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Dear Senate Dems: You are on your own

Blue Girl — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:53 GMT

You know that big ole "fuck you" that you spineless mother fuckers just gave me when you let that miserable fucker Lieberman retain his Homeland Security gavel? Taking away an inconsequential subcommittee chair is a god-damned insult. Salt in the wound, really. Not only do you not kick that faithless bastard out of the caucus, you let him keep his powerful position and you take away something that means nothing. How in-your-face was that "fuck you" you just spat at me, anyway? I'd say you turned it up to eleven.

Well...right back atcha. You are now, officially, on your own. You will sink or swim without me, you traitorous fucks. Not one of you worthless bastards will get one thin dime or one moment of my time.

The easiest thing in the world for me to do is...nothing.

It takes no effort at all for me to leave my checkbook in the desk drawer and not write my yearly check to the DSCC.

I don't break a sweat not phone banking or canvassing.

It pains me not in the least to ignore your efforts in the upper chamber.

I knew that you spineless jackals would hide behind that secret ballot to let the snake slither away.

Sad, innit, that I know you miserable fucks that well? There is a bakers dozen led by Feingold that doesn't deserve to be stood up against a wall with a blindfold and a cigarette. The rest of you? Go straight to hell. You don't represent me, so I don't support you.

I don't know if Claire McCaskill stabbed me in the back again or not, but probably. Her track record indicates that she never passes up an opportunity to piss me off by being a piss-poor excuse for a Democrat - especially if that Democrat holds Harry Truman's Class I seat. She's one of those blue dogs that desperately needs a primary challenger in 2012.

We need some real god-damned Democrats who won't take a reaming from a putz like Lieberman, smile, and ask for more, and please, this time can you forgo the lube?

Here is the link for the Class III Senators up for reelection in 2010, and the list of Democrats is lousy with faithless assholes you just know let him slide, secret ballot or not.

Maybe we can't knock out Evan Bayh or Chris Dodd or Barbara Boxer or Harry Reid in the primary, but we can get their damned attention and remind them that we are out here and paying attention and not acquiescing to the fucking they are intent on dispensing.

I have some new rules. The Senate Democrats are dead to me. I don't care what they do, they will get no love from me. I am not only cutting them off financially, I am cutting them off editorially. They will not get any free pixels from me.

When I say they are on their own, I mean it. Maybe I can't stop them from being spineless cowards with an abusive streak, but I don't have to choose to be a battered wife, either.

What a revoltin' development this is

Blue Girl — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:06:17 GMT

In the waning days of the current cabal, the bushies are making an end run around the attrition built into the system and political appointees are moving into senior career civil service jobs.

The transfer of political appointees into permanent federal positions, called "burrowing" by career officials, creates security for those employees, and at least initially will deprive the incoming Obama administration of the chance to install its preferred appointees in some key jobs.
Similar efforts are taking place at other agencies. Two political hires at the Labor Department have already secured career posts there, and one at the Department of Housing and Urban Development is trying to make the switch.
Between March 1 and Nov. 3, according to the federal Office of Personnel Management, the Bush administration allowed 20 political appointees to become career civil servants. Six political appointees to the Senior Executive Service, the government's most prestigious and highly paid employees, have received approval to take career jobs at the same level. Fourteen other political, or "Schedule C," appointees have also been approved to take career jobs. One candidate was turned down by OPM and two were withdrawn by the submitting agency.

So these fuckers who helped this criminal enterprise masquerading as a presidency destroy our country from within, aren't going anywhere.

They are going to stay on and continue throwing spanners in the works and undermining efforts to make government work for the people, as it was originally intended to do. Senior civil servants have a lot of influence over how policy is carried out.

The insult of this move is in-fucking-tolerable, but I am not sure what to do about it. Now these feckless minions have the protections of the federal employment system so firing them is difficult. Do we create a new layer of administration above them? We can't tolerate these people derailing our efforts to fix their bosses fuckups, so how do we legally neutralize them? Lawyers, what say you?

Will the Fourth Amendment make a comeback under Barack Obama?

Blue Girl — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:52:23 GMT

If I had a few minutes to chat with the President Elect, I would ask about the suspension of the Fourth Amendment under the Bush regime, and what do you plan to do about it, Mr. Constitutional Scholar?

I don't like his FISA vote, but I accept that it was politically expedient. You can't do shit if you don't win. We don't have to like it, but we do have to accept it. Get off your high horse of ideological purity and get pragmatic already. We won. Now what?

What is the future of domestic spying and warrantless wiretaping?

The Justice Department will be asked to respond to motions in legal challenges to the National Security Agency's wiretapping program, and must decide whether to continue the tactics used by the Bush administration - which has used broad claims of national security and "state secrets" to try to derail the challenges - or instead agree to disclose publicly more information about how the program was run.
When he takes office, Mr. Obama will inherit greater power in domestic spying power than any other new president in more than 30 years, but he may find himself in an awkward position as he weighs how to wield it. As a presidential candidate, he condemned the N.S.A. operation as illegal, and threatened to filibuster a bill that would grant the government expanded surveillance powers and provide immunity to phone companies that helped in the Bush administration's program of wiretapping without warrants. But Mr. Obama switched positions and ultimately supported the measure in the Senate, angering liberal supporters who accused him of bowing to pressure from the right.
Advisers to Mr. Obama appear divided over whether he should push forcefully to investigate the operations of the wiretapping program, which was run in secret from September 2001 until December 2005.

I figure before it's all said and done, he'll piss off everyone. He won't roll things back far enough to satisfy the left and if he is even a hairs-breadth to the left of Cheney and even hints at honoring the Bill of Rights, the right-wing nutjobs will be screaming that he has surrendered to the terrorists and invited bin Laden to tea at the White House.

He is in a damned unenviable situation - if I was him I would demand a recount - and the last thing he needs is for us to start second guessing him and getting our righteous indignation on before he is even sworn in.