nobody can do a damned thing about it except for all to raise up and fight the takeover. I wonder if the military would be willing to allow that to happen or if it would turn against them!

I don't trust any of those lying sacks of crap.

Trent Lott can't decide if he wants to be Jim Crow or Chicken Little.

Following LOTT's Logic (Leave and stay away until Sept 12) because the job has become more dangerous,

What about the guys over in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's pretty damn dangerous there every friggin day. so should they leave?
What a bunch of Chicken Hawk (shit) pussies.

We're tired of their crap.
♠♠♠♠♠♠♠

BobX @ 28:

Isn't this the same idiots that were defending the Iraqis for taking August off?

Bringing them democracy over there, so we don't have to have it here.

That would make a great bumper sticker

Pity that poor monster, Lott
His brain is infused with dry rot
"We're all gonna die!
Kiss your asses good-bye!"
What insanity hath Lott & Co. wrought.

And tell me again, how does bypassing what has been basically a rubber stamp by the FISA Court for all requests for interception of phone transmissions--including approval AFTER THE FACT--make any of us safer. This is Bushit.

George Bush talking to Dick Cheney:

"I thought you said we were giving the Iraqis our Democrats!"

pussy_galore @ 32:

Chuck @ 14:

It's called false flag terrorism and until everyone learns to recognize the tactic for what it is and how often it has been used through American history, most of the stories and debates that get kicked around this blog are seriously misunderstood.

Pussy Concurs. On a related note- isn't it awfully considerate of the terrorists to be so, well, predictable?

This is just the newest gage in predicting terrorist activities here in the U.S., bush-lite
decided that "Jerk-offs gut feeling" needed some fine tuning.

liberalista @ 15:

Good thing we have a Democratic majority in Congress. Otherwise, Bush/Cheney would get whatever they want whenever they want.

Like they do now?

Well, it's apparent that the Republicans' scary rhetoric works on the Democrats in Congress. It scares them right into giving Bush what he wants, every time.

DISGUSTING!

If they had any balls, they would have said "We'll stay in Washington as long as you like, Mr. President... and we won't sign our civil liberties away no matter what you say."

This is insane. If they're so sure and attack is coming, the existing system already works well enough - the fact that we know about an "impending attack" is proof of this.

If we need revision of the anti-terror system, rushing to revise it now won't prevent an attack "between now and September 12" - the new powers would only help gather info on future attacks.

Plus - we can't trust this administration with any more powers. They've lied to us, they fucked up everything they put their hands to; they can't run a war comptently.

I wish the Dems had a spine.

We should be grateful to George Bush for protecting us from all those evildoers. He's probably stopped lots of terrorist plots that are too secret for us to know about.

He just can't tell us about them because then the terrorists would know that he caught them.

Al Queda is laughing their asses off cowering in fear because George Bush is our President!

We don't need to worry, he's only taking our freedoms to keep them safe. He wouldn't lie to us!

This will be very short...because I must go run and hide in my basement; but first
gotta go to store and stock up on groceries and some more duct tape.

I've got the first part of Howard Dean's Yearly Kos keynote speech--the part about voting rights--posted here.

I seriously thought that idiot had retired. Imagine my shock to see Lott's name in the news for something other than "Soliciting male minors for sex" or "Senator caught with three teenage hookers". I guess he is still rebuilding his house so Bushit can come visit him in Mississippi. I kind of wonder if there are pics available that shows how well his neighborhood has been restored after Katrina so they could be compared to N.O.'s Ninth Ward.

jr @ 44:

Lott's on the new Searsucker Suit Wearers Gone Wild DVD

I heard he was supposed to go to Cox's to get his Searsucker-Suit,
But went to Sears instead.

(read it once more, you'll get it.)

This just in. There is growing evidence that Minnesota Republicans are mounting a concerted attack in Minnesota, undermining the state's infrastructure by failure to fund and then pointing at bright, shiny objects to distract our attention. The net result of the brilliant no-new-taxes strategery? For starters, the total collapse of a major interstate highway bridge in Minneapolis. Lives lost. Dozens of injuries -- some of them critical. Millions and millions of dollars to undo the damage and then replace the bridge. The Iraq strategy, then. And as I have been saying for the past few days, when government is small enough to drown it in the bathtub, which leads to drowning people in the Mississippi River, something is terribly wrong. Just sayin'.

Buzzflash.com
Senate passes Bush-backed spy bill
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0328188520070804

OT but good news for a change;
PAPER BALLOTS FOR CALIFORNIA! - SECRETARY OF STATE ANNOUNCES DE-CERTIFICATION/RE-CERTIFICATION PLANS FOR E-VOTING SYSTEMS

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4914#comments

Scum ScumaLOTT Scumatose Scum
retched little man
with death on his hands
what he wants right here
is for us to live in fear
Scum ScumaLOTT Scumatose Scum

Scum ScumaLOTT Scumatose Scum
wishes our flag would be
the same as the confederacy
does not seem to care
'bout non white people out there
Scum ScumaLOTT Scumatose Scum

Scum ScumaLOTT Scumatose Scum
his solution would be
massive spying on the free
and all the "right" people (the white)
should flee DC in fright
Scum ScumaLOTT Scumatose Scum

Scum ScumaLOTT Scumatose Scum
Scum ScumaLOTT Scumatose Scum

Why is Trent Lott-A-Vagina still in office? Did they lift the ban on Klan members in the Senate?

Chris @ 62:

DC residents should write their Senators and demand that Sen. Lott explain the danger! Oh... yeah, well now you have another reason to move to Maryland.

Does DC stand for "Dodge City?"

Trent Lott: Alien Sycophant? or is it Succubus?

veritas @ 64:

Now we know the truth: Trent Lott has an alien spaceship sending him signals hidden under that nasty, ill-fitting "rug" he wears on his head.

That's a rug? I thought he was wearing a dead cat.

Here are the Dems that caved again:

The following Democrats voted for it: Evan Bayh (Indiana); Tom Carper (Delaware); Bob Casey (Pennsylvania); Kent Conrad (North Dakota); Dianne Feinstein (California); Daniel Inouye (Hawai‘i); Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota); Nancy Mary Landrieu (Louisiana); Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas); Claire McCaskill (Missouri); Barbara Mikulski (Maryland); Bill Nelson (Florida); Ben Nelson (Nebraska); Mark Pryor (Arkansas); Ken Salazar (Colorado); Jim Webb (Virginia).

Pathetic.

It's clear now: Even the Democrats in Congress would trample our constitution and their oath of office in order to get to their vacation destinations on time! OUT WITH THEM ALL! THEY'RE ALL WORTHLESS, SPINELESS FOOLS.

The time has clearly come for a third party since neither party is now representing the will of the people nor upholding our constitution. THIS IS A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS we find ourselves in - make no mistake about it and the Democrats now have shown their cards.

The democrats can no longer be trusted either which means that if this democracy of the people is to continue, then the People need to have their own party and representation in Congress - VOTE FOR A THIRD!!

I hope that Bloomberg now runs and perhaps he can capture the heart and mind of Al Gore to run along with him. I believe that these two individuals are now THE ONLY two who can save this country from self-destruction.

Ask youself this question: Why is there no candidate running (Democrats included) who are not absolutely bull#hit about the abuse of executive power? Answer: Because they hope it remains (our rights overturned) when they are in office and they lust for it themselves. This is a very serious flaw in each of the candidates running right now.

Time for Al Gore and Mike Bloomberg!!

The obscene desire of the repugs to see the planet curled into a fetal position in fear while they lord it over us with their tinfoil hats and paper tigers is beyond insane.
They eat, breathe, wake and sleep on a diet of pure propaganda and they love it. So much that they want everyone to down the koolaid and join the cult, at gunpoint or otherwise, doesn't matter to them.

The only attack on the US this summer will be the continued repug attacks on civil liberties. Unless of course the shrub co. clan has plans to blow up another land mark in order to maintain the fear factor.

I fail to see how this even helps their political cause in the least. In fact, it defeats them by showing what a failure they've been and how they've achieved the opposite of what they promised.

All it does is say, in effect:

"Yes, we've done an absolutely hopeless job keeping you safe, our policies have in fact made things more dangerous, and after many years of wasted effort, thousands of wasted lives, and billions upon billions of wasted dollars, now, that danger is growing and is in fact imminent.

Therefore the LAST thing you should do is allow this administration, or its apologists like me, to decide anything about this subject whatsoever. Let someone more sane and rational take over, we've booted it, obviously".

Strange that they don't see this themselves.

Paul @ 70:

The senate Democrats capitulated to Bush and gave him what he wanted on FISA. I'm ashamed of the Democrats who have once again shown their spinelessness. Closing "loopholes" that are in reality constitutional rights must have given them a feeling of real accomplishment.

If there is another terrorist attack, I'm going to look squarely at the government as the perpetrator. To think that they know of a plan and yet have not acted to stop it or mitigate it (for example - ordering a complete evacuation in acknowledgment of an inability to thwart impending act) is bogus. The claim is either another in an endless series of successful scare scams( looks like the Senate Democrats swallowed this one hook, line and sinker) or it's a genuine plot. If it was a genuine plot, any sane person would not let the plotters know that they were onto was was being planned. If they knew enough about the plan toknow the date, they would also know enough to go after the plotters and shut them down - with prejudice. Failure to do so would be an act of abetting the terrorism. In other words, if the terroist act weren't a false flag operation, it could only then be carried out with the tacit permission of the government.

Lott seems to be talking as if he has some special knowledge. He's either bullshitting the public in order to advance the GOPer agenda of destroying the Constitution or his knowledge is legitimate, in which case the government is doing nothing to thwart the known terrorists and is instead using the planned act to consolidate its police state powers - apparently willing to sacrifice a city and it's population in order to secure that power.

I'm calling Bullshit on Lott and on the imminent terrorist plot. And I'm calling every senator of either party who voted to expand FISA a fool and a coward and a traitor to the Constitution.

Paul: You are absolutely spot on! Lott was the frontman this time or the circus "barker" as the case actually is - take off his wig and he becomes the clown, too.

Seriously, this was a major charade on the american people. We've been totally pimped now by both parties. How much longer can we, the people, continue to bend over when we know precisely what they're doing to us??

This month off will mean a massive movement out of the Dem Party and into the Independent Party based on yesterday's knuckling under. This was the largest mistake a party could make - to show their spinelessness and allow the trampling of our constitution so easily and then take a month off. Well, they may be on vacation and I say "bon voyage" to each of them because when the people get a list of the votes in favor of this illegal abuse of power, there will be campaigns nationally to unseat them all.

This is huge. This is a constitutional crisis. This will mark the beginning of the people taking back the reins of their country.

We need to press Al Gore into joining Michael Bloomberg and save this country.

getalife @ 69:

Here are the Dems that caved again:

The following Democrats voted for it: Evan Bayh (Indiana); Tom Carper (Delaware); Bob Casey (Pennsylvania); Kent Conrad (North Dakota); Dianne Feinstein (California); Daniel Inouye (Hawai‘i); Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota); Nancy Mary Landrieu (Louisiana); Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas); Claire McCaskill (Missouri); Barbara Mikulski (Maryland); Bill Nelson (Florida); Ben Nelson (Nebraska); Mark Pryor (Arkansas); Ken Salazar (Colorado); Jim Webb (Virginia).

Pathetic.

Puzzled @ 75:

I fail to see how this even helps their political cause in the least. In fact, it defeats them by showing what a failure they've been and how they've achieved the opposite of what they promised.

All it does is say, in effect:

"Yes, we've done an absolutely hopeless job keeping you safe, our policies have in fact made things more dangerous, and after many years of wasted effort, thousands of wasted lives, and billions upon billions of wasted dollars, now, that danger is growing and is in fact imminent.

Therefore the LAST thing you should do is allow this administration, or its apologists like me, to decide anything about this subject whatsoever. Let someone more sane and rational take over, we've booted it, obviously".

Strange that they don't see this themselves.

Thanks for this list, Getalife! Now it's time to get bush to unseat these Dem charlatans.

veritas @ 79:

getalife @ 69:

Here are the Dems that caved again:

The following Democrats voted for it: Evan Bayh (Indiana); Tom Carper (Delaware); Bob Casey (Pennsylvania); Kent Conrad (North Dakota); Dianne Feinstein (California); Daniel Inouye (Hawai‘i); Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota); Nancy Mary Landrieu (Louisiana); Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas); Claire McCaskill (Missouri); Barbara Mikulski (Maryland); Bill Nelson (Florida); Ben Nelson (Nebraska); Mark Pryor (Arkansas); Ken Salazar (Colorado); Jim Webb (Virginia).

Pathetic.

Puzzled @ 75:

I fail to see how this even helps their political cause in the least. In fact, it defeats them by showing what a failure they've been and how they've achieved the opposite of what they promised.

All it does is say, in effect:

"Yes, we've done an absolutely hopeless job keeping you safe, our policies have in fact made things more dangerous, and after many years of wasted effort, thousands of wasted lives, and billions upon billions of wasted dollars, now, that danger is growing and is in fact imminent.

Therefore the LAST thing you should do is allow this administration, or its apologists like me, to decide anything about this subject whatsoever. Let someone more sane and rational take over, we've booted it, obviously".

Strange that they don't see this themselves.

Thanks for this list, Getalife! Now it's time to get bush to unseat these Dem charlatans.

hahahah! Freudian slip there...meant "not it time to get "busy" (not bush) to unseat these Dems. Guess he actually has in reality because they've joined his side of the fence in this war against the people now. Too funny!

veritas @ 81:

veritas @ 79:

getalife @ 69:

Here are the Dems that caved again:

The following Democrats voted for it: Evan Bayh (Indiana); Tom Carper (Delaware); Bob Casey (Pennsylvania); Kent Conrad (North Dakota); Dianne Feinstein (California); Daniel Inouye (Hawai‘i); Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota); Nancy Mary Landrieu (Louisiana); Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas); Claire McCaskill (Missouri); Barbara Mikulski (Maryland); Bill Nelson (Florida); Ben Nelson (Nebraska); Mark Pryor (Arkansas); Ken Salazar (Colorado); Jim Webb (Virginia).

Pathetic.

Puzzled @ 75:

I fail to see how this even helps their political cause in the least. In fact, it defeats them by showing what a failure they've been and how they've achieved the opposite of what they promised.

All it does is say, in effect:

"Yes, we've done an absolutely hopeless job keeping you safe, our policies have in fact made things more dangerous, and after many years of wasted effort, thousands of wasted lives, and billions upon billions of wasted dollars, now, that danger is growing and is in fact imminent.

Therefore the LAST thing you should do is allow this administration, or its apologists like me, to decide anything about this subject whatsoever. Let someone more sane and rational take over, we've booted it, obviously".

Strange that they don't see this themselves.

Thanks for this list, Getalife! Now it's time to get bush to unseat these Dem charlatans.

hahahah! Freudian slip there...meant "not it time to get "busy" (not bush) to unseat these Dems. Guess he actually has in reality because they've joined his side of the fence in this war against the people now. Too funny!

Webb?? Webb?? WTF?? I can't believe this!

Frybread @ 82:

veritas @ 80:

Diane Feinstein surprises me the most! What the hell is that woman thinking?

She, like the other Democratic cowards, is thinking how she is going to spend her month-long vacation.

Feinstein and Webb absolutely stun me on this! What the heck are they thinking? Certainly they can't believe that the people would support them on this? This critical error in judgment on the part of ALL the democrats (the messengers of what we now are realizing was a "fake message" after all) will finish them off next time 'round.

Doggiebobo @ 78:

Frybread @ 72:

We should all -- and I mean the entire American electorate with more than two neurons -- join forces to vote Republicans like Trent Lott out of office. The man is using a terrorism for political gain. He has no morals, no honor, and no shame. We don't need henchmen and fearmongerers like this in our government.

You're preaching to the choir, however, it's those voters in Mississippi who need to be
educated. They watch Faux Noise only, and are among those wonderful religious
Christians who truly believe that "their" leader(bush-lite) has a direct line to God,
therefore HE can do no wrong. Really sad and a shame that there are so many of
that kind in Mississippi and other Southeastern States...narrow minded, uninformed
and totally ignorant as to how this admin. is destroying our Constitution.

liberalista @ 15:

Good thing we have a Democratic majority in Congress. Otherwise, Bush/Cheney would get whatever they want whenever they want.

Unfortunately, many of us know who Bush is channeling and it isn't god!