"Kos Supporters In Chicago Were Missing In Action" [View All]

[orleans]

"Democrats should have canceled the August recess and fought like patriots against this outrage and the entire Daily Kos community should have risen as one, and turned the Chicago meeting into a war room mobilizing national support to defeat this outrage.

"Instead, Democrats in Washington surrendered without a fight and Kos supporters in Chicago were missing in action, without making a fight, at the moment Congress acted.

"What is needed is a great debate about how long we will permit the politics of fear to justify the surrender of our freedoms and what is needed is a Democratic Party that takes this case to the country once and for all.

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"Lets remember that FISA violations are crimes punishable by prison. If indeed it is ultimately determined that the law violated there are hundreds of thousands to millions of criminal violations, each punishable by imprisonment.

"It is an outrage the President, Vice President and Attorney General sought to legalize what would otherwise be criminal.

"It is an outrage the Democrats who control Congress lacked the steel to make this fight.

"It is a major, major disappointment that the Daily Kos convention did not rise in outrage and lead a last stand against this vile program and this last Congressional submission to aggressive abuse of Presidential power and failure to faithfully execute the laws of the land.

--brent budowsky
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brent-budowsky/congress-caves-bloggers-_b_59259.html