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For a good, detailed run down of exactly what disgusting, spineless, lying sacks of shit the Democratic FISA flippers are, read this

As Ezra Klein summarizes:

Julian goes through the changes to the bill one by one, and demonstrates what an absurd, and even insulting, farce it's been for the Democrats to call this some kind of victory. They opposed the original FISA bill because it allowed for warrantless surveillance of Americans and legal immunity for telecom companies who turn over information to the government. The revised FISA bill, as Julian explains, allows for warrantless surveillance of Americans and legal immunity for telecom companies who turn over information to the government. So there are two options here: Either the Democrats were lying about why they opposed the bill in the first place, or they're lying about having extracted meaningful concessions on the bill now. Whichever you choose, it's been a shameful, saddening performance.

Senate vote on cloture(basically a vote to allow a vote) “To restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States.”:

Democrats: 49-0 Republicans: 6-42

Here are the six five Republicans in the senate who are in favor of a human rights standard that’s been part of western civilization for 700 years:

• Chuck Hagel
• Richard Lugar
• Gordon Smith
• Olympia Snowe – is worthless
• Arlen Specter
• John Sununu

To the rest(including Joe Lieberman): die in a fire, you fucking scumbags. And Democrats: force a real filibuster for god’s sake. I want McCain and Lieberman standing up there for 30 hours straight on CSPAN talking about how much they love the US “disappearing” people indefinitely without charges

The Washington Post has a great article detailing all the lies from Bush’s Thursday speech:

For instance, Bush asserted that “Iraq’s national leaders are getting some things done,” such as “sharing oil revenues with the provinces” and allowing “former Baathists to rejoin Iraq’s military or receive government pensions.”

Yet his statement ignored the fact that U.S. officials have been frustrated that none of those actions have been enshrined into law—and that reports from Baghdad this week indicated that a potential deal on sharing oil revenue is collapsing….

Bush also thanked “the 36 nations who have troops on the ground in Iraq.” But the State Department’s most recent weekly report on Iraq said there are 25 countries supplying 11,685 troops—about 7 percent of the size of the U.S. forces….

The president also painted a relatively favorable picture of Baghdad, saying that a year ago much of it “was under siege” but that today “ordinary life is beginning to return.” He did not mention that much of the once-heterogeneous city has been divided into Shiite and Sunni enclaves.

Or as Fred Kaplan says:

President Bush’s TV address tonight was the worst speech he’s ever given on the war in Iraq, and that’s saying a lot. Every premise, every proposal, nearly every substantive point was sheer fiction. The only question is whether he was being deceptive or delusional.

And of course the big lie is that we’re drawing down troops out of anything other than necessity. Bush has left our military in ruins, 60% of the country wants this war to end now, and the Democrats cower in fear of doing anything

Cut the money for the war