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	<title>Comments on: Brownback: 9/11 Resolution Did Not Give Bush Authority for Warrantless Wiretapping</title>
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		<title>By: simply me</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-5/#comment-786545</link>
		<dc:creator>simply me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am impartial to this issue. In order to give an opinion i would have to make a deductive assumption and narrowing down of the events. Yet considering that we as the people have not seen or heard all sides as of everyone that could opinionate upon  this issue.. I&#039;d have to say that Hopefully Bush had the good of the people in mind. Yet we should stop to ponder that President Bush not only has the weight and eyes of everyone in the nation on his back and the weight of the future of U.S. on his shoulders but as well as His family the first family is part of this nation and in making a move in this war he has to as the president, lawyer, politician, father, husband and son make these discisions..  I do not particulary agree with everything this president has done during his office, yet it has been war, bombings and invasions as these that he has pulled us through, as well as i think that as commander and chief and the head of this nation.. (that we put there mind you.. and if you didnt vote well then should you be against him?) he has the right to do a check on everybody it isnt like he is interested in the gossip of our simple lives.. therefore before making a descision think on this.. what would you have done? and above all what have you to hide?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am impartial to this issue. In order to give an opinion i would have to make a deductive assumption and narrowing down of the events. Yet considering that we as the people have not seen or heard all sides as of everyone that could opinionate upon  this issue.. I&#8217;d have to say that Hopefully Bush had the good of the people in mind. Yet we should stop to ponder that President Bush not only has the weight and eyes of everyone in the nation on his back and the weight of the future of U.S. on his shoulders but as well as His family the first family is part of this nation and in making a move in this war he has to as the president, lawyer, politician, father, husband and son make these discisions..  I do not particulary agree with everything this president has done during his office, yet it has been war, bombings and invasions as these that he has pulled us through, as well as i think that as commander and chief and the head of this nation.. (that we put there mind you.. and if you didnt vote well then should you be against him?) he has the right to do a check on everybody it isnt like he is interested in the gossip of our simple lives.. therefore before making a descision think on this.. what would you have done? and above all what have you to hide?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=786545', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Think Progress &#187; McCain: Bush Does Not Have &#8220;The Legal Authority To Engage In These Warrantless Wiretaps&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator>Think Progress &#187; McCain: Bush Does Not Have &#8220;The Legal Authority To Engage In These Warrantless Wiretaps&#8221;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] McCain is the latest addition to a growing list of prominent conservatives &#8212; including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) &#8212; who have expressed serious concerns about the legality of the program. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] McCain is the latest addition to a growing list of prominent conservatives &#8212; including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) &#8212; who have expressed serious concerns about the legality of the program. [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=416609', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-5/#comment-388576</link>
		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;I donâ€™t want my tax dollar$ spent keeping this traitorous bastard alive I want him executed and the sooner the better. Until then put a gag in his fat mouth. 

Comment by I-RIGHT-I â€” January 11, 2006 @ 8:08 am &lt;/em&gt;

Then why did you prevent his mother from having an abortion?  You can&#039;t have it both ways either you are Pro-Life (this does not say Pro-fetus-life) or you are not.  Which is it?

And you do know, that if money is all that concerns you, it&#039;s far cheaper to pay for the abortion than his trial, public defender, jail cell and execution.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I donâ€™t want my tax dollar$ spent keeping this traitorous bastard alive I want him executed and the sooner the better. Until then put a gag in his fat mouth. </p>
<p>Comment by I-RIGHT-I â€” January 11, 2006 @ 8:08 am </em></p>
<p>Then why did you prevent his mother from having an abortion?  You can&#8217;t have it both ways either you are Pro-Life (this does not say Pro-fetus-life) or you are not.  Which is it?</p>
<p>And you do know, that if money is all that concerns you, it&#8217;s far cheaper to pay for the abortion than his trial, public defender, jail cell and execution.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=388576', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-5/#comment-388015</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying

&quot;I specialized in what&#039;s called special access programs,&quot; Tice said of his job. &quot;We called them &#039;black world&#039; programs and operations.&quot; 

But now, Tice tells ABC News that some of those secret &quot;black world&quot; operations run by the NSA were operated in ways that he believes violated the law. He is prepared to tell Congress all he knows about the alleged wrongdoing in these programs run by the Defense Department and the NSA in the post-9/11 efforts to go after terrorists. 

&quot;The mentality was we need to get these guys, and we&#039;re going to do whatever it takes to get them,&quot; he said. 

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1491889

&lt;b&gt;I don&#039;t want my tax dollar$ spent keeping this traitorous bastard alive I want him executed and the sooner the better. Until then put a gag in his fat mouth.&lt;/b&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying</p>
<p>&#8220;I specialized in what&#8217;s called special access programs,&#8221; Tice said of his job. &#8220;We called them &#8216;black world&#8217; programs and operations.&#8221; </p>
<p>But now, Tice tells ABC News that some of those secret &#8220;black world&#8221; operations run by the NSA were operated in ways that he believes violated the law. He is prepared to tell Congress all he knows about the alleged wrongdoing in these programs run by the Defense Department and the NSA in the post-9/11 efforts to go after terrorists. </p>
<p>&#8220;The mentality was we need to get these guys, and we&#8217;re going to do whatever it takes to get them,&#8221; he said. </p>
<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1491889" rel="nofollow">http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1491889</a></p>
<p><b>I don&#8217;t want my tax dollar$ spent keeping this traitorous bastard alive I want him executed and the sooner the better. Until then put a gag in his fat mouth.</b><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=388015', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-5/#comment-386027</link>
		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt; But I believe a few people descended into a level of viciousness that was reminiscent of a friend making an embarrassing a$$ of themself after too much imbibing. 

Comment by mighty aphrodite â€” January 9, 2006 @ 5:14 pm &lt;/em&gt;

Pot (answering cell phone):  &quot;Yes, hello?&quot;
Kettle (calling Pot on his cell phone) : &quot;Pot, you&#039;re black!!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em> But I believe a few people descended into a level of viciousness that was reminiscent of a friend making an embarrassing a$$ of themself after too much imbibing. </p>
<p>Comment by mighty aphrodite â€” January 9, 2006 @ 5:14 pm </em></p>
<p>Pot (answering cell phone):  &#8220;Yes, hello?&#8221;<br />
Kettle (calling Pot on his cell phone) : &#8220;Pot, you&#8217;re black!!&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=386027', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-5/#comment-384321</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#149 - &quot;if it werenâ€™t for republicans, there wouldnâ€™t even be an al qaeda.&quot;  - Prog REx

*****PRex, PLEASE come up with something a tad more original. I apologize for the following redundancy, BUT sometimes typing slowly h-e-l-p-s. During the late &#039;70&#039;s, under the kindly, but terminally wimpy administration of Jimmy &quot;Rabbit&quot; Carter, IRAN WAS our most detested enemy.  Of course, the old mantra you are apparently unfamiliar with or choose to ignore applied &quot;the enemy of MY enemy is my friend&quot;.  Your 20/20 hindsight doesn&#039;t count - if it did, we&#039;d team you up Madame Zelda.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#149 &#8211; &#8220;if it werenâ€™t for republicans, there wouldnâ€™t even be an al qaeda.&#8221;  &#8211; Prog REx</p>
<p>*****PRex, PLEASE come up with something a tad more original. I apologize for the following redundancy, BUT sometimes typing slowly h-e-l-p-s. During the late &#8217;70&#8217;s, under the kindly, but terminally wimpy administration of Jimmy &#8220;Rabbit&#8221; Carter, IRAN WAS our most detested enemy.  Of course, the old mantra you are apparently unfamiliar with or choose to ignore applied &#8220;the enemy of MY enemy is my friend&#8221;.  Your 20/20 hindsight doesn&#8217;t count &#8211; if it did, we&#8217;d team you up Madame Zelda.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384321', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: mighty aphrodite</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-4/#comment-384032</link>
		<dc:creator>mighty aphrodite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The &quot;awful/beautiful&quot; thing about this is the accusations re: the banning of some.  Most people who hang out here - whether true progs or true trolls - have a pretty good sense of humour; even the biting humour is generally clever(i.e. I-R-I(!) Spudge, ex-Hippie, JC God of War, etc.)  But I believe a few people descended into a level of viciousness that was reminiscent of a friend making an embarrassing a$$ of themself after too much imbibing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The &#8220;awful/beautiful&#8221; thing about this is the accusations re: the banning of some.  Most people who hang out here &#8211; whether true progs or true trolls &#8211; have a pretty good sense of humour; even the biting humour is generally clever(i.e. I-R-I(!) Spudge, ex-Hippie, JC God of War, etc.)  But I believe a few people descended into a level of viciousness that was reminiscent of a friend making an embarrassing a$$ of themself after too much imbibing.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384032', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-4/#comment-383401</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 19:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I assure you, if this were Survivor, youâ€™d be the first one voted off the island, IRI. You have no room to criticize Ryan.
Comment by unbelievable 


&lt;b&gt;If you don&#039;t mind I&#039;ll make room. Voted off the island? That&#039;s cute. I really hate that show though. &lt;/b&gt;

 If heâ€™s out you should be as well.
&lt;b&gt;(The boss thinks otherwise, why I don&#039;t know.)&lt;/b&gt; You donâ€™t offer intellectual repartee,
&lt;b&gt;(you don&#039;t offer an intellect)&lt;/b&gt; just slanderous insults, 
&lt;b&gt;(most of my insults contain a grain of truth)&lt;/b&gt;racial epithets,
&lt;b&gt;(nothing that you won&#039;t find on K-Hop Radio)&lt;/b&gt; unadulterated hypocrasy
&lt;b&gt;(how can hypocrisy not contain some adultery?)&lt;/b&gt; and misogynistic blather.
&lt;b&gt;(hardly blather but I understand why you think so being a fem and all.)&lt;/b&gt; And you know it.
&lt;b&gt;(Yeah, I know. So, what was your point again? Oh yeah, that I should go and Ryan should stay, that&#039;s right, I remember. Ok....let&#039;s vote on it shall we? Oh! Wait! Silly me! This isn&#039;t a democracy is it? HA!)&lt;/b&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I assure you, if this were Survivor, youâ€™d be the first one voted off the island, IRI. You have no room to criticize Ryan.<br />
Comment by unbelievable </p>
<p><b>If you don&#8217;t mind I&#8217;ll make room. Voted off the island? That&#8217;s cute. I really hate that show though. </b></p>
<p> If heâ€™s out you should be as well.<br />
<b>(The boss thinks otherwise, why I don&#8217;t know.)</b> You donâ€™t offer intellectual repartee,<br />
<b>(you don&#8217;t offer an intellect)</b> just slanderous insults,<br />
<b>(most of my insults contain a grain of truth)</b>racial epithets,<br />
<b>(nothing that you won&#8217;t find on K-Hop Radio)</b> unadulterated hypocrasy<br />
<b>(how can hypocrisy not contain some adultery?)</b> and misogynistic blather.<br />
<b>(hardly blather but I understand why you think so being a fem and all.)</b> And you know it.<br />
<b>(Yeah, I know. So, what was your point again? Oh yeah, that I should go and Ryan should stay, that&#8217;s right, I remember. Ok&#8230;.let&#8217;s vote on it shall we? Oh! Wait! Silly me! This isn&#8217;t a democracy is it? HA!)</b><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383401', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-4/#comment-383381</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unlike you (Judd?) I donâ€™t get my income from this site, it doesnâ€™t feed me. You however clearly are paid to be evil, just like Delay. You certainly keep appropriate company, no matter what politics you claim to be close to.

&lt;b&gt;Cue Twilight Zone music please....Bwaaaaahaaaaahahaaaaa. &lt;/b&gt;

Screw yourself you hateful loser! And take Judd with you for being your willing protector! 

&lt;b&gt;Calm down Ryan...this isn&#039;t helping your hypertension you know. Poor little guy....sheesh!&lt;/b&gt;

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unlike you (Judd?) I donâ€™t get my income from this site, it doesnâ€™t feed me. You however clearly are paid to be evil, just like Delay. You certainly keep appropriate company, no matter what politics you claim to be close to.</p>
<p><b>Cue Twilight Zone music please&#8230;.Bwaaaaahaaaaahahaaaaa. </b></p>
<p>Screw yourself you hateful loser! And take Judd with you for being your willing protector! </p>
<p><b>Calm down Ryan&#8230;this isn&#8217;t helping your hypertension you know. Poor little guy&#8230;.sheesh!</b></p>
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		<title>By: Marie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-4/#comment-383377</link>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#132, I copied it - I hope you don&#039;t mind.  It&#039;s so true - and so funny!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#132, I copied it &#8211; I hope you don&#8217;t mind.  It&#8217;s so true &#8211; and so funny!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383377', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;I donâ€™t care one way or another what happens to you but I will suggest you not bite the hand that feeds you. 

Comment by I-RIGHT-I â€” January 9, 2006 @ 10:48 am &lt;/em&gt;

I assure you, if this were Survivor, you&#039;d be the first one voted off the island, IRI.  You have no room to criticize Ryan.  If he&#039;s out you should be as well.  You don&#039;t offer intellectual repartee, just slanderous insults, racial epithets, unadulterated hypocrasy and misogynistic blather.  And you know it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I donâ€™t care one way or another what happens to you but I will suggest you not bite the hand that feeds you. </p>
<p>Comment by I-RIGHT-I â€” January 9, 2006 @ 10:48 am </em></p>
<p>I assure you, if this were Survivor, you&#8217;d be the first one voted off the island, IRI.  You have no room to criticize Ryan.  If he&#8217;s out you should be as well.  You don&#8217;t offer intellectual repartee, just slanderous insults, racial epithets, unadulterated hypocrasy and misogynistic blather.  And you know it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383220', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-4/#comment-383213</link>
		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 17:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ryan,

It&#039;s certainly not been as much fun around here without you... even the trolls miss you :).  We&#039;ve all been looking forward to your return.  You always add something amazing to these &#039;discussions&#039;.  I am stunned. 

Please, keep us updated, and let us know where you are.  You&#039;ve been missed and things are not the same without you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ryan,</p>
<p>It&#8217;s certainly not been as much fun around here without you&#8230; even the trolls miss you :).  We&#8217;ve all been looking forward to your return.  You always add something amazing to these &#8216;discussions&#8217;.  I am stunned. </p>
<p>Please, keep us updated, and let us know where you are.  You&#8217;ve been missed and things are not the same without you.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383213', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Keith H.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keith H.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;In fact if anything heâ€™s not going far enough. For example, Iran is still not in smouldering ruins.&lt;/i&gt;

Comment by I-RIGHT-I â€” January 9, 2006 @ 10:51 am 

IRI = comedian.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>In fact if anything heâ€™s not going far enough. For example, Iran is still not in smouldering ruins.</i></p>
<p>Comment by I-RIGHT-I â€” January 9, 2006 @ 10:51 am </p>
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		<title>By: big papa</title>
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		<dc:creator>big papa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nonsense. Heâ€™s doing exactly what we want him to do. In fact if anything heâ€™s not going far enough. For example, Iran is still not in smouldering ruins. 

Comment by I-RIGHT-I 3196

Dear I-triflinBushba*lickinalcracka-I,

Please exhort your inbred leaders to attack Iran so that they will have to reinstate the draft, draft your sorry old cowardly a**, send you to the front lines with faulty body armor, cause you to be captured as a pow, and the Iranians use your public torture, beheading and evisceration as part of a propaganda film- prefacing comments by Ayman Alzawahiri, to be distributed world wide...

Why aren&#039;t you in baghdad anyway texas redneck cowardly beeotch?

Why do you hate America?

How many times a day do you pray to your gods bushiva and L&#039;il Dick?

How many of your children are actually your nieces and nephews too?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nonsense. Heâ€™s doing exactly what we want him to do. In fact if anything heâ€™s not going far enough. For example, Iran is still not in smouldering ruins. </p>
<p>Comment by I-RIGHT-I 3196</p>
<p>Dear I-triflinBushba*lickinalcracka-I,</p>
<p>Please exhort your inbred leaders to attack Iran so that they will have to reinstate the draft, draft your sorry old cowardly a**, send you to the front lines with faulty body armor, cause you to be captured as a pow, and the Iranians use your public torture, beheading and evisceration as part of a propaganda film- prefacing comments by Ayman Alzawahiri, to be distributed world wide&#8230;</p>
<p>Why aren&#8217;t you in baghdad anyway texas redneck cowardly beeotch?</p>
<p>Why do you hate America?</p>
<p>How many times a day do you pray to your gods bushiva and L&#8217;il Dick?</p>
<p>How many of your children are actually your nieces and nephews too?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383140', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Lily</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-4/#comment-383099</link>
		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lisa,

Re: Possibility of Bush extending his term.  I posted this on another site, but feel it bears repeating. From the Declaration of Independence - &quot;...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them [us] under absolute despotism, it is their right [our right], it is their duty [our &lt;strong&gt;DUTY&lt;/strong&gt;], to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their [our] future security.&quot; Thomas Jefferson, et. al.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lisa,</p>
<p>Re: Possibility of Bush extending his term.  I posted this on another site, but feel it bears repeating. From the Declaration of Independence &#8211; &#8220;&#8230;when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them [us] under absolute despotism, it is their right [our right], it is their duty [our <strong>DUTY</strong>], to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their [our] future security.&#8221; Thomas Jefferson, et. al.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383099', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-4/#comment-383021</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The price Bush pays for his way-over-reaching is that now his OWN party cannot trust him. Setting aside whether he lied to them on WMD and Saddam-9/11 issues, it is at least now clear that heâ€™s tricked them on numerous occasion, from the torture ban issue to secret spying. 

Comment by Tong Wu 

Nonsense. He&#039;s doing exactly what we want him to do. In fact if anything he&#039;s not going far enough. For example, Iran is still not in smouldering ruins.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The price Bush pays for his way-over-reaching is that now his OWN party cannot trust him. Setting aside whether he lied to them on WMD and Saddam-9/11 issues, it is at least now clear that heâ€™s tricked them on numerous occasion, from the torture ban issue to secret spying. </p>
<p>Comment by Tong Wu </p>
<p>Nonsense. He&#8217;s doing exactly what we want him to do. In fact if anything he&#8217;s not going far enough. For example, Iran is still not in smouldering ruins.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383021', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: I-RIGHT-I</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-4/#comment-383016</link>
		<dc:creator>I-RIGHT-I</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I pointed out that he hadnâ€™t banned I-RIGHT-I, even though he was using the â€œNâ€ word, spouting homophobia, misogyny and even talking about noosing up liberals in a typical death threat he likes to make. But apparently those violations donâ€™t matter to Judd as long as you donâ€™t publically point out heâ€™s a crappy administrator. He said that I couldnâ€™t come back until I stopped making trouble, which is ironic considering I thought I was trying to defend against trouble like I-RIGHT-I. Iâ€™ve come to be concerned that maybe Judd is in fact the source of I-RIGHT-I considering that he wonâ€™t ban his clearly violating postings, yet he banned me.

Comment by Ryan &quot;FMFB&quot; N.E.A.T.

I think it&#039;s pretty clear what&#039;s going on. Judd likes to keep me around because he knows you losers need to rally against a flag waving bigot like me so your mental image of conservatives remains focused on the prototypical Texas redneck. If I wasn&#039;t here you&#039;d have to make me up. You on the other hand are an embarrassment to Judd and his sponsors because as my opposite you epitomize the barking moonbat mentality of the Filthy Left. 

I don&#039;t care one way or another what happens to you but I will suggest you not bite the hand that feeds you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I pointed out that he hadnâ€™t banned I-RIGHT-I, even though he was using the â€œNâ€ word, spouting homophobia, misogyny and even talking about noosing up liberals in a typical death threat he likes to make. But apparently those violations donâ€™t matter to Judd as long as you donâ€™t publically point out heâ€™s a crappy administrator. He said that I couldnâ€™t come back until I stopped making trouble, which is ironic considering I thought I was trying to defend against trouble like I-RIGHT-I. Iâ€™ve come to be concerned that maybe Judd is in fact the source of I-RIGHT-I considering that he wonâ€™t ban his clearly violating postings, yet he banned me.</p>
<p>Comment by Ryan &#8220;FMFB&#8221; N.E.A.T.</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s pretty clear what&#8217;s going on. Judd likes to keep me around because he knows you losers need to rally against a flag waving bigot like me so your mental image of conservatives remains focused on the prototypical Texas redneck. If I wasn&#8217;t here you&#8217;d have to make me up. You on the other hand are an embarrassment to Judd and his sponsors because as my opposite you epitomize the barking moonbat mentality of the Filthy Left. </p>
<p>I don&#8217;t care one way or another what happens to you but I will suggest you not bite the hand that feeds you.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383016', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mike Stallings</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike Stallings</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The FISA Law is so &quot;liberal&quot; it allows the President to wiretap anyone anytime provided the Court hears about it within 72 hours and furthermore gives the President 15 days afterwards to make the warrant good. 

Bush is merely interested in Imperial power over the electorate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The FISA Law is so &#8220;liberal&#8221; it allows the President to wiretap anyone anytime provided the Court hears about it within 72 hours and furthermore gives the President 15 days afterwards to make the warrant good. </p>
<p>Bush is merely interested in Imperial power over the electorate.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=383004', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: OldSoldier</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/08/brownback-on-nsa/comment-page-4/#comment-382997</link>
		<dc:creator>OldSoldier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s amazing that so many &quot;conservatives&quot; argue that &quot;conserving&quot; executive privilege is superior to a literal, don&#039;t infer, reading of the Constitution when it suits their political party preferences. Pious Hypocricy at it&#039;s most blatantly partisan. Commander in Chief is a Military designation. Absent a state of Martial law the President must obey the entire Constitution to be within the law. Even Lincoln, with a formal Congressional declaration of War in hand, was overturned by the Supreme Court after he suspended Habeas Corpus. Now, this President is precluding the possibility of making any Federal case stick by ignoring the existing Federal Wire tap law which gives him emergency authority to order instant wiretaps so long as he addresses the legality with the FISA Court. Every case brought on the basis of his stated policy would be thrown out of court. No time would be saved by ignoring the extremely easy provisions of the FISA law. So, other than to spy on Democrats with impunity before any election, what does the President gain?
Dictatorial power for the Republican party. That&#039;s the bottom line.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s amazing that so many &#8220;conservatives&#8221; argue that &#8220;conserving&#8221; executive privilege is superior to a literal, don&#8217;t infer, reading of the Constitution when it suits their political party preferences. Pious Hypocricy at it&#8217;s most blatantly partisan. Commander in Chief is a Military designation. Absent a state of Martial law the President must obey the entire Constitution to be within the law. Even Lincoln, with a formal Congressional declaration of War in hand, was overturned by the Supreme Court after he suspended Habeas Corpus. Now, this President is precluding the possibility of making any Federal case stick by ignoring the existing Federal Wire tap law which gives him emergency authority to order instant wiretaps so long as he addresses the legality with the FISA Court. Every case brought on the basis of his stated policy would be thrown out of court. No time would be saved by ignoring the extremely easy provisions of the FISA law. So, other than to spy on Democrats with impunity before any election, what does the President gain?<br />
Dictatorial power for the Republican party. That&#8217;s the bottom line.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=382997', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Cyra Brown</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cyra Brown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A comment waaaaaay up the post refered to a comment Vice made about voting for Dem.&#039;s would about insure that we would be &quot;hit again&quot;, and not long ago he said&quot; It&#039;s no accident that we haven&#039;t been hit again.&quot; This was an attempt to justify their illegal behavior. But it gave me a chill. Almost like he was boasting about something, perhaps their self restraint, up till now, that is. So, will it also be no accident if we are &quot;hit&quot; again? I have the creeps. Oh yes, one other thing, Cheney&#039;s &quot;shortness of breath&quot; is ABSOLUTELY connected to his heart problems. I have Congestive Heart Failure, and have to take water pills every day, or my Pedal Edema (swollen feet) really bother me,and the accumulation of fluids in my chest, around my heart and lungs, causes EXTREME shortness of breath. Dirty Damn Liars. Sheesh...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A comment waaaaaay up the post refered to a comment Vice made about voting for Dem.&#8217;s would about insure that we would be &#8220;hit again&#8221;, and not long ago he said&#8221; It&#8217;s no accident that we haven&#8217;t been hit again.&#8221; This was an attempt to justify their illegal behavior. But it gave me a chill. Almost like he was boasting about something, perhaps their self restraint, up till now, that is. So, will it also be no accident if we are &#8220;hit&#8221; again? I have the creeps. Oh yes, one other thing, Cheney&#8217;s &#8220;shortness of breath&#8221; is ABSOLUTELY connected to his heart problems. I have Congestive Heart Failure, and have to take water pills every day, or my Pedal Edema (swollen feet) really bother me,and the accumulation of fluids in my chest, around my heart and lungs, causes EXTREME shortness of breath. Dirty Damn Liars. Sheesh&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=382988', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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