What’s going on - News Round up
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by ecthompson
- The President did finally make it to the Midwest to see the problems for himself. Unfortunately, there is more flooding as more levees give way.
- There seems to be a final compromise on immunity for the Telecoms and FISA. Leaders in the House and Senate have some type of agreement. According to Glenn Greenwald who has been on this topic for some time the compromise is worse than we thought. Russ Feingold, who has been right 99.9% of the time, has spoken out against this bill. WE need to stand up, again and kill this bill. The Telecoms should not be able to simply throw money at Congress and get their way.
- Bear Stearns executives have been marched out of their offices in hand cuffs. It seems that the Department of Justice believes that someone has been lying.
- Barack Obama has decided to forgo public financing of his campaign. That maybe because his campaign has already been publicly financed with over 1.6 million donors.
- Brittany Spears’ sister Jamie Lynn Spears (of Nickelodeon fame) has had her first baby at age 17. So, sad.
Update: I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge the death of State Trooper David Blanton here in Asheville. The trooper was making a traffic stop when someone in the car opened fire. A suspect has been arrested and may face the death penalty. Too sad for words.
Where’s the outrage? Well, some of it is in southwest Virginia. I am so angry about certain Democrats in Congress and there so called ‘compromise’, I could piss ink! For folks who have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution, they seem determined to break that vow and be concerned only with covering their own tails, because there was complicity by many of them when the warrantless wiretaps first started.
This MUST be stopped! Why are we allowing our Constitution, our BIRTHRIGHT, to be sullied at every turn by this administration and those in Congress who kowtow to its methods. Torture, spying on decent, honest Americans illegally and giving them no recourse in the courts, protecting the big corporations and a Democratic Congress that is apparently trying its damnedest to flush its integrity down the toilet. No! This is NOT my idea of the American way of doing things.
Write your Congressmen! NO COMPROMISE on the FISA bill!!
Paulette -
I know that Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars have somewhere for you to send money to fight this. I believe that the ACLU and MoveOn.org will also have some response up and going by Friday morning.
If my computer was on the fritz then I would have posted more on FISA.
Thanks