Brian DeBose, Washington Times

Displays typical American ignorance, with the expected Republican Party slant, on subjects like Darfur and Iraq.

Bob Bennett Knows Finance

Bob Bennett, in his Thursday questioning of SEC Chairman Cox, proved that he has a great understanding of aspects of the financial markets. I don't think I've yet heard a Senator who has displayed that kind of grasp of the topic.

John Cornyn on FISA

John Cornyn, one of the stupidest US Senators, adds to the false statements of Warner and Kyl. Cornyn suggests that a corporation would have to consult its lawyers before complying with Federal requests for assistance in the future if this retro-active immunity is not passed. If they'd had a warrant in the first place there'd be no need to provide for retro-active immunity and, there'd be no need to consult a lawyer. There's a truly nasty implication here, too. That the Executive Branch will violate the Constitution, again and again, and each time retroactive immunity will be provided.

Jim DeMint, behind the times

Berkeley, California has undone the work they did to remove the Marine Corps recruiting center from their town. Jim DeMint is still talking about it. The odd thing is, he brings up the food the members of the Armed Services are eating in Iraq. Doesn't he know that we are paying more per meal in Iraq than the program for organic food he criticizes in Berkeley?

Kyl And Warner Want to Enable Constitution Shredding

The President couldn't legally wiretap the people the phone companies wiretapped for him. He couldn't get a warrant to do it. What Senators Warner and Kyl want us to encourage is for the President to be able to ask companies to do things that the President is not allowed to do and make it OK.

Senator Whitehouse Gets Big Smile

Speaking on the idea of applying the Army Field Manual rules on interrogation to a long list of Federal agencies for the rest of FY2008 (1/3 over).

Senator Whitehouse has a graphic of the Spanish Inquisitors waterboarding people. Brilliant!

They have been [subjected]

Kit Bond, debate on the "Limit the CIA to interrogation techniques described in the Army Field Manual" amendment debate to the FISA bill. Says that only a third of the hundred or so people CIA has held "have been suh[pause] submitted to" the techniques in question. Is the implication that if we only do heinous things once in a while, it is OK?

David Rivkin, Former Justice Department Official, Reagan Administration

     Shame on Mr. Rivkin.  What he said was that the war onterror" was "not just some, minor" law enforcement issue.  Has anyone on Earth said it was just any old law enforcement issue?  Or, even more damning, a "minor" law enforcement issue?

     The purpose of this post is to shame Mr Rifkin.

Virginians Butcher History

     Right wing types praise Locke, and never seem to understand Montesquieu.  What [Katherine] says is that "virtue" is required for a Republic.  Does Montesquieu say this?  No.  Not only that, she doesn't say anything about Montesquieu, but refers to the "teachers of Montesquieu," as if he was some sort of scribe of previous greatness.

     Montesquieu does say virtue is required for a Democratic-Republic, sometimes called today "direct democracy."  But that's not what we have, [Katherine], inadvertent right wing stooge.

     Then Barbara Clark Smith lies about virtue.  Lies about what the Founders thought virtue meant.  She is telling the defenseless (no TV stations of their own) people that .

     Smith would have served her listeners better if she hadn't skipped the role of credit in pre-17th century Continental European wars.  She makes it sound like Britain invented it. 

     Smith is killing me on the definition of patriot.  She asserts it was about debt financing of a military state.  Read the Declaration of Independence and you'll see nothing about this. 

     Strangely, although Smith doesn't seem to understand virtue, she does have a good grasp of the trade boycotts and the power of them, the state of public manufactures in the Colonies and other promising things.

     There was a nice part about the rich no longer attending the theatres, and not using funerals for an opportunity to show off clothes.

     McGarvie, however, the other speaker, is a sick fascist.

Senator Mike Enzi (R-Why?), Self Contradiction

Senator Enzi says that people are, on average, going to change _careers_ (not just jobs) 10 times in their lives.  He says that most of the jobs people have had don't even exist anymore.

Let's pretend he is right.

He follows this by saying that we need to train young people better.

How, in freak's sake, is it possible to train a young person for a job that doesn't exist yet, all the while asserting they will have a job which will soon be deprecated?

Just ask Senator Enzi. the economics guru from lalaland.