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Someone should make a dvd which demonstrates “advise and consent” for the boy King. Never mind.

Friday, March 7th, 2008

No Need for Lawmakers’ Approval of Iraq Pact, U.S. Reasserts
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 6, 2008; Page A18
The Bush administration yesterday advanced a new argument for why it does not require congressional approval to strike a long-term security agreement with Iraq, stating that Congress had already endorsed such an initiative through its 2002 […]

Posted in Congress, Constitution, Bush, Cong-SENATE |

Say it ain’t so, Joe, Barb, Diane, Ben, Ben, Jim, Ken, Mark, Evan, Kent, Jay, Mary, Tim, Claire, Blanche, Debbie, Dan, Herb and Tom.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

HOLDFAST.blog
FISA Vote Tallies: Part II
February 12th, 2008 ·
The Dodd/Feingold Amendment 3907 to strip retroactive immunity from the underlying SSCI bill just failed, 31-67. 51 votes were needed to pass.
Voting with the Republicans were the following eighteen Democrats (again, rough count):
Bayh, Inouye, Johnson, Landrieu, McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, Stabenow, Feinstein, Kohl, Pryor, Rockefeller, Salazar, Carper, […]

Posted in Business, Law, Constitution, Democrats, Cong-SENATE, Communications |

Abracadabra! Bush Makes Privacy Board Vanish–headline WIRED

Monday, February 4th, 2008

By Ryan Singel 02.04.08 | 12:00 AM
The Bush administration has failed to nominate any candidates to a newly empowered privacy and civil-liberties commission. This leaves the board without any members, even as Congress prepares to give the Bush administration extraordinary powers to wiretap without warrants inside the United States.
The failure rankles Sens. Joe Lieberman […]

Posted in Constitution, Bush, Cong-SENATE |

Senator Harry Reid and his 15 spineless colleagues make the weasels in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT look like El Cid, Robin Hood, the Marquis de Lafayette and Abe Lincoln.

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Opinion
THE NATION
Reid Clears Hurdle for Bush-Cheney Spying BillThe Nation Thu Jan 24, 3:24 PM ETThe Nation — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid cleared a key hurdle for the FISA Amendments Act on Thursday, advancing President Bush’s preferred version of the spying bill, a move opposed by the majority of Reid’s Democratic colleagues. The vote, 60-34, […]

Posted in Constitution, Democrats, Cong-SENATE |

“…had earmarks…all the way home!”

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

From Think Progress.com…

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Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), who was appointed to replace Trent Lott, “last year obtained a $6 million earmark for a defense contractor whose executives were among his top campaign contributors” and were represented in the matter by Wicker’s former chief of staff.

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Images: (Hog) iptv.org; (Senator) opencongress.org

Posted in Republicans, Mississippi, Cong-SENATE, Trent Lott, Roger Wicker |

Dante had Virgil as his guide in the Inferno, Squeaks will have Rove and The Hartford.

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Lieberman to endorse McCain
By: Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin
Dec 16, 2007 02:57 PM EST
Updated: December 16, 2007 04:12 PM EST
Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), who was on the national Democratic ticket in 2000, will cross the aisle to endorse Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) tomorrow, Republican sources said.
The two will appear together on NBC’s “Today” show tomorrow, […]

Posted in John S. McCain III, Connecticut, Lieberman, Cong-SENATE, Politics, Arizona, 2008 Presidential Campaign |

Senator Whitehouse displays samples of W’s continual erosion of the rule of law.

Friday, December 7th, 2007

This morning, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)(VIDEO) delivered an impassioned floor speech to help frame the debate over FISA reform. Using his privilege as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Whitehouse said he has “spent hours poring over” secret opinions issued by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) — and he took […]

Posted in administration, Law, Cong-SENATE, Department of Justice, Sheldon Whitehouse |

ARLEN = SUNDAY MORNING ANGER + MIDWEEK CAPITULATION

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Specter blocks contempt vote.
Think Progress
Following an objection by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), a vote has been postponed on “contempt resolutions against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential political guru Karl Rove for failing to respond to subpoenas” regarding the U.S. attorney scandal. Specter, who asked Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) for a […]

Posted in Bush, Cong-SENATE, Rove, Bolton, Specter |

This site has not especially applauded Senator Reid’s leadership, but his action has pushed him to the front.

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Reid to Keep Senate in Session to Prevent Recess Appointments
By Erin P. Billings
Roll Call Staff
Friday, Nov. 16, 2007; 12:35 pm
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to keep the chamber in session over the Thanksgiving break to block President Bush from making any unsavory recess appointments while Senators are out of town.
In a statement […]

Posted in Bush, Democrats, Cong-SENATE, Harry Reid |

What ever happened to that devil-may-care senator who used sight gags to keep the Judiciary committee in stitches?

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

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Max Follmer
The Huffington Post
Feinstein Faces Dem Censure After Backing Mukasey
November 12, 2007 11:50 PM
One day after voting to elevate a divisive conservative judge to the federal appeals court in New Orleans, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the president’s guest aboard Air Force One. She had been invited to survey the damage from the recent spate […]

Posted in California, Cong-SENATE, Diane Feinstein |

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