At FDL, Jane Hamsher is on Code Red alert status:
According to the ACLU, there is rumor of a backroom deal being brokered by Jay Rockefeller on FISA that will include retroactive immunity. I’ve heard from several sources that Steny Hoyer is doing the dirty work on the House side, and some say it will be attached to the new supplemental.
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Heylaydee) said last week that he would attach a measure updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to the war spending bill, in order to get House Democratic leaders to take up a version of the bill that was passed with bipartisan support in the Senate.
No doubt Hamsher is already looking for a Hoyer-Rockefeller picture to Photoshop.
The Hamster links to this piece:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/360945_telecom29.html
Hilarious. Don’t miss the comments.
Better to do an end run around Pelosi late than never I guess.
PT
Wow, BMoe! Talk about a gaggle of paranoid goonybirds.
I want to sneak up behind one and yell “BOO!” just to watch the anticipated overwrought reaction
Eeek. The comments over at the PI are just too precious. Paraphrasing:
“I trust the government to educate my children, to assure the safety of my food and water and medicine, and to protect me from criminals. I’d really like to trust the government to provide medical care to me and my family, as well.
But phone calls and e-mails? POLICE STATE! POLICE STATE!”
<snork>
A deal for TELCO immunity?
BushApologists need closure.
When I first saw the headline of this post the immediate thought was how long would it take before semi-conscious drove by to leave her signature snark and derision.
VOILA!!
A bipartisan deal for TELCO immunity?
The BushApologists are more widespread than Miss Cleo realizes.
aw, my money was on IJS, BJTexs. oh well, the site was wonky most of the day aaaand the day ain’t over yet. ;D
Yea, all of WordPress went Kaplooey for several hours today. That’s the second time in three days.
Somebody got some splainin’ to do.
“The BushApologists are more widespread than Miss Cleo realizes.”
They are Legion.
In fact, by Miss Cleo’s standards, the guy who threw the grenade at Bush is a BushApologist.
‘Cause it didn’t go off.
Actually, that Georgian fellow was upset Bush hadn’t done more on the war on terror, if memory serves me.
No trollbats? We may have won this one.
nah, they were probably all busy today, B Moe. lots o’ protest opportunities. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
No, that fellow was me — and I’m not really Georgian, I just happen to live in metro Atlanta.
The guy with the grenade, he was mad because Dubya didn’t sign Kyoto.
Is that Troy McClure? I think I remember him from such independent films as “Loose Change,” “Waco: The Rules of Engagement,” and “Revisionist History for Fun and Profit.”
Vladimir Arutinian, who threw the grenade, has refused to give a motive.
RTO, you’re no fun.