Telcom Companies gave $8K to Democrats who changed their vote on FISA

I do believe that if Keith Olbermann doesn’t do a special comment, he will do a segment on it tomorrow.

Quote:

Last week, on June 20, the House of Representatives approved a compromise bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA). The bill sets new electronic surveillance rules that effectively shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits resulting from the government’s warrantless eavesdropping on phone calls and viewing of emails of private citizens in the U.S. Approximately 40 lawsuits have been filed with potential damages totaling in the billions of dollars.
On March 14 of this year the House passed an amendment that rejected retroactive immunity for phone carriers who helped the National Security Agency carry out the illegal wiretapping program without proper warrants. Ninety-four House Democrats voted in favor of this measure–rejecting immunity–on March 14, then ‘changed’ to vote in favor of the June 20 House bill–approving immunity.
“Why did these ninety-four House members have a change of heart?” asked Daniel Newman, executive director of MAPLight.org, “Their constituents deserve answers.” – SPOTLIGHT: Telco PACs Gave $8K to Dems Who Changed Their Vote on FISA – (via MAPLight.org)

This does not surprise me in the least. Special interest has been a part of Politics and Washington D.C. for a long time. Obama claims that he is fighting against this, but I somehow doubt it.

The List of sell outs is:

1	29500	Clyburn, James	SC-6
2	29000	Hoyer, Steny	MD-5
3	28000	Emanuel, Rahm	IL-5
4	27500	Boucher, Frederick	VA-9
5	26000	Meeks, Gregory	NY-6
6	24500	Crowley, Joseph	NY-7
7	24500	Pelosi, Nancy	CA-8
8	24000	Bean, Melissa	IL-8
9	22500	Edwards, Thomas	TX-17
10	22100	Baca, Joe	CA-43
11	21500	Engel, Eliot	NY-17
12	19000	Bishop, Sanford	GA-2
13	18500	Moore, Dennis	KS-3
14	18500	Spratt, John	SC-5
15	18500	Thompson, Bennie	MS-2
16	16000	Melancon, Charles	LA-3
17	15500	Cuellar, Henry	TX-28
18	15500	Stupak, Bart	MI-1
19	15000	Ackerman, Gary	NY-5
20	14800	Butterfield, George	NC-1
21	14300	Tanner, John	TN-8
22	14000	Kind, Ronald	WI-3
23	13500	Barrow, John	GA-12
24	13500	Gordon, Barton	TN-6
25	12500	Costa, Jim	CA-20
26	12500	Ross, Mike	AR-4
27	12000	Green, Al	TX-9
28	12000	Hinojosa, Rubén	TX-15
29	11000	Cardoza, Dennis	CA-18
30	11000	Schiff, Adam	CA-29
31	10000	Boswell, Leonard	IA-3
32	9000	Boyd, F.	FL-2
33	9000	Tauscher, Ellen	CA-10
34	8500	Skelton, Ike	MO-4
35	8000	Ellsworth, Brad	IN-8
36	7500	Gutierrez, Luis	IL-4

37	7500	Rahall, Nick	WV-3
38	7000	Harman, Jane	CA-36
39	7000	Langevin, James	RI-2
40	7000	Lipinski, Daniel	IL-3
41	7000	Reyes, Silvestre	TX-16
42	6500	Matheson, Jim	UT-2
43	6500	Scott, David	GA-13
44	6500	Wilson, Charles	OH-6
45	6000	Cleaver, Emanuel	MO-5
46	6000	Etheridge, Bob	NC-2
47	6000	Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie	SD-0
48	6000	Salazar, John	CO-3
49	5500	Hastings, Alcee	FL-23
50	5500	McCarthy, Carolyn	NY-4
51	5500	McIntyre, Mike	NC-7
52	5000	Davis, Artur	AL-7
53	5000	Murtha, John	PA-12
54	5000	Ortiz, Solomon	TX-27
55	4500	Brown, Corrine	FL-3
56	4500	Donnelly, Joe	IN-2
57	4000	Berman, Howard	CA-28
58	4000	Bishop, Timothy	NY-1
59	4000	Dicks, Norman	WA-6
60	4000	Lowey, Nita	NY-18
61	4000	Mahoney, Tim	FL-16
62	3000	Murphy, Patrick	PA-8
63	3000	Smith, Adam	WA-9
64	2500	Arcuri, Michael	NY-24
65	2000	Altmire, Jason	PA-4
66	2000	Castor, Kathy	FL-11
67	2000	Chandler, Ben	KY-6
68	2000	Giffords, Gabrielle	AZ-8
69	2000	Higgins, Brian	NY-27
70	2000	McNerney, Jerry	CA-11
71	2000	Mitchell, Harry	AZ-5
72	2000	Pomeroy, Earl	ND-0
73	2000	Sherman, Brad	CA-27
74	2000	Sires, Albio	NJ-13
75	1000	Berkley, Shelley	NV-1
76	1000	Boyda, Nancy	KS-2
77	1000	Gillibrand, Kirsten	NY-20
78	1000	Kanjorski, Paul	PA-11
79	1000	Kildee, Dale	MI-5
80	1000	Klein, Ron	FL-22
81	1000	Perlmutter, Ed	CO-7
82	1000	Rodriguez, Ciro	TX-23
83	1000	Space, Zackary	OH-18
84	0	Baird, Brian	WA-3

85	Berry, Robert	AR-1
86	Marshall, James	GA-8
87	Peterson, Collin	MN-7
88	Richardson, Laura	CA-37
89	Ruppersberger, C.A.	MD-2
90	Sestak, Joe	PA-7
91	Snyder, Victor	AR-2
92	Taylor, Gene	MS-4
93	Udall, Mark	CO-2
94	Yarmuth, John	KY-3

Unbelievable. So much for the Democrat’s idea of new politics, all this talk of hope and change, is nothing more than a well orchestrated sham.

Others: Firedoglake, The Washington Independent, DownWithTyranny!, The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room and Wake up America and more via Memeorandum

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Jaw dropping cool Obama Video.

I know the most of you have heard the song, “Black President”, by NAS.

Well, here is supporter made video for it. Note, this is not the official Video. This was made by someone with Video Editing software.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzQgAdhWT1E&hl=en&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]

I hate to say it, but John McCain doesn’t have a prayer in hell in winning this election.If this video is indication of the desire for change in this country, and If the current polls are any indication, I do not look for a Conservative to be in the White House for a very long time. Thanks to Bush and his Neo-Conservative idiotic nonsense, Conservativism is being run to the rat holes.

Thank you George W. Bush, you bastard.

Others: The Moderate Voice, The Other McCain, Top of the Ticket, Hot Air, Salon, Reason Magazine, Think Progress, The Corner, TIME.com, Slog, The Swamp, Donklephant, Mercury Rising, Patterico’s Pontifications, Daily Kos, Marc Ambinder, American Street, RADAMISTO, Wonkette, Commentary, MyDD, Spin Cycle, The Talent Show, TPM Election Central, Boston Globe, Martini Revolution, Real Clear Politics and Eschaton and more via Memeorandum

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From the Dept. of "Ya Think?"

A new report says what Keith Olbermann and many other “Liberal” media types said long ago…

This should be enough cause to Conservatives to NEVER, EVER pick a Neo-Conservative for a Presidential candidate.

Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.
The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year’s scandal over the firings of nine United States attorneys. It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration.
“Many qualified candidates” were rejected for the department’s honors program because of what was perceived as a liberal bias, the report found. Those practices, the report concluded, “constituted misconduct and also violated the department’s policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliations.”– Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Department – NYTimes.com

Now, I’m just waiting for some person from some Conservative Blog to come here and tell me I’m wrong.

Technorati Tags: Bush, White House, Neo-Conservatives, Politics, Opinion,

Blogs 4 Borders! 06/23/08

It’s time for the Blogs 4 Borders VBlog.

In this weeks edition…

The Other War: As Mexico melts down are we next?

100% Preventable! Americans continue to pay the bloody price for open borders. When will the madness end?

John Monti’s false accusers take a second bite at the apple, we report and tell you what you can do to help!

Download for your ipod here.

As mentioned in the final story our friend John Monti is facing yet another bogus legal challenge (learn more here) and he could use our support. Make sure to join his Facebook group and hit the tip jar!

If you’d like to sponsor a show contact us here.

This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs
For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border
security and a sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join find out how right here.

Speaking of Illegal Immigration, check out what our feckless
Government is doing, instead of deporting the Criminal Illegal
Immigrants, they’re deporting Catholic Priests, and Protestant pastors: (via WorldnetDaily.com)

U.S. immigration authorities have stepped up
deportations, but rather than pursue illegal aliens, they have chosen
to evict America’s church ministers from the country instead.
Honesty could cost Christian pastor Keith Thomas his citizenship
because he cooperated with immigration officials, disclosing two minor
marijuana convictions he incurred when he was a young man in England 33
years ago.
Thomas, 53, is working without pay, fearing deportation from the
U.S. and separation from his family. He was denied a green card based
on convictions that were expunged in 1982. Thomas told WND he has
documentation to prove his clean record since the 1975 conviction and
that he has always been truthful with officials, but he doesn’t
understand why people who enter the country illegally are allowed to
stay when he is facing the citizenship battle of his life.
“They’ve let 12 million illegals into the country, yet somebody has
been doing some good, paying taxes, came in legally and has been
married to an American for 27 years and has two American kids, and
they’re going to kick him out?” Thomas asked. “I told the truth. Nobody
called me out on my past. If I had not even owned up to my record, the
government would not have been able to find any of it.”

Nice… your Tax dollars at work!

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More Blantant Neo-Conservative Stupidity…

David Brooks proves the depth of his blatant stupidity…

The arguments floating around the op-ed pages and seminar rooms were overwhelmingly against the idea of a surge — a mere 20,000 additional troops would not make a difference. The U.S. presence provoked violence, rather than diminishing it. The more the U.S. did, the less the Iraqis would step up to do. Iraq was in the middle of a civil war, and it was insanity to put American troops in the middle of it.
When President Bush consulted his own generals, the story was much the same. Almost every top general, including Abizaid, Schoomaker and Casey, were against the surge. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was against it, according to recent reports. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki called for a smaller U.S. presence, not a bigger one.
In these circumstances, it’s amazing that George Bush decided on the surge. And looking back, one thing is clear: Every personal trait that led Bush to make a hash of the first years of the war led him to make a successful decision when it came to this crucial call. – The Bush Paradox by DAVID BROOKS (via New York Times)

Here’s the problem with that ol’ Davie Boy. The move to the “surge” was made about 5 years too damn late. Not even to mention the multiple moving of the goal posts for the very reason of this war. This is just another rather lame attempt to justify this unconstitutional war.

Others: Commentary, Martini Revolution, GINA COBB, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Pundit, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Betsy’s Page, Connecting.the.Dots and The Mahablog (via Memeorandum)

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Sorry Feith, A screw up, is a screw up!

Douglass Feith attempts to justify a screw up.

Everyone now knows that the CIA’s intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was deeply flawed. (It was a diplomatic and political disaster that Rice and all the other top Bush administration officials relied on erroneous intelligence – though they did so in good faith.) Rice deserves credit for stressing here the gaps and uncertainties in U.S. intelligence – The Corner on National Review Online

The only thing rice deserves credit for is knowingly disseminating bad (some say false, but I digress…) intelligence to the American people.

In other words, A screw up, is a screw up, is a screw up. There is NO justifying it at all. Period.

Others:
Think Progress, The Washington Independent, Sadly, No! and Attackerman

Technorati Tags: Bush, Iraq, War, Politics, Conservative, White House, CIA Intelligence,

Anti-Obama attack Ad.

John McCain’s flunky Michael Goldfarb says that there’s no Conservative 527’s?

Well, exactly do you call, this?

If that isn’t a 527 attack ad, can someone please explain to me, what is?

Technorati Tags: Obama, Politics, Opinion, Conservative, Liberal, Election 2008, election 08,

Francis H. Powers Staten Island G.O.P. Candidate Dies

This via the Corner:

This comes via the NYT:

The candidate endorsed by Republican leaders to run for a Congressional seat being vacated by Representative Vito J. Fossella died on Sunday morning at his home in Staten Island, party leaders said.
The candidate, Francis H. Powers, a board member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, was a retired Wall Street executive and an active contributor to Republican candidates. Mr. Powers, 67, died in his sleep of natural causes, family members said.
“As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family,” Mr. Powers’s son, Brian, said in a statement. “We would appreciate privacy at this time as we make the necessary arrangements.”
Mr. Powers had been selected to run in the November election to succeed Mr. Fossella, who has held the seat since 1997 but who decided not to run for re-election after a personal scandal emerged. Mr. Fossella is the only Republican representing New York City in Congress.

And of course…:

National Democratic leaders have made it clear that they view winning the seat, which has been in Republican hands for 28 years, as a priority. Earlier this month, Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, visited New York to say his party would do “whatever is necessary to win this campaign.”

I wonder what that would be? Maybe like make up lies and smear people and publish pamphlets with false info on them?

Technorati Tags: Francis H. Powers, Politics, Democrats, Liberals, Opinion, Republicans,

Some Sad News from Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty

This is truly some very sad news.

Quote:

The Ron Paul family received some truly sad news yesterday. Eric Davenport, one of the Presidential Campaign’s most important volunteers, was tragically killed in a traffic accident over the weekend. Eric and his young wife, Danielle, spent countless hours working in the South Florida RP ‘08 headquarters. Together, they made hundreds of calls, stuffed thousands of envelopes and walked neighborhoods tirelessly supporting liberty. They even took an extended leave of absence from their jobs so they could support Dr. Paul full time.
The Davenport’s committment to the campaign was hard on the families pocketbook, and Eric’s untimely death leaves Danielle and their two small boys facing tremendous financial hardship. We can’t bring Eric back, but we can help these good people in their time of need.
Dr. Paul and Carol today sent Danielle a personal check. This money is a nice start, but your help is also needed. Any contribution, large or small, would be tremendously appreciated.
For privacies sake, I am not posting the families address on our website. Please either mail contributions to 837 West Plantation Drive, Clute, TX 77531 and we will forward them, or call our office at 979-265-3034 to get the address from our staff. Checks should be made out to Danielle Davenport.
Thank you for reading, I hope you can help – Freedom lovers in need - (Via Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty)

Thoughts and Prayers to the Davenport Family and to those in the Ron Paul campaign that knew them.

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Obama says G.O.P. will play race card, and this is news?

Barry had better get off this crap or The Democrats will look like idiots, just like they did in 2000 and 2004.

As far as the race card goes, you ain’t heard none of McCain’s surrogates saying crap like, “God Damn America” or “America’s chickens are coming home, to roost.” not even a week after 9/11.

You see, this is why we screwed up in 1964. When we gave the Black Race the special law that we gave them, which my favorite senator and Hero, Barry Goldwater Sr. refused to sign, saying that one could not legislate morality. Not satisfied with that, we gave them their own Holiday, to honor a Communist sympathizer, and immoral degenerate. Now they, being the Black Race, want to rule the damn country, and will ride into the White House, and if ANY conservative tries to bring up his liberal record or any of his polices. They will be painted as a racist bigot. Yeah, I said it, I’m proud of it. We gave them freedom, and they now they want the White Race to shrink in fear. A classic example of “Give ’em an inch, they’ll take a damn mile….”

Sometimes I truly believe, that Trent Lott was absolutely correct.

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