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Senator Pat Roberts convinced Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee to vote to kill an investigation into the NSA domestic spying scandal. Instead of an investigation, Republican Senators Hagel, Snow and Dewine agreed to create a new subcommittee that would oversee future domestic spying by the NSA.
Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller said that “this is an unprecedented bow to political pressure from the White House.”
The new Atlantic has an article about Bush and his power grab. It’s called:
The Man Who Would be King
Looks like Congress won’t block his coronation.
He also whitewashed the 9/11 commission report, and has never moved onto phase II of it, which is to research whether the Bush administration purposely misused intelligence to lie us into the Iraq War.
Sen. Pat Roberts is a criminal! He is behind all of the killing of investigations into the Bush administration. How does he have so much power? No one is pointing this out in the MSM.
No investigation,….
No oversight,….
No criminal conduct,…
Well that’s a relief ????????????????????????????
An accommodation will also be found for the Dubai deal. The repiglicans in congress are cut off the money if they don’t cooperate, and the democrats must have guns at their heads. There isn’t any other explanation for them to act this way. Our country has been hijacked, and the hijackers still have their weapons out.
They’ve been feeding us enough scary information to keep us afraid to rise up and take our country back. I mean, how many haven’t heard about the Halliburton contract to build a bunch of detention camps "in case of sudden massive influxes of refugees"?
agent99 #4 Said:
"…sudden massive influxes of refugees"
Doesn’t that mean they’re coming in?
What about all of us who are fleeing?
Oh ya – they want to fence the borders, I forgot!
I can’t understand how they keep getting away with this crap!
Come on America – wake up before it is all over!
And they call US traitors! How twisted can America get? I don’t really want to find out. Come on people. Let’s get a plan together. What are we going to do? Oh yeah, I forgot. We’re the only ones playing by the rules.
ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY. LYING MURDEREROUS CRIMINALS say the next White House (after the BUSHIT ADMINISTRATION) will have to ask for permission. Now thats Official news to be swallowed.
$60 million pissed away to find out a Dem had a hummer.. not 1 penny spent to find out if Shrubby is trampling our rights and fucking the Constitution.. nice.
Repugs truely are despicable people.. both the leaders, and any "Republican" who can stand behind those leaders they put in office. Lines are being drawn.. be careful which side you are standing on.
If there WAS an asylum, the lunatics would be running it, but since there is no such institution, they are running amok free and willy-nilly! God help us!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2.../6/21125/68694
of course! 🙁
This is pretty fucked up. Can Republicans be any weaker on national security than they are now? Someone must’ve switched Pat Roberts’ memory pills – he’s straight up trippin if he thinks he’ll get away with this crap.
On a lighter note, I bet this will all make a kick ass movie some day.
Remember This "Chestnut"?
GET CANCER republican senators hagel, snow and dewine roberts . . . You Fucking pieces of shit.
Remember the names!
Rockefeller is half right. It’s a bow to the White House. But it sure isn’t unprecedented.
This has got to be it!!
We simply must do something. Nothing ever gets investigated with one party controlling everything.
Pat Roberts is one big huge snake in the grass. He is always against any investigation of the Bush Baby.
I wrote Hagel about this issue last week and called him on Monday to ask him to vote for an investigation. I should have known when the cameras weren’t rolling he’d vote against an investigation. What a waste of my money to even bother.
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RLM #15
I agree that it is not unpresidented, it happens every day in congress.
Here is an example which shows that congress is a ONE PARTY system, not a two party system, because of fundamental flaws in the laws that regulate congress.
All committees are governed and operated by the majority party.
The majority party gets the chairmanship and the majority of votes on each and every committee in the senate and the house.
The majority party is simply that party which has the greatest number of congress members, whether we are talking senate or house.
No legislation nor oversight can be done by congress except thru committees. If the chairman or the majority members do not want oversight or legislation, the minority members of the committee can do nothing about it.
Concerning the intelligence committee which oversees domestic spying on americans, it was said:
"The committee, to put it bluntly, is basically under the control of the White House through its chairman," said a visibly frustrated Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia, ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee." (link here).
Until congress becomes more democratic by using laws that grant all elected officials there more than a seat to warm, with zero power, this will continue. That much power in the control of any one party is not going to work democracy.
We have a dictatorship by one party which is running roughshod over the other parties.
Lemme guess
DeLay won with 51% of the vote, the others added up to 49%
Not too terribly hard to figure out
Pat Roberts, another betrayer to his oath of office. Perhaps we should put more pressure on the moderate republicans to break ranks such as Ron Paul. McCain has become a waste of time. I used to like Hagel but now he’s gone over to the dark side. Who else can we call on? Tobor the 8th man? There has to be sombody who will stand up to these sorry excuses for representatives.
Pat Roberts is another betrayer of his oath. Perhaps we should put more pressure on moderate republi-cants such as Ron Paul. Hagel has gone over to the dark side. There must be someone we can call on? Tobor the 8th man, maybe? There has to be sombody that will stand up against these poor excuses for representatives.
What exactly is wrong with the people of Texas, voting (supposedly; what did the exit polls say?) in a corrupt politician…AGAIN? Doesn’t it matter to them, all the corruption investigations involving DeLay? Does not matter!
#17
Right….tom delay "won" the election! What a freakin’ surprise.
Who was it who recently made this point?…
that it isn’t so much that they’ve been spying on dissidents–tho that’s probably true–but that they’ve been gathering dirt on anyone they can in Congress so they can keep them in line.
Jesus, it literally makes me want to vomit.
Big Dan – I take affront when you catagorize all Texans in one basket. Editors in Sugar Land have been reporting on Delay since 1998.
But when Bush spends tax payer dollars to come and vote for him, those who want favors will kiss his ass.
But look at our spineless Senators and Congressmen, Rove owns them all from finding skeletons in their closets or paying them off.
Say what you will but strange how ONLY women are coming out with backbone against Katrina handling, Dubai, you name it.
Watch Lou Dobbs, you will get to know who has a backbone.
We are officially a police state now.
Texaslady
Don’t know what you mean by only women coming out against the Dubai deal. Peter King, who I have no great affection for, is one of the strongest voices against the deal. Probably politically motivated since he is one of Bushies strongest backers but we’ll see what comes of it. In the meantime, we still need to focus on getting rid of these damn electronic voting machines. King still isn’t getting my vote (I hope).
Continuing to stay off-topic:
There were no exit polls taken in Texas. The Republicans didn’t want to take the chance that they might embarrass the boss, who they KNEW would win.
On a brighter side, the drive to get enough signatures of non-primary-voters (Save Your Vote for Kinky) to put Kinky Friedman on the ballot for the Governorship (He’s not Kinky — He’s My Governor) is gaining strength every day.
The time is coming. We must be prepared. If they continue their six-year roll of election theft in November 2006, we MUST be prepared to GO TO THE STREETS and TURN THIS AROUND PHYSICALLY!
We must take the Ukrainians as our role models — proof that a people denied the fair counting of their ballots CAN and MUST force the issue through non-violent protest.
November 8, 2006 — the beginning of our last chance to save ourselves. Bring your gas mask — it could get ugly!
Charlie L
Portland, OR
Our primaries are only picking who will run against the other party in November. No one voted Delay back in just that he is allowed to try.
Truly he will be stomped out in November, but since his cronies put him on the Appropriations Committee he can swing deals for the loyal.
Talk about the fox in the hen house !
Wouldn’t it be great if he were in jail by November?
I agree and was most surprised at Pete King’s reversal from staunchly supporting Bush. Wonder if the strong Union on the docks had any input.
The women I’ve seen, Susan Collins, Barbara Boxer, and Nancy Pelosi seem less afraid to speak frankly. Collins even said, Frist is backpedaling from his first stand against the Dubai sale.
Just wonder who will remain standing in 45 days.
Even Delay made a weak comment against the Dubai deal which was only for the cameras I’m certain. He would not turn on his buddy Bush or Rove.
Pelosi is the only one who made Bush acknowledge the Katrina mess when she stormed his office.
Respect the office of the Presidency does not mean giving a blank check to someone who is destroying our country as fast as he can.
When Sen Susan Collins has the courage to say Frist is back pedaling on his original stand against Dubai, and Nancy Pelosi has the courage to confront the President to get off his dead butt and do something.
Don’t understand Pete Kings agenda but hope he will finally rally the good ole boys to remind Bush who pays his salary and can we hope remove him from office.
Dubai’s Port deal extends to ports in Houston, Corpus Christi and Beaumont which ship military hardware to our people all around the world.
Dubai is also planning to buy a company that supplies components for our military aircraft.
Sure don’t know why we should worry tho, Homeland Security will take care of us, like the 1300 people who died in New Orleans.
My country has been hijacked, and none of its passengers are getting up to stop it, even though it’s being flown into a skyscraper.
I’m here and so is Big Dan. We’ll protect from these traitors 99. Annnnd loving it!
#26
Arry,
I believe you’re right. Or very nearly so. Here is a picture of how our government presently handles pretty much everything:
We need a national Strike Day! Enough is Enough!
We need a National Strike Day! Enough is Enough!
We must all hit the streets, stop traffic throughout the country…if our news don’t cover it, call every other country and embarrass these criminals in power!
Together we can stop the flow of $$$$$ the only thing they’ll pay attention to. Not just a protest, but a strong all together block commerce strike day!
That’s not a bad idea but how can we organize it?
Why organize just one day. Take the names of big republican donors and STOP BUYING FROM THEM .why pay taxes when democrats are shut out of the legislative process. It goes much furthur that commitee chairs. Lobbyists write the bills. Delay twists arms in the house or used to for bills that only benefit corporations. I wrote Sen. Snowe about the FISA investigation…she is my senator. I hated that I lost my cool with "After the Alito vote I consider you useless." She caved. There is a man who follows Collins around at public appearances and says’"Why won’t you debate the Iraq war in public?" A group of veterans for peace protested in front of Snowe’s house with,"We will turn you out of office." We will too. Makes the TV news.
#17, #22,
Re anger at Delay’s incredulous re-election.
That’s how the rest of the world felt about us when Bush was re-elected.
Remember that rag from the UK with the headline, "How can 51% be so dumb?!"
It’s because the rest of the world gets real news. They know more than we do.
Charlene #39
I think you know DeLay has not been re-elected, but instead that he has been choosen by republicans in a republican primary to be the republican candidate in November.
That is good for the democratic opponent.
In the election in November he will be opposed by a non-crook honest person, so that is when he will face re-election, and face difficulties.
His opponent was defeated a couple of years ago after DeLay gerrymandered the district boundaries to favor DeLay.
That issue is currently before the Supreme Court and the district could be changed back to be fair to all running in the election.
Anything fair like that is not going to help DeLay.
I am glad he is the republican candidate, because he represents the soul of this rubber stamp republican congress, and they are in political trouble. "Bush registers a 38% approval rating with a 60% disapproval rating.
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