If this is change one can believe in, than I don’t want it.

If I’m going to get screwed I might as well get lower taxes too. I was hopeful. Now I’m voting for McCain, contributing for McCain and working on Rorabacher’s re-election.

Obama, Go back to Chicago. Stay there Fuckwad.

As for the constiution? It’s just a piece of paper. As for the US? It’s just a corrupt (failing) empire. Shining beacon on the hill? Don’t make me vomit.

I have seen most TV appearances by Elizabeth Edwards and followed their websites. I have hopes that she will fight a successful battle against her advanced breast cancer, and a lot of respect for her.

I have seen no statement by the Edwards’ that is significant as to a panoply of Constitutional crushes like the one below or the illegal bill the House passed today, Calea or a wide range of tracking tools that this administration has in place.

National Dragnet Is a Click Away

I think BO is calculating on how to win and hold the white house, and govern. He made a pragmatic, arguably cynical decision. . . That’s what leaders do.

In general you’re right. However. Perhaps the most important term in the equation you’re calculating is that you don’t do something during the campaign that will royally piss off one or more of the primary sources of your electoral strength, whether it be an interest group that provides foot soldiers on the ground or one that puts megabucks into your bank account. Obama has just blown a big Fuck Off kiss to what could have been his most motivated volunteers. He’s going to lose at least a few megabucks, too, from tens of thousands of the small-potatoes donors he’s just bet his farm on. The Congressional Republicans’ advocacy for the religious right’s hot-button issues such as legalizing forced birth and gay discrimination may sometimes be Kabuki theater, but you don’t see them dissing the theocrats during the campaigns.

In short, this was not only a strategic blunder on Obama’s part, but a tactical one as well.

SJC Voted Along Party Lines for Alito or Against Alito

The committee vote, with all 10 Republicans voting to confirm and all 8 Democrats voting to reject the nomination, sets the stage for equally contentious if predictable debate beginning Wednesday on the Senate floor. Many Democrats have indicated that they are unlikely to seek to block the nomination with a filibuster, virtually guaranteeing that Judge Alito will be confirmed by a majority vote.

Grouped By Vote Position YEAs —58
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-NE)
Roberts (R-KS)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

NAYs —42
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR)