I am *so glad* you're around. I barely have to listen to KPOJ anymore, with your updates.

Gordon Smith, harumpth. Not gonna waste the bandwidth.

Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley last night on Countdown:

youtube.com/watch

I have voted the straight Democratic ticket for 27 years except for a once-every-six years ballot for Mark Hatfield. No more. No way. No how. No more time or money for the gaping maw of the Two Headed Republicrat Beast.

Gordon Smith's vote doesn't surprise me in the least. He's a plutocratic authoritarian tool and always has been.

I'm most disappointed with the junior Senator from Illinois. Obama finally had a chance to lead. He had promised that he would filibuster any bill which included telco immunity. As nominee and probable future President he could have shown that he takes his word and Oath to the Constitution seriously, leads, and has some principles.

Instead, he helped the Republicans and 17 spineless Democratic traitors hand George Bush what the GOP called "more than we could have hoped for". That makes an absolutely unbroken record of the Democratic Party supporting every measure in the last seven years that cuts away at our most precious liberties.

Damn him.
Damn the Democratic Party.
And G-d Bless Ron Wyden for standing up for the Rule of Law, the Constitution and our most precious freedoms.