lIPSHIN,HOW DO YOU KNOW WHO THE NSA IS LISTENING TO??

Cowardice of the Republican Congress & Senate still have not seen the extent of the “domestic surveillance program,” now named in our Republican newspeak as the “terrorist surveillance program.” They have chose not to hold hearing in private or not, to fulfill their constitutional responsibilities of oversight. The best answer so far from such heroic figures as Torturing A.G. Gonzalez or our new presumed Bubbling King & Bushwhacking Co-King (Bush/Cheney) is that our duly elected Congress and Senate cannot be trusted with the information.

Tell me; since when did a sitting President’s Administration presume to tell a Congress that it didn’t need to know, and they just sat and took it like a muted baby in a dirty diaper??

Tell me; if this Congress, or a newly elected Congress does not investigate the litany of lies, deceptions, and outright criminal behavior of this government, what hope is left for our future Democracy??

Tell me; if the President’s re-election committee, say Karl Rove, had any access to this program during the 2004 election?? Do we really think that a guy who would sick an FBI buddy on an opponent, to serve Federal time for a made up crime in a SOS state race, could resist the secret surveillance of a Presidential opponent in a Presidential race?

If he did use the NSA to further the ambitions of a President in an American Presidential election, would that be a Coup de at? What Then??

Are we so gullible as to believe this scenario is so far afoot of the reality? We have no Congressional oversight for the past 4 years of surveillance. We have no FISA court oversight.

They are operating completely independent of any check, or balance of power.

An American Democratically elected President??

Happy Thoughts;

Dan Grady

I’m to understand that your explanation of “oversight” is the covering of the Republican incumbents arse???

I remember my high school civics class describing “Congressional & Senate Oversight” as one of the vital roles that the legislature must play as a “check & balance” to the executive’s power run amok.

I had hoped that to be a staff writer on the New York Times would presume a basic government insight to the roles of each branch of the government in an American democracy. Maybe the ignorance of the writing staff about the vital role of the press in our democracy is part of the explanation of why the institution was no where to be found when the executive branch had decided to tell tall tales of WMD, and Al Qaeda association to get us into a disastrous foreign military adventure.

When America awakens to the wholesale sellout of the press as a result of the deregulation of the airways, and allowing media conglomerates to control our press, the press will have been seen an institution that must have government regulation again.

The Fairness Doctrine was pooh-poohed by the majority in the press, and those whom stood up for democracy have suddenly disappeared from the networks airways, and are writing blogs, and books for the backstreet publishers.

We are on the brink of a Fascist transformation, and the venerable New York Times is running cover for the whole thing??

Say It Aint So;

Dan Grady

SAVE DEMOCRACY, VOTE FOR DEMOCRATIC!
Dear Former Citizens of the United States Of America;

      We former citizens of this great democracy should be happy that our new King George & his Lord Dick should consent to speak of their desire to give of our wealth, health, and lives of our youth for their ambitions, and not make those disturbing noises in opposition. We chattel should know our place and not trouble ourselves with the judgments of our King and his Lords of Neo-Con.

      The constitution is what our king should wish it to be, and we should be pleased we have the freedoms he allows us today, and not risk his displeasure with what remains of them.

      Welcome to the Kingdom of America, God Bless Our King, King George the Bush, and his trusted Lords Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, and Donald Rumsfeldt. We are but chattel for their desires, we should be so pleased to have surrendered our civil liberties, our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for his righteous leadership. 

      So we mourn the death of the democracy of the United States of America, and so ‘long live the King?’

      Happy Thoughts;

                Dan Grady

Too bad for us.

These Republicans must think we’re all idiots if they think this passes as oversight.

What a joke.

Why don’t we just have a coronation ceremony for George and get it over with?  Geez! Spare me the drama.

When will you people realize that Bush/Cheney controll EVERYTHING?  Ports deal?  Done!  Illegal syping?  OK, let’s change the law.  Torture?  Sure, as long as Congress can cover it’s ass with a worthless law.  This is just the beginning.  I’ll wager that before the November elections martial law is declared and ALL civil rights will be suspended.  I mean, who’s gonna stop him?