and diabetes is the way to protect america!!!!! Let's protect americans!!! everywhere!!!!!! with competition!!!!!! and Kennedy!!!! with bridges!!!!! and Thomas Jefferson!!!!! exclusively!!!!!! forget FISA!!! nothing there!!!
Fuck her, the constitution is in flames, and she's talking about saving trees... and broadband mass transit..
I was thinking there had to be some kind of quid pro quo (over and above the money the telecos shelled out). While there probably is more to this travesty than meets the eye, I don't trust Pelosi farther than I can spit a poisoned rat.
I don't trust Pelosi farther than I can spit a poisoned rat.
which also seems to be a new event in the Beijing Olympics...
Does Pelosi think she's addressing the usual bunch of low-info rubes who'll happily swallow this sludge?
From what I've read so far, her answers to all the key questions amount to: "umm, yeah, well, y'know, someone else'll do it later, once that bad ol' power-draining boogyman has retired to Florida. For now, I'll just tell you how sad I am."
Also, the techno-utopianism ("science will solve the healthcare crisis!" "green energy technology!" "universal broadband!") that leaves all regulatory solutions to the invisible hand of the market smacks of the old dot-com days. Nancy: you're "disappointed" in the telcos' opposition to Net Neutrality? Then don't just pay lip service to it -- you're an elected leader, so bloody DO something (hint: it's called the LEGISLATIVE branch)
But that would be too much to ask. Fuck her and fuck the frightened eunuch Dems in Congress, whinging about how they (you know, the branch of government most involved in setting checks on Executive powers) are powerless.
Wait ... what? Al Gore? WTF? Ok, his speech is worth a post of its own, so now that Nancy has surrendered her own time (as usual -- "surrender" being the operative word with Pelosi) I'll end my comment.
There's a rumor that FISA doesn't prevent *criminal* charges. When I go to my Happy Place, I see the present administration in court (actually, several courts)... perhaps it's just a fantasy.
No.
But, did you ask her about her damn table!?!?!?
I neither believe nor disbelieve.
Politics is such a shell game of trade-offs, deals and compromises, she could be telling the truth as far as she can - which is about rat-spitting distance.
That was the trade for immunity.
Believe that?
sure and I'll bet 3 of my Brooklyn Bridges on it
Having just read the Secret History of the American Empire by John Perkins, I feel I need to say that for every bribe a Dem received, there was probably also a threat. Often a threat on their lives. These neocon sociopaths don't fool around, they kill people.
(Can I say that here?)
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