Court nixes suit against spying program

Majority
53 Circuit Judge Alice M. Batchelder G.H.W. Bush
59 Circuit Judge Julia Smith Gibbons G.W. Bush

Minority
58 Circuit Judge Ronald Lee Gilman Clinton

John Edwards is great!
- Sam Spencer, BlueNC, 7/3/07

There is no accountability, at any level, for these guys. Unfrickin' unbelievable.

CitizenWill
there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. MLK,Jr. to SCLC Leadership Class

and the Oval Office, the only thing they needed to complete the coup d'état was to rig the courts. The fallout is that IF we can take back Congress fully as well as the White House (assuming we can get Dems to show up in absolutely cheat-proof margings), we will still be watching criminals walk free for another 30 years.

Unless -- and it's a really long "unless" -- we can get our legislators to legislate correctly and with unassailable language. For thirty years now, Republicans have let one criminal after another walk free after committing egregious crimes and atrocities. Quite often, the criminals continue in government or get their own TV shows on Faux. Remnants of the same bunch that got us into Korea, then Viet Nam make up the same bunch that got us into Iran-Contra and sales of arms to Iraq, who are much of the same players who got us into Bush's Folly in Iraq. If we keep criminals in government, why should we expect our government to be involved in anything except criminality?

Just askin', seeing as this is exactly what we have going on.

Until BushCo, the courts were the last bastion of hope for a moral and just government. I'm afraid that's completely over with now.

If we ever expect America to wrest itself from the mire of repetitive assaults on its integrity, its people and its Constitution, our legislators must be willing to pursue full, to-the-bone investigations and punishment. I haven't been a fan of impeachment, but I've become completely convinced that it is imperative to remove Cheney, then Bush, then Congress must purge the still-unpunished Reps and Senators who were on the take from Abramoff.

Then we must all go after the ideologues in the court system. Every last one. We have to be willing to bleed this sickness completely out of our political system, else, I fear, that America as we knew it is dead and the Constitution irreparably overturned, handed away to the corporate thieves and "religious" nuts.

That's not an America in which I'd care to live. No patriot would.

"The most unamerican thing you can say is 'You can't say that'" - G. Keillor

This is my disappointment with the Dems reluctance to impeach BushCo. Yes, impeachment is a political process but it is also a demonstration of a commitment to the high ideals of our Constitution. We need to say that this behaviour is unacceptable - NOW and in the future. The punishment meted out must send a clear message that our country is not ruled by kleptocracy, that the electorate is capable of policing the powers that be and that these egregious violations carry severe consequences.

Unfortunately, the Dems in their rush to seize defeat from the jaws of victory continue the "play it safe" policy that cost Gore and Kerry their place in the Sun. It is every Congresspersons duty, under the Constitution, to rise up against this perfidy but since the Republican leadership seems quite complicit in these crimes, it's up to the Dems to get a backbone and not let this stand.

That said, it appears the Dems ARE laying the groundwork

The administration has not said when or if it will respond. Spokesman Scott Stanzel said Thursday the White House has received a many requests for information since Democrats took control of Congress in January and has turned over 200,000 pages of documents.

"They've launched over 300 investigations, had over 350 requests for documents and interviews and they have had over 600 oversight hearings in just about 100 days," Stanzel said.

Democrats were dubious of the figures but did not offer their own.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070705/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_subpoenas_6&prin...

CitizenWill
there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. MLK,Jr. to SCLC Leadership Class