August 8, 2007
Roll Call of Traitors
By Wayne Madsen
August 6, 2007 -- Bush signs bill permitting warrantless eavesdropping of digital communications With the support of 16 Democrats in the Senate and 41 in the House, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was amended to permit warrantless eavesdropping on digital communications passing through the United States. The FISA Modernization Bill could not have been signed into law by President Bush without the active support of Vichy Democrats, who bolted their leadership, including the Chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees -- Jay Rockefeller and Sylvestre Reyes, respectively -- and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, to embrace Bush's grab at increased surveillance powers. The 41 Vichy Democrats in the House who voted against the Bill of Rights are: Robert "Bud" Cramer - AL-5 (former Madison County District Attorney) Vic Snyder - AR-2 (former state senator) Mike Ross - AR-4 (former state senator) John Salazar CO-3 (former state rperesentative) Allen Boyd - FL-2 (former state representative) Daniel Lipinski - IL-3 (former college professor) Melissa Bean - IL-8 (former consultancy director) Ben Chandler - KY-6 (former Kentucky Attorney General) Charles Melancon - LA-3 (former industry lobbyist) Collin Peterson - MN-7 (former accountant) Gene Taylor - MS-4 (former state senator) Earl Pomeroy - ND-AL (former State Insurance Commissioner) Stephanie Herseth Sandlin - SD-AL (former attorney) Henry Cuellar - TX-28 (former Secretary of State, Texas) Jim Matheson - UT-2 (former businessman) Jason Altmire - PA-4 (former hospital executive) Heath Shuler - NC-11 (former NFL quarterback, real estate developer) John Barrow - GA-12 (former Clarke County Commissioner) Dan Boren - OK-2 (former state representative) Leonard Boswell IA-3 (former state representative) Chris Carney - PA-10 (former professor) Jim Cooper - TN-5 (former professor) Jim Costa - CA-23 (former state assemblyman) Artur Davis - AL-7 (former Assistant U.S. Attorney) Lincoln Davis - TN-4 (former state senator) Joe Donnelly - IN-2 (former printing executive) Chet Edwards - TX-17 (former state senator) Brad Ellsworth - IN-8 (former Vandenburgh County Sheriff) Bob Etheridge - NC-2 (former public schools administrator) Bart Gordon - TN-6 (former Tennessee Democratic Party state chair) Brian Higgins - NY-27 (former state assemblyman) Baron Hill - IN-9 (former state representative) Nick Lampson - TX-22 (former US Representative, 9th CD) Jim Marshall - GA-8 (former mayor of Macon) Mike McIntyre - NC-7 (former attorney) Harry Mitchell - AZ-5 (former mayor of Tempe) Ciro Rodriguez -TX-23 (former U.S. Representative, 28th CD) Zack Space - OH-18 (former attorney) John Tanner - TN-8 (former state representative) Tim Walz - MN-1 (former National Guard Command Sergeant Major) Charlie Wilson - OH-6 (former state representative) For those who may be considering challenging these traitors to the United States and the Democratic Party, their previous occupations are listed for purposes of opposition research and determing levels of past political hackery. It should be noted that two Republicans voted against increased surveillance powers for the Bush regime: Walter Jones (NC-3) and Tim Johnson (IL-15). And as with some Democratic cowards in the Senate, the following House Democrats did not show up to vote for a continuation of the Bill of Rights: Xavier Becerra CA-31 Yvette Clarke NY-11 William Lacy Clay MO-1 Bill Delahunt MA-10 Ruben Hinojosa TX-15 Carolyn Kilpatrick MI-13 Ron Klein FL-22 Tom Lantos CA-12 Ike Skelton MO-4
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Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author who has covered Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence issues since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter
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1 comment:
Hey, Pelican. I just stumbled across this post while wasting time ego-googling the name of my blog, VichyDems, partly to see how widely the term "Vichy" has spread since I started in early '06. (I didn't invent it, but there were something like 20 Google hits on it when I named my blog.)
Then I got the bright idea of blogwhoring to (I mean, building a community with) the folks who are, like me, concerned about the reluctance of so many Dems (even post-Congressional-takeover) to act like vertebrates. I'm going to bookmark everyone who seems concerned about this issue, try to get some regular communications going, and hopefully create a community that can take action sometimes (for instance, when there's a Vichy Dem being opposed by a progressive Dem in a Congressional primary).
For what it's worth, VichyDems doesn't push a radical, shoot-them-all agenda; I like pols who can be reasonable and reach across the aisle when possible, and I want to retain a majority (which couldn't happen if all the Blue Dogs were immediately expelled, and explains why people still talk to Joe Lieberman) -- and I push those realities a lot -- but incremental change, especially in primaries where one Dem can be replaced with another who's equally electable, seems like a good tactic for those who think being left of the right shoulder isn't the same as being in the actual middle of the road!
Right now I'm heavily focused on the Presidential campaign, and backing Obama (which may alienate some people) -- but hopefully that will be over soon and I can get back to more grassroots organization.
If you're interested in being part of this community, and in my bookmarks/lister/anti-vichy blogroll, would you please shoot me an email at vichy at safe-mail.net?
Thanks -- nice to meet you -- and nice to find your bloggie!
T.D. Scott
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