Venting

It won’t do a lick of good unless it serves as a reminder of just who the ultimate employer is, but nonetheless: I note with dismay your vote today against stripping immunity from telecommunications companies for potential crimes committed at the request of the Bush Administration. Was the lobbying effort on the part of these …

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Sellout

There are days when I don’t understand why elected officials call themselves Democrats; if they’re just going to align themselves with the Republicans, the Bush Administration, and Big Business in the form of telephone companies, why claim otherwise? The Senate voted today to preserve retroactive immunity from lawsuits for telecommunications companies that cooperated with a …

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