Our Republic needs more and better Democrats. Americans have decided that the conservative government of George W. Bush needs to be forcefully opposed.

Yet, most of the Democratic Party leadership has managed to ignore the mandate for change which the public gave to them. These cowards capitulate pointlessly to a loathed President and allow a criminally corrupted Republican Party to continue to call the shots in Washington.

Their continued failure to fight, truly fight for liberal principles will result in worse anger at their betrayal, worse apathy in our Democratic process, and another 8 years of Republican corruption.

For this reason, I've decided to document their atrocities. In 1776 I said, "Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way." In 2008 we don't need anymore followers. Lead boldly, or, for the sake of our great Nation, please get the hell out of the way.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Feinstein backs legal immunity for telecom firms in wiretap cases

Submitted by Abijah Adams on Fri, 11/09/2007 - 21:49.

Dianne Feinstein

Go ahead and break some laws and let the government clean up after you...because evidently Senator Feinstein is comfortable with that being our new system of justice:

In a statement at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering legislation to extend the Bush administration;s electronic surveillance program, Feinstein said the companies should not be "held hostage to costly litigation in what is essentially a complaint about administration activities."

This is exactly what the Bush administration wants. If the pending lawsuits (filed by Electronic Frontier Foundation) are dismissed because Congress declares AT&T and Verizon immune, we may never find out what really happened with the administration's illegal spying programs.

And the larger outrage is that Feinstein's most recent actions are not isolated. They come in a string of extremely disappointing votes where the senator, because of her seat on the Judiciary Committee, actually had the power to strike down some of the more nefarious points in the Bush agenda.

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