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Nobody'll be surprised to hear that Sen. Jay Rockefeller, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and co-conspirators are once again working their tails off to hand Bush cart blanche to spy on American citizens, immunize the telecoms for their illegal participation in same, and generally put our civil rights in the same league as those in Zimbabwe.
Regarding the telecoms, wasn't it Hoyer who signed a letter asking Bush not to pardon Scooter Libby because equal treatment under the law is so fundamentally important to our judicial system?
This time around, a coalition of Left & liberty-embracing Right blogs*, plus the ACLU, are working together on a joint project. Click the link at left for Glenn Greenwald's usual excellent explanation, but the short version is ads to target Steny Hoyer for his enabling of the legislation. You, too, can help. And it's already becoming a very big deal: nearly 2500 donors have raised about $140K since 1:30 p.m. this (Tuesday) afternoon. [correction -- Greenwald is saying $60k, so the ActBlue page I link to must have had a previous life. This means fewer than 2500 donors, too. Still, very impressive for less than 24 hours]
What I find particularly galling this time around is that, per Greenwald, Hoyer has apparently organized enough votes to pass the thing in the House, but along with Pelosi will vote against it so as not to look bad. Meanwhile, some of our friends in the Senate won't stand in the way of passage either. That, apparently, is what Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Hoyer, Majority Leader Reid, and Majority Whip Durbin call "leadership."
I call it crap.
So, I sent in my 25 bucks for the campaign this evening. I'll be making some calls to the Dem. leadership in the a.m. (EFF's got talking points if you need 'em) Join the fun! Time for more andbetter Democrats!
P.S. ... Anyone have any idea how Ken Salazar will vote if this thing comes to the floor of the Senate?
*These are the participants I could discern as of Tuesday evening (I reckon there'll be many more, shortly):
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