Yearly Archives 2005

I was bummed when I didn't see any Senatorial blogging during Congress's Rule 21 session a couple weeks ago. But late this week Jordan sent me Sen. Russ Feingold's post on the Daily Kos about his plans to fight for real reform to the Patriot Act. This is the kind of blogging I was talking about. A real update on what happened from the Senator's perspective, and what he's planning to do. Plus this very eDemocracy closer: My work has been informed by some of the comments you have posted about issues on this site and I ask you today to give me some feedback about reauthorizing the Patriot Act.  I appreciate your input Feingold is in a bipartisan group of six Senators who have helped short-circuit what looked like a White House hijack of the Patriot renewal process. And in a sign that the forces of real reform aren't…

Now this is more like it. Nice to see the Democrats toss out the prissy playbook that says 'Never go to extremes to make a point.' Not sure it helped majority leader Frist much to call the Democrats' secret session move "a slap in the face," though. Will there be pistols at dawn next? Rule 21 says ...

Do NOT tell me that with Scooter Libby hobbling out of the White House we're supposed to sulk home and go back to junta-as-usual. Think for a minute about what sort of indignant, hearing-fomenting, partisan hay the Republican Party would be making out of this historic high-level scandal under a Democratic president. It has been 130 years since a sitting senior White House official was indicted. For anything. An email I got from MoveOn urges members to fight "the battle of public opinion" to help the rest of the scandalous truth to frog-march into the light. But I really hope we haven't already moved from legal investigations to the battlefield of public opinion. We need our elected officials to dig deep for their inner McCarthy, their inner Dornan, and call all the cronies to account. This isn't the time to rest on vindicated laurels that the rule of law has…

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