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Glenn Greenwald writes on the FISA filibuster by Dodd and Reid's view:

It's one thing to watch Congressional Democrats fail to stand up to any of the Bush abuses. It's another thing entirely to watch as they actively enable them. But they've now moved beyond even that to actually perceiving as their Enemy anyone -- such as "Dodd and his allies" -- who seeks to disrupt their Bush-enabling efforts and, worst of all, who infects their rituals with any dirty, outside riff-raff, such as actual citizens.

But wait it goes to the attitude that the first woman Speaker of the House Nancy Pelos.  This was written by Digby:

Though crediting activists for their "passion," Pelosi called it "a waste of time" for them to target Democrats. "They are advocates," she said. "We are leaders."

Uhm, not exactly, Nance. They're citizens. And you work for them. That inconvenient first amendment was put in the constitution so you wouldn't forget that.

We are to vote for Democratic party candidates, get them elected, have majorities in Congress then what?  For the Democratic leadership to crap on the voters?

This is what they are saying...Elect us then we will crap all you, the voter, and enable Mr. Bush to destroy the Constitution?

If somebody wants to run in the Democratic Party primary against DeGette I will be the first to contribute and volunteer.

Who will step up?

Spreading freedom is what 'Merica is 'bout so sayeth the Decider in Chief. But when the people of a nation rise up to demand an end to their slavery where is "the rich is my base" Commander Guy?

From The DailyMail.co.uk:

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.

 

 

 

The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."

 The assessment by Swedish diplomat Liselotte Agerlid:

"People are scared and the general assessment is that the fight is over. We were informed from one of the largest embassies in Burma that 40 monks in the Insein prison were beaten to death today and subsequently burned."

What did the USA do?  Basically nothing.

Bush doesn't care about the "freedom" because his meaning of freedom is only about "free markets" nothing more and nothing less.  The meaning of freedom:

A political condition that permits freedom of choice and action for individuals and also for individuals and groups to participate in the decisions and operation of the society and the political system.

The shame of how we treat ourselves

German Shepard dogs barking

The cops with mirror sunglasses firing their weapons

To turn back those teeming, desperate people crossing the Gretna Bridge

From the drowned American city called New Orleans

This is the legacy that heralds the new American Century

The seasons pass and longing turns to bitterness

But those who have come to replace them

Ready to raze and replace the old homes in the Ninth Ward

With the shiny and new high rise condominiums for their upper class tastes

The New Orleans diaspora

Read this to act now.  Ask Rep. DeGette and Senator Salazar what are they doing to give New Orleans residents the right to return.

Caught this off CO Confidential: 

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's Colorado organization is planning anti-war rallies next Tuesday, Oct. 2 with events in Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.

The "Rallies to Turn the Page in Iraq" recognize a 2002 speech that Obama gave to warn that military action against Iraq could lead to "a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences." 

Ten days later, on October 11, 2002, the US Senate voted to give the President authorization to go to war in Iraq.

No doubt, there will be more protests planned in Colorado to mark that 5th anniversary date.