With Senator Russ Feingold's lonely filibuster against the renewal of the P. Act getting virtually no support from even the most liberal Democrats in the Senate, that obnoxious, oppressive turd of a law which still stinks in spite of the rhetorical perfume sprinkled over it by the Republican-dominated Congress, will shortly become law. Even Senate minority leader Harry Reid has indicated that he will vote for it, a clear sign that I had overestimated his devotion to the U. S. Constitution, including the Fourth Amendment. What is the Whitehouse holding over the heads of these lemmings disguised as senators and congresspersons? It makes me want to cry.

Update 2/18/2006 The Senate invoked cloture on the P. Act II with only three no's. You saw it right. Only three sensible, conscientious senators in the whole Senate who take the Fourth and fourteenth Amendments seriously. Kerry, Clinton, Kennedy and all the rest of the Democrats except the courageous three have shown their true colors. A pox on their house as well as on the Republicans. I'm totally disgusted.

Let us now praise true patriots: Senators Russ Feingold, Robert Byrd and Jim Jeffords



Recommended reading:

Plutarch's biography of Cato the Younger,
Plutarch's bio. of Pompey
Wikipedia on the Weimar Republic