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Senate to Re-Look Warrantless Wiretapping
Many of us were very critical of warrantless wiretapping as proposed by the Bush Administration. Many of us were also disappointed in our leadership in the FISA struggle last year. As it turns out, we had good reason to be. Now it appears that Americans were illegally wiretapped and the Senate is set to hold hearings on it soon.
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Right-Wing Hatemongers Dream of Secession
You know how Democrats are always being lectured on our patriotism by right-wing zealots. Many Republicans try and paint the Democratic Party as un-American and contend that we hate our own country. Well, something interesting happened at a tea party in Texas yesterday. Despite all the big talk of loving America and being patriotic, Repubicans were actually endorsing seceding from the union. The sad part is one of their "leaders", Texas Gov. Rick Perry actually didn't think it was that bad an idea!!
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Mongiardo Outraises Bunning
More good news came across the wire today for Kentucky Democrats. Jim Bunning, already weakened by his own antics has been further weakened by his fundraising numbers. In the first quarter, despite having less time to do it and not being a seated Senator, Democrat Daniel Mongiardo outraised the soon-to-be Senator of Kentucky.
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Keith Olbermann Special Comment: On FISA and Telecom Immunity, Youtube video.

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
February 1, 2008
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Excerpt From Keith Olbermann's Special Commentary on FISA, January 31, 2008:
In a Presidency of hypocrisy, an Administration of exploitation, a labyrinth of leadership, in which every vital fact is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma hidden under a claim of executive privilege supervised by an idiot, this one is surprisingly easy.
President Bush has put, protecting the Telecom giants from the laws…ahead of protecting you from the terrorists.
He has demanded an extension of the FISA law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but only an extension that includes retroactive immunity for the Telecoms who helped him spy on us.
Congress has given him, and he has today signed, a fifteen day extension, which simply kicks the time bomb down the field, and has changed nothing of his insipid rhetoric, in which he portrays the Democrats as 'soft on terror' and getting in the way of his Superhuman efforts to protect the nation... when, in fact, and with bitter irony, if anybody is 'soft on terror' here it is Mr. Bush

Will Harry Reid Honor Chris Dodd’s Hold On The Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act?

Hillbilly Report
Glendale, Kentucky
October 19, 2007
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Senator Chris Dodd is going to put a hold on Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act. Will Senator Harry Reid honor Chris Dodd's hold like he honored the hold Tom Coburn placed on H.R. 923, the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007, a bill that would have reopened hate crimes cases from before 1970? The Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act of 2007 bill passed the House by a vote of 422-2. (Source: Tom Coburn: The Shame of the Senate)
What the hell is going on here?