Is that a set of balls I see on Mrs. Pelosi?

Between this and the news that Obama's gaining in super-delegates, I say "Hallelujah!"

Now if we only had some courageous folks in the Senate.

Democrats not afraid of own shadow! News at 11!

Please let it drag on until everybody realizes that it's patently illegal to wiretap American citizens for any reason, without a court approved warrant. PLEASE!!

I've called Sen Rockefeller at lest 3 times in as many months, and my own senators and several of the Bush-licking Dems as well; in this week's call, I told Rockefeller's staffer that he was a disgrace to America and the Constitution, and that he should either resign or switch his party to the R's.

Please get on the phone to these clowns. Thank you.

And always remember, maybe the pols in our grandfather's day were a slightly classier crowd, but this generation of Congress-critters, at least 85% of them, deserve NO RESPECT, NO DIGNITY, NO PRESUMPTION OF RE-ELECTION. We would do much better to recruit professional people with no previous political experience from groups like Code Pink, Pysicians for Soc. Resp. and MoveOn, and unite behind them in primary elections and just shut our ears to the blather from the Dem. Machine about the "experience" and "seniority" of our existing Congress-Critters.

Experience and seniority in selling us out are not the the kind of experience we need.

I think it reflects how difficult Kicinich feels his re-election will be?

Kucinich, Welch and Ron Paul are strict civil libertarians, and these bills do still contain some fairly odious provision (e.g. retroactive warrants for wiretaps) that they could not vote for.

I have been dismayed at the way the Dems have acted since gaining power in 2006. They promised a lot but backed down instead. NOW, those in the House have openly defied the Bush Regime by passing a bill that does not grant telecoms retroactive immunity. This issue is at the the heart of the calculated "firewall" this Regime has constructed since taking office. It turns out that domestic spying started months BEFORE 9/11 and no one knows the depth or scope of the warrantless wiretapping in the U.S. The reason why Courts have not exercised their power as the Third CO-EQUAL branch of Government is because the Regime has repeatedly invoked the "states secret" privilege to have lawsuits dismissed. This privilege is essentially the Regime saying: "we can't argue this case because to do so would bring national security secrets out into the open, so you just have to believe us when we say there are no laws being broken."

The HUGE problem with this rationale is the proven record of deception by this Administration. For example, the Top 3 reasons we went to war in Iraq: vast stockpile of WMDs; connection between al-qaeda and Saddam Hussein; and vague implications to the attacks of 9/11. ALL 3 have been disproven... by our Government nonetheless! Pentagon reports and other agencies have concluded that there were virtually no WMDs; there was no al-qaeda in Iraq before we invaded; and there are not facts tying Saddam Hussein to the attacks on 9/11. *For more lies perpetrated by the Bush Regime, find a report released by the Center for Public Integrity (http://www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard /) that counted 935 false statements during the past 7 years.

If the Congress is truly interested in the pursuit of truth and of having a Government that is conducted by ALL 3 CO-EQUAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, then we must allow the Courts to look into these key issues like domestic eavesdropping. So, stick to your guns Democrats and all of us in the public domain should express our support for truth, freedom and honesty!

I suggest that Congress asks the CEO's of the telecom companies to appear at a hearing and state under oath why they broke the law. This would put a human face on this. I remember well seeing the moral midget CEOs of the tobacco companies state under oath that nicotine was not addictive and tobacco was not harmful.

Just because the GOP opposes it, and it passes, doesn't mean that it's a win. Who's read the bill? It sets up the Commission to investigate the 9-11 violations to be powerless.