Donate if you can to our new FISA page. The Blue Dogs for retroactive Immunity are stomping their feet and writing letters to Nancy Pelosi:
In a January letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, 21 Blue Dog Coalition members made it known they supported granting immunity to the telecoms, and urged Pelosi to move quickly to pass the Senate version of the bill. (The 21 members who signed the letter are listed below.)
Members of the Blue Dog Coalition were integral in the passage of the highly controversial Protect America Act (PAA), a Republican-backed bill that greatly expanded spy powers in August 2007. The PAA was allowed to expire in February in the face of stark warnings from the Bush administration.
Rep. Boehner is threatening to shut down the HOUSE at this moment over the bill because these crybabies aren’t getting their way. From the comments: John Boehner and the Repubs have just brought a 4th motion to adjourn on the House floor, in yet another tantrum to “shut down the house” until their FISA BS is voted on.
These are the same House members who do this again and again when it comes to any legislation that isn’t horribly corporatist and regressive. They hold the Democratic party hostage, and can effectively passing legislation most any time they want to join with the Republicans to do so…
Glenn Greenwald writes: Targeting Bad Democrats
The only real prospect for changing any of that is to attach a political price, some form of meaningful punishment, when they do things such as vote to abolish habeas corpus or to vest new warrantless eavesdropping powers in the President or to grant amnesty to telecoms. That needs to be done even if it means weakening the bad Democrat in question. Last October, when six House Democrats announced that they would vote to sustain Bush’s veto of SCHIP legislation, a group of blogs — including FDL and C&L — raised funds to run negative robocalls in the districts of all six, and five of the six ended up switching their position.
Howie has a great quote form John Hall (D-NY), twice endorsed by Blue America on FISA. And we were successful in our efforts on SCHIP. Here’s what we did….. Jane set up a poll and the top two Bush Dogs picked will be the targets of our newest push against them so go and vote. We need your help in fighting back so please give what you can to our Blue America PAC against FISA page
We’ve had great success fighting against these Bush Dogs and will not back down now…
Howie sez: These 6 have been consistent Bush Regime rubber stamps across the board and each signed a letter to Nancy Pelosi supporting retroactive immunity.
John Barrow (GA)
Chris Carney (PA)
Leonard Boswell (IA)
Brad Ellsworth (IN)
Zack Space (OH)
Heath Shuler (NC)
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Okay back to business. As unusual.
O.T. Admiral Fallon resigns. Who didn’t know that was going to happen.
Ron @ 2:
The numb and dumb most likely.
Blue America PAC against FISA Retroactivce Immunity: Targeting Bush Dogs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
and yet another reason why -
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Lose enough Democrats in the house and it will become as gridlocked as the Senate.
Don’t kid yourself.
There are districts were a Blue Dog is as good as we’re going to get.
katy @ 5:
Thanks
I read Boehner’s name and then crybaby, and i figured he was letting loose again… :)
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
LOL how bout a best “crew” category?
Getting rid of the DINOs is a GOOD THING
I think Pelosi has been assimilated by the Bush Borg.
Admiral William Fallon, head of US Central Command, is stepping down effective March 31.
What’s next? Why now bush can go ahead with his plans to invade Iran and further harm the real war on Terror in Afghanistan. We all knew that bush would get rid of Fallon because he was a voice of reason in an otherwise completely inept administration. So now it’s completely Inept.
It’s time to make noise people, time to get off the couch turn off the Reality show and get into the real reality.
I’m going for Carney. He voted against voting rights for DC.
CD @ 6:
Blue America is responsible for eliminating Carville/Emmanuel Democrat in the primaries. Replacing a DINO with a progressive is the plan and it’s working. People are learning not to vote against their own interests.Thanks for your concern.
I can spare $10. Anyone care to match?
No to retroactive immunity! The scoundrels.
This is Olbermann interviewing Mark Klein the whistleblower who exposes the lie Bush still repeats, that the eavesdropping was legal.
From Jan 12 ‘08. It has been posted by others.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GspsG3Jd5co
Boner crying again?? This clown needs to be voted out of office.
I also have a great quote from John Hall. (Although this was probably actually written by his former wife Johanna):
There’s a man in a white house selling everyone a used
car
And he plays with his prophets, dreams that he’s a football
star
But the dreams rain down fire on the little plastic men
And if you think it doesn’t hurt you, you had better
think again
Every breath has its meaning
You’re blowing out and I’m breathing in
So take care what you do
Cause it all comes back again
♣Bangkok Bob♣ @ 12:
They won’t until it occurs to them that the reason we are trying conquer the Middle East is so we can take on the Russians, and target China.
If even then.
Ryan @ 15:
Thanks for the leg-up, I just joined you.
CAN THE BLUE DOGS GET NANCY TO STOP THIS? I’D FEEL A WHOL LOT BETTER IF THEY COULD!
Top Middle East military commander resigns
Adm. Fallon had run Central Command, called ‘difficult to replace’
updated 20 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Adm. William Fallon is stepping down as head of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees military matters in the Middle East, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Tuesday.
Gates said that Adm. William J. Fallon had asked for permission to retire and that Gates agreed. Gates said the decision, effective March 31, was entirely Fallon’s and that Gates believed it was “the right thing to do.”
Fallon was the subject of an article published last week in Esquire magazine that portrayed him as opposed to President Bush’s Iran policy. It described Fallon as a lone voice against taking military action to stop the Iranian nuclear program.
♣Bangkok Bob♣ @ 20:
Ten bucks… that will get me TO work.
22 EliteLemming
Do dogs ever thank each other for giving each other a leg up?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFMqV2FfPNk
ysbaddaden @ 23:
That link better be STATE SANCTIONED torture.
CoIntelPro - against Repug Moles in the Democratic Party @ 21:
I guess that means I’m gonna need more duct tape . .
CoIntelPro - against Repug Moles in the Democratic Party @ 14:
So according to you we should nominate people (other than the Democratic incumbent)who are liberal in districts that are outright conservative and expect the people to elect a liberal even though they’re conservative?
House Steers Its Own Path on Wiretaps By ERIC LICHTBLAU
House Democratic leaders are readying a proposal that would reject giving legal protection to the phone companies that helped in a wiretapping program.
CD @ 6:
which then begs the question, what is a democrat?
if it is simply having a “D” next to the name then this strategy might work. but if there is any sense of ideology or party platform behind that “D” then one must question those that call themselves dems but continue to run cover for undemocratic ideals (as in the democratic party).
and, i guess i would rather have honest gridlock then a bunch of blue dogs capitulating to GOP pressure, over and over again. i would rather see a true filibuster, a walkout, anything, if it meant standing up for civil rights, legal rights, human rights, environmental rights. but, as glenn greenwald astutely points out, the blue dogs have not stood up for our rights the way i would hope the democratic party would demand they did.
♣Bangkok Bob♣ @ 20:
Same here.
Samson- @ 28:
Thing is that with conservative Democrats party leaders can twist their arm if the vote is important enough.
Remember we got even Ben Nelson to vote for the redeployment bill.
CD @ 6:
Then let it go to the GOP. Many will not. In any case Democratic gains in the House are assured this fall and will give the Democrats a Functional majority for the first time in quite awhile.
CD @ 26:
Usually, to perform the vulcan mind meld, you need to attach three fingers to my head. since that is not possible, I wonder how you gleaned what you presumed are my thoughts.
BTW, 23 repugs are NOT running for re-election, Denny Hastert’s seat just went to a Democratic candidate after the repugs spent over $1,000,000. So I think that there are quite a few repug seats on the market and the fact that the repug trolls in Dem disguise were elected as Democratic candidates, they have a great chance of getting blown out by Blue america candidates. Since that has been happening, I’d say the idea of replacing fake Democrats with real Democrats is more than a strong possibility.
How many photo ops do you expect busch to participate in? would you pose with him?
Richard @ 31:
You’d be ok with losing control of the house?
CoIntelPro - against Repug Moles in the Democratic Party @ 32:
Don’t assume that we’ll be able to take all 23.
I got the email on this story too. Great idea whose time has come and come and come again. We need to jettison ALL these kinds of “democrats”. I am just upset that this effort is narrowed to a half a dozen jerks.. from the South of course.
CoIntelPro - against Repug Moles in the Democratic Party @ 32:
FYI and a wish for your thoughts… Scarburough said on “Real Time” that we would win more than 60 seats in the senate this year. Your thoughts?
I can’t read any of those signatures on the letter in January (I can’t make out their handwriting). Was Bill Nelson of Florida on there? Or Vern Buchanan? They both voted for retroactive immunity in February if memory serves me correctly.
I just got quoted on the C&L front page for the first time :)
Time to go back to my real name: Ryan Hussein. Yippee!
Yea, I got an email from those folks and I have yet to respond…Mainly because when I checked they didn’t have DiFi’s name included… I may yet support this move as it apparently has some chance to change the nature of this issue.. But I am greatly disappointed that Feinstein isn’t among those to be targeted… She may not be as obvious a target as those self proclaimed bluedogs, but make no mistake.. She has, in her own unique way, become another shill for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney…. And she fully deserves to have her ass called on the carpet too! JD
Bad idea letting courts decide whether a phone company can be sued with all the appointments that bush has made, the entire justice system has been perverted.
Didn’t Democrats just recently replace some Democrats who were Democrats in name only but cowered in front of Bush?
EliteLemming @ 24:
Here’s another link for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3CtlvMA90
CD @ 6:
<blockquoteThere are districts were a Blue Dog is as good as we’re going to get.
That isn’t true. Better Democrats can get elected any where one of these Blue Dogs is getting in. The hard part is finding them.
Blue Dogs aren’t just dark red spots on a U.S. map. There’s a Blue Dog next to my district, Jane Harmon, and she is just as much of a Dog as the ones in Alabama. We nearly removed her in 2004, but the candidate who tried (Marci Winograd) is unwilling to run because of outstanding debts from the previous run.
The point in mentioning Marci is that what it takes to defeat Blue Dogs is CASH. It’s not true that we can’t get better Dems in those districts — we can — but it is expensive, and takes public pocketbook support.
EliteLemming @ 36: