Congress will be back with full slate of security legislature after recess

[Skidmore]

to consider after being stung by criticisms of a "do nothing Congress." Per CSPAN this morning. The mighty Wurlitzer cranks up for one last wheeze to convince the American people that the Republics are hard-working honest brokers of power. Will the public buy it? Stinking and steaming crock that it is.

[annabanana]

1. They will be pushing every single rotting monster

that we have been fighting against.

Privatizing Social Security, selling off the internet, further pushing Patriot Act abuses, "legalizing" warrantless wiretapping,

We are going to have to be twice as loud and 5 times more organized to keep from exhausting ourselves in a futile, life or death game of whack-a-mole.

[Vinca]

2. Easy to counter with

need for health care reform, education assistance, lower gas prices, environmental protection, need for fiscal responsibility, job security, plus the Republican-led port giveaway, lack of security for chemical and nuclear plants (not to be confused with "new-q-ler" plants), failure to secure the borders and trashing of the Constitution via the FISA bypass. This country has gone to hell in a handbasket in the last 5 years and Democrats need to reinforce the fact it has been in control of the Republicans. Democrats have been virtually powerless to stop it since the Republicans won't even allow Democratic bills to make it to the floor for debate.

[TAPat]

3. Oh, say it aint so -

haven't they done enough damage?

[Justice Is Comin]

4. Wait until you see the prestidigitation they try with immigration.

Keep your eye on the rabbit.

[acmejack]

5. Before the election they want to do security only.

"To make the choice of the American people clear." The intend to ignore all the spending bills that must be passed along with all the other pressing business of the people.

[HereSince1628]

6. A little rant to the choir on committees for security...

We live in an imperfect republic, but we Americans are quite fortunate that our revolution and experiment with democracy did not quickly descend into tyranny as those of Rome, England, France, Russia and Germany.

We should beware of Robespierre-like personalities, who join committees for security who would save our nation from widely and wildly heralded but rather limited risks of fundamentalist Islamic movements by creating certain domestic tyranny.

We should beware of the "radical Jacobins" of our own time, who herald liberty but in the moonless darkness of a nation uncertain with fear have transfigured the need for security into an anti-revolutionary putsch that threatens the existence of our democratic Republic and the foundations of our Constitution.

We should know that those like Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove, who thrill to hold the tiller of power and maintain their control by suppressing patriotic opposition under their feet, ignore the principle that power in a republic is transferred by the consent of the governed. They ignore the forlorn histories of other Republics that replaced dissent with enforced silence. They steer us toward the reef on which those Republics crashed: Totalitarianism.