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before taking off for 2 weeks, 41 house dems and 16 senate dems (plus a so-called independent dem) crossed the aisle to vote unprecedented power to generalissimo el busho and general de abogado gonzo (but only for 6 months [so we get to see if they abuse it before we decide whether to make the same mistake again?]).

since only 2 house gops [Johnson (IL), Jones (NC)] and no senate gops voted 'nay,' the renegades' yeas decided the issue.

they let themselves get bulldozed as so many got bulldozed before to give king georgie authority to invade iraq. it's a sales tactic sometimes called 'putting hurry into it.' this time around the supposed threat was that terrorists might attack while congress vacations, so they better hurry up and enact something before they go. [i'd like to know why they couldn't just leave the old law in place till they get back. it's worked nearly 30 years.]

and apparently they're unfamiliar with the historical fact that safety is always the excuse for taking away rights.

when are they going to catch on that we didn't put them in the majority so they could sell our rights for a small, false sense of security? will they ever wake up?

as i look thru the list of their names, i see some i expected, but i'm saddened to see several i thought had more street smarts and guts.

folk who oughta know better:

41 house dems:

Altmire (PA)
Barrow (GA)
Bean (IL)
Boren (OK)
Boswell (IA)
Boyd (FL)
Carney (PA)
Chandler (KY)
Cooper (TN)
Costa (CA)
Cramer (AL)
Cuellar (TX)
Davis (AL)
Davis (TN)
Donnelly (IN)
Edwards (TX)
Ellsworth (IN)
Etheridge (NC)
Gordon (TN)
Herseth Sandlin (SD)
Higgins (NY)
Hill (IN)
Lampson (TX)
Lipinski (IL)
Marshall (GA)
Matheson (UT)
McIntyre (NC)
Melancon (LA)
Mitchell (AZ)
Peterson (MN)
Pomeroy (ND)
Rodriguez (TX)
Ross (AR)
Salazar (CO)
Shuler (NC)
Snyder (AR)
Space (OH)
Tanner (TN)
Taylor (MS)
Walz (MN)
Wilson (OH)

16 dem senators plus a loserman:

AR Lincoln, Blanche [D]
AR Pryor, Mark [D]
CA Feinstein, Dianne [D]
CO Salazar, Ken [D]
CT Lieberman, Joseph [I]
DE Carper, Thomas [D]
FL Nelson, Bill [D]
HI Inouye, Daniel [D]
IN Bayh, B. [D]
LA Landrieu, Mary [D]
MD Mikulski, Barbara [D]
MN Klobuchar, Amy [D]
MO McCaskill, Claire [D]
NE Nelson, Ben [D]
ND Conrad, Kent [D]
PA Casey, Robert [D]
VA Webb, Jim [D]