[joanie-f]

FYI, if you're not already aware of it.

[traviskicks]

Lott is a (R), although I agree he doesn't deserve the letter after his name...

[joanie-f]

Some valuable additional research, posted by a friend who is a former FReeper, on my weblog:

Doing some further research into the sausage-making process at the Senate, it seems like Section 220 was added as an amendment to S.1 by Harry Reid on Jan 9th. He had the following co-sponsors, so the idea that the three republican co-conspirators weren't aware of Section 220 is now toast.

McConnell [R-KY], Feinstein [D-CA] Bennett [R-UT], Sen Lieberman [D-CT], Collins [R-ME], Obama [D-IL], Salazar [D-CO], and Durbin [D-IL].

The amendment was discussed on Jan 10th without a quorum present.

It was discussed again on the 11th, with a quorum this time, but after reading as much of the Congressional Record as I could stomach, I could find no discussion of Section 220 at all. My eyes glazed over while reading Robert "Sheets" Byrd's senile rant on the Iraq war, which somehow the old geezer managed to force the senate to listen to. I think everybody just wanted to go home at that point.

Then 43 democrats and three republicans (Lott, Voinovich, and Bennett) tried to table the amendments and summarily pass the bill. They were outvoted by 51-46. They tried again several times later that evening until senators drifted away to attend to more important matters (football game?) and a quorum was no longer present.

It was that close to passing with absolutely no discussion, folks...

~ joanie
Allegiance and Duty Betrayed

[Minuteman23]

This one needs to be shouted from the rooftops, or that option may be taken away too!

[Freedom4US]

..."The groups affected are defined as ‘any organizations that encourage five hundred or more members of the general public to contact Congress ... encourage citizens to contact the executive or legislative branch... I would suggest that we all also call or e-mail our own senators and voice our outrage, but it will take a major activist movement to stop this particular steamroller."

Comrade! You are already in violation! /s Seriously, this provides not only a check on participation by the "little guy", it actually provides a means of identifying troublemakers and malcontents.. Ever read about certain tax authorities going after people? It can happen. The one thing that controversial legislation or variants thereof, is it gets people riled. "Stick it to 'em, and see who squeels."

[GVNR]

Wow! Now I don't know how well I'LL sleep tonight!

Anyone read George Orwell's 1984 recently??

I bought a copy of it a few years ago and re-read it. It may be time to get it off the shelf again.

When the Socialist Democrats succeed in silencing the general population, they'll have the mainstream media, academia and the loud leftwing whackos, all spouting their Marxist slogans. - - - - - - - Goodbye to America.

Hail to Big Brother!

[Lancey Howard]