Hip Hip Hooray For Dennis! AND No immunity for Telecoms!

[babsbunny]

Before we tackle the telecom immunity issue, for
hopefully the last
time, let us take a moment to celebrate the
magnificent win of Dennis
Kucinich last night against an out-of-district
corporate-financed
interloper. Your magnificent response to our appeals
to support him
in his own time of need is what made it possible for
us to hold the
line there.

And yet one more time, we need to hold the line
against the bully
push from the White House for letting the telecoms off
the hook for
knowingly collaborating with their criminal actions in
completely
disregarding the law to wiretap million of ordinary
peace loving U.S.
citizens.

Please call your House member yet again, tollfree at
800-828-0498,
800-614-2803 or 866-340-9281, and let them know how
disgusted you
would be if they were to cave in yet again.

And then please consider visiting the action page that
Shirley Golub,
seriously challenging Nancy Pelosi for the House seat
from San
Francisco, has created to send an email to your House
member to back
up your phone call.

http://www.shirley08.com/petitions/pnum811.php

Here's what Shirley Golub has to say on the subject:

No telecom immunity, or, for that matter, to anyone
who cooperates
with the illegal demands of the Bush administration.
Warrantless
wiretapping is a violation of the people’s right to
privacy (please
read the 4thamendment). When an administration takes
an oath of
office and then proceeds to act in an irresponsible
manner, ignoring
that oath, those corporations and/or individuals who
assisted must
not be "forgiven".

And certainly a request for a retroactive action
additionally causes
those who might consider illegal activities in the
future to believe
that their "indiscretions" will be pardoned. Our
internet and phone
communications have been violated, and these acts have
been admitted
to by Bush. Congress must defend our Constitution and
stand strong
for our rights.

And we should add some choice words of our own:

What we have in the House of Representatives is a
leadership problem
at heart. There has been no "new direction", a worn
out threadbare
slogan if there ever was one. It's just been the same
old endless
caving in and bending over. And the best and surest
way to STOP it is
to support real progressive primary challenges against
the weak-kneed
and ineffectual, like the challenge that Shirley is
mounting now.

Shirley Golub Video: http://www.shirley08.com

On the page above you can see the Shirley's latest
YouTube video,
running right now in heavy rotation on MSNBC cable in
San Francisco,
calling on her fellow citizens to join her in a weekly
impeachment
and primary challenge rally in front of Nancy Pelosi's
district
office every Thursday. And hundreds every week are.

Maybe you can't be in San Francisco this Thursday at
noon at 450
Golden Gate Ave. But you be there in spirit by making
a contribution
to Shirley now, to run more and more of these TV
spots, and print
ads, and to put her on the radio and everything else
with her "I'm on
the table" message.

Or if you would, just send this email to other people
you know, to
encourage them to visit Shirley's site, you can help
her to spread
the impeachment now message, and inspire other
candidates to step
forward and do the same thing in their own districts.
For if the
speaker of the House can be successfully challenged,
why not any
member of Congress who still cannot find their spine
with both hands?

Paid for by Shirley Golub for Congress

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories
that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as
possible.

If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do
so at
http://www.usalone.com/in.htm

[PDJane]

1. That's the best news I've heard today..........

Thank you!

[L. Coyote]

2. Support Speaker Pelosi and the Hose DEMs. Thank them for saying NO to Bush immunity.

[warren pease]

3. I like the term "Hose dems" ...

Mind if I use it from time to time? I'll be sure to credit the source.

I've been searching for the right metaphor for these useless shits for a year now and I think that's the winner. There's so many variations on the word "hose," most of them indicative of failure or stupidity.

Like "hoser" as in "loser," when spoken with a Canadian accent, eh? Or like something is "hosed," as in you've just blown up your hard drive.

Or maybe you're hosed because you're supposed to be a leader of the opposition party in a country in debt up to its ass and hated by the entire world and you just allowed a bill to to authorize another $100 million for mass slaughter to come up for a vote because you don't have what it takes to look the world's leading avatar of ineptitude, stupidity, belligerence, arrogance, greed and malevolence in the eye and tell him to fuck off.

Now that's hosed, alright, and may the good Ms. Golub kick Ms. Nancy's botoxed, $52 million net worth ass all the way to the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge this November.

Btw, when did they "say no to Bush immunity?" Last I heard, they were going to take some extra time to plot the best way to give The Commander Guy another get out of jail free card -- one of dozens they've awarded his felonious ass -- without pissing off any of their constituents except the progressives, who don't count for shit anyway.


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[L. Coyote]

5. "going to" is out getting hosed, I'm thinking. The PAA expired, that was the "No."

[warren pease]

7. Sorry ... I don't get the reference...

Plus which, I was just messin' with you. Don't take it unkindly.

It really is one of the all-time great tpyos, though.


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[pacalo]

4. Thanks for the link.

I was too happy to send my thoughts:

Just the request of "no immunity" implies that a crime was committed. Please consider your duty of oversight & vote "no" to this immunity, then please hold hearings to find out why this immunity was needed in the first place. Taxpayers, particularly those who are struggling with their own limited home budgets, have a right to know how their tax dollars are being spent.

Please don't cave in to the strong-arming being applied on this issue; no immunity to the telecom industry. Thank you for your consideration, & I sincerely hope that you do the right thing for those people you serve as well as for the country.

[ClayZ]

6. K and R YAY!

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