Spitting MAD

I am so filled with rage that I am nearly immobilized. The Democrats have become traitors to this country by collaborating with Republicans to betray the U.S. Constitution. Didn’t hear that on your evening news, did you?

In a “bi-partisan compromise” on FISA legislation, they have decided to grant the telecommunication industry amnesty from breaking the law, and to allow the most corrupt administration ever to slink out of office without having to fear any judicial scrutiny of their lawlessness.

Tomorrow will go down in history. For the first time in 232 year history of our country’s history, Congress will pull together across party lines to declare that the President – and anyone serving as his agent – is above the law.

Glenn Greenwald and FireDogLake (can’t make the link work) are all over it, of course, but the accelerated pace of what is happening, which reveals a lot of backstage maneuvering around timing and a certainty that the votes are in line, leaves little hope that we will be able to prevent this.

Instead, FDL is organizing a “Punishment PAC”, that will target the Democratic Majority Whip in the House, and a few other key Democratic betrayers, with a media campaign to reveal their treachery. If you would like to contribute to this fund, as I have, you can do so here.

In 2000, Ralph Nadar gained a foothold among voters by arguing, fairly persuasively, that there simply was NO DIFFERENCE between Democrats and Republicans. He has since become a pariah among Democrats because they blame him for having cost Gore the Presidency. (One could argue that Gore cost himself the Presidency by being such a revulsive piece of white bread, but then we would have to ignore the Supreme Court.)

Today’s (and tomorrow’s) appalling display on the part of Democrats makes the case pretty well, I think, that Nadar is right.

Oh, and in case you’re wondering where the Big O is in all of this, he’s busy cutting commercials in support of one of the worst Bush-supporting Democrats there is, a commercial to help this guy defeat a progressive, African-American woman primary challenger.

Really out there to change the system, isn’t he?