Democratic Devo--a Study in Contrasts

Feingold: Definite Vertebrate

Other Democrats

Blogger has thoroughly stunk every bit as bad as Team Bush's Iraq policy today. This post is already almost 45 minutes in the making...and not just because I was actually able to post photos. Getting to the interface is like watching a Shrub press conference: the equivalent of stammered half responses, tortured grammar and syntax, head shaking, and so on. Pathetic.
Update: actually, the photo post DID fuck up...which had added another 20 minutes. And, of course, not a word on the status page. I'm not surprised.

Anyway, I'll add my voice to the others applauding Senator Russ Feingold's decision to propose a resolution of censure (.pdf) because Smirk-Chimp BROKE THE FUCKING LAW. Plain and simple. Watching the Rethuglicans knucklewalk, pound their chests, and/or hoot/holler is one thing: I expect that from degenerates like Frist, Cornyn, Hutchinson, Santorum, Lieberman...and even Specter.

But watching Democrats slither about on a cut and dried matter like this is truly shameful. I'm STILL amazed that no one has asked a very obvious question: When has a FISA judge not authorized a warrant? That should be a pretty easy to demonstrate--unless Team Bush never bothered to follow the law.

"The War on Terror" (or, as WIIIAI calls it, TWAT), shouldn't preclude highly paid professionals from doing their jobs AND following the laws, particularly since I've yet to see any credible evidence pointing to any difficulties in following the laws. And blather about "aiding the terrorists" is just so much whipped bullshit on a stick.

Besides, the real problem the country faces in regards to intercepting and interpreting "terrorist communications" is a deceptively simple matter of finding fluent Arabic speakers, given that the language itself is difficult to learn...oh, and what someone's taught in college bears as much resemblence to the myriad versions of spoken Arabic as, say, Shakespeare's English bears resemblence to ours.

Which brings up an interesting point: since the administration ADMITS a dearth of capable Arabic speakers, just what the hell ARE they monitoring? And once they admit that they're mostly monitoring English conversations, well, that pretty much blows them out of the water when it comes to matters of national security...I mean, geez--when you stop and think about it, even the SIMPLEST of coded speech would baffle the operation. That, to me, means: they don't actually give a shit about being able to monitor terrorists. Their aim and goal is to stifle dissenting views.

And, like most actions designed to suppress, the active element doesn't need to be extensive. As long as there's THE FEAR of consequence, most folks will suppress themselves. That's what Team Bush, their water-bearing Rethuglicans--and, sadly it seems, their Democratic syncophants--want.

One party, two names? If the Democrats aren't ready to discover their collective lost spines, I don't think they deserve to be given THAT much credit...