FEINGOLD'S STAKE

I posted (pardon the pun) the previous post prior to finding one in the ground. [Senator Russ Feingold's VERY BRIEF MUST READ: The GOP's Stake in Checking the President]

The Republicans probably feel the Check is in the mail or the form of a bill.

The people must call it due and process.
It is the least that need be done to "stay the course". [As in transitive verbs 9 through 12: stop something, postpone or hinder, alleviate something in the short term, and or restrain something.]

SPEAK STRONGLY AND CARRY LITTLE STICK

Since the unfolding of the illegal spying by the Bush administration there has been a lot of tough talk and little progress. Meanwhile the Dubai port deal is still below the radar or completely off official screens. TM-R(day 36)
As it broke, the first to be blamed was the media, the second to be blamed was the Clinton administration and finally Republicans sound tough but do little.

In review, there may be merit to any small theory but the only barriers to anarchy or tyranny are people of principle doing their jobs for the people in each branch of goverment. CONGRESS and the JUDICIARY must stand up for FISA and the constitution. Excuses that blame the law or previous administrations are just that, excuses to not follow the law nor be as accountable as the ones they blame. Politics does not mean that there is not much more need for a clear division between those who stand up for the principles of law and the constitution and those who will violate them or not uphold them.

[Thanks to the New York Times, CommonDreams.org, wikipedia.org, thinkprogress.org, newsmax.com, aclu.org, cnn.com, securityfocus.com, frontpagemag.com, washingtonpost.com, abcnews.com: For 18 links, not that they are equally used or reliable.]

Kennedy/McCain CIR

From McCain - Feingold to Kennedy - McCain

Three Years In Iraq

The day before, Dis-Courage-Meant.
The day after, Support Our Troops!

SHAME ON REPUBLICANS

For using a natural disaster to get their way, holding aid to Katrina victims hostage to drill in a National Wildlife Refuge. The $10 billion is only a small fraction of the rebates to the wealthy and oil related interests.

Speaking of running

AND NOT TOO FAR
From Bush

HOLD OF(F) COURSE

A tipping point as important as Heck
Iran may talk or they may delay,
Republicans may baulk
or walk their way,
But the law is the law
or is it just the way
to tip our constitution away.

[Or WHY NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN(AND WOMEN)...]
TO UNITE, CAMPAIGN AND GOVERN rather than run, run, run

Trust Me Review Day 22: Catch

TWO GOOD READS:
GOP IRRITATION
and
THE GAME

"Speculation(Slash)questions may be the leap to point, and the connection to the president may be the longest path."
This was my prescience about the "cut and run", while they preempt the gravity(See Impeachable Strategy).

TM-R (day 21)

Barely half-way though a period of review, today we have another quixotic mess which I was barely able to wade through.

HOWEVER I DID,
BUT ONLY AFTER THESE ACTIVITIES TRANSPIRED:

Last night my local Democratic Legislative district passed a resolution to urge our senators to support Russ Feingold's move to censure Bush.

HERE IS MY PLEA TO THEM THE DAY BEFORE:
Since impeachment procedures can only begin in the House, please support Senator Feingold on his resolution to censure President Bush for illegally wiretapping without court order.

This measure should get a full committee hearings with sworn testimony that will hold not only the administration accountable, but Republicans who won't uphold the constitution, accountable.

The argument is that this is a political stunt. It is also a constitutional stunt. If politics is not used at it's fullest to protect the constitution, it will be used to circumvent it. If it is not clear to partisans on our side, it is on the other. Even swing voters would likely prefer a clearer choice than between those that break the law and those that will not uphold it.
[boldness added here]

While some "loyal opposition" may call boldness an Impeachable Strategy and resort to political calculus and even the physics of gravity like trickle down...

My reply:

Gravity does not apply in politics!
Bush (or a con) knows that will does.
Gravity is a two way street and while the masses may pull down the politician's bootstraps, only real leaders with courage can choose to pull up the bootstraps of the people.

Those who will not stand up for clarity from the administration and those who cut and run from the constitution and conversation, have no lack of will to trust, but little faith or courage to verify. Only that makes the process quixotic.

2 QCON: Dubai Ports & Abu Ghraib

Senator Schumer calls it "a promising development, but the devil's in the details,"

So it is also, as they "transfer operations from Abu Ghraib to the new Camp Cropper".

Meaning just what will the big deal be in all this? Looking like Republicans are tough and that the course is still safe?

I guess questions are comments if you can answer them.

Trust Me- (Review)

DAY 14:

Just a check-in, to see where I may have noted (if I did) that the Port Deal is a big deal. I did note that, but the why is two-fold. That is where I need to find where and when I sent that message. The idea is that "they" must "cut and run". Cut their ties to Bush so that they can run for their political lives. But elsewhere I may have noted another two-fold or fore_told . That they will be Republican enough to block investigation into the NSA spying and the Phase II in the investigation into the Pre-Iraq War use of intelligence.