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McCain v. The Pentagon

You gotta love this guy...okay yes, he stuck to party loyalties during the campaign, but you gotta give the guy credit for calling Bush out on The Swift Boat Ads and now for looking into the Pentagon's move to "reinterpret U.S. law to give Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld broad authority over spy operations abroad..." What is it with Republicans...all right, even I can't generalize this...with the WHITE HOUSE REPUBLICANS and their need to "reinterpret" laws til they work juuust for them? Another reason to keep Alberto Gonzalez out of the Attorney General seat as he has been all too willing to do just that since W. was Goveror in Texas.

And speaking of the Penatagon...if you hadn't heard already (it had been discussed on Nightline many moons ago when discussing ties of this group to Abu Ghraib and other prisoner abuse), the Pentagon has "an intelligence-gathering and support unit that has authority to operate clandestinely anywhere in the world where it is ordered to go in support of anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism missions..." Basically, they are the black-ops of Intelligence gatherers...the problem is, these guys have no rules, and if they feel torture is the way to get info, they don't have to report to anyone right away in order to do it. Rumsfeld is one of the key people involved here (hence more reasoning for McCain tobe looking into Pentagon doings) and you can see the rest of the story at:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/23/pentagon.intel/index.html

And speaking of people who could be involved with all this, it's official, the Democrats have indeed stalled the vote on Condi's Senate approval.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/01/24/democrats_stall_vote_on_rice_confirmation/

IN THE MEANTIME...

In the "things George doesn't want to hear category": The New York Times has this article on how, due to the power the Republicans have right now, this bubble really could burst as Republicans themselves are doubting Bush's agenda:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/politics/24repubs.html?ex=1264222800&en=cc6adfb3710ce64f&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

George may also not want to hear how Olympia Snowe of Maine has "misgivings" about his plan for Social Security, particularly as she is on the Finance Committee:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31171-2005Jan23.html

And one must go to www.Wonkette.com for "recollections" from the Inauguration, which includes this moment:

"As we marched along side fellow democrats towards the parade a very well dressed republican family (obviously from Texas) walked by. The youngest child- a girl no more than 8 shouted at the crowd 'Democrats kill babies' -- her family chuckled as they walked away. Without missing a beat a woman smiled and shouted back 'to bad you weren't one of them.'

It was a lovely moment"

How do we keep lovely moments coming? KEEP E-MAILING!!! E-mail, call, write, fax your friends and family, your Congressfolk and the Press as they NEED to know that YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION!! And it looks like some are actually listening, so keep it going! And as always pass it on, pass it on, pass it on!

Speaking of Lovely Moments...YEA, PATS!! We're going BACK to the Superbowl! Yee Ha, baby!

Peace --Alex

posted by funkweee @ 8:25 AM