You are really fortunate to have DCers you can communicate with. I’ve never gotten a reply form mine that wasn’t BushSpeak BS. I usually just give up on that, then at times think, ‘if I don’t write/call then they can say my people must approve of what I do – not much negative mail….’

Cornyn is making as big an A.. of himself as Shelby. I’ve been trying to track Cornyn’s campaign $$$ (Rove campaigned for him out in El Paso); I know there’s something stinky there (CONTRAN, Bass Brothers)but not good enuf spy to root it out. CONTRAN is owned by guy named Simmons who dreamed up leveraged buy-outs, made a fortune in the crash of 1987, gave GWB $1 million for his library if located at SMU, etc. Seems everything Simmons wanted to do got approved by SEC… (TX politics is very dirty, didn’t know that, didja ? hee,hee while crying)

/s/ hopeless optimist; gonna be better Someday.

My senators = Patty Murray, who began long ago as a school board member and pre-school teacher, and originally ran for the state Senate in order to obtain better funding for schools. When she kept butting her head against federal rules, she got pissed and ran for US Senate. NO ONE gave her a chance.

My other is Maria Cantwell.

Either of the two probably outwork the entire Plantation Caucus and still have two days left over. But being West Coast, I’m sure their commutes are hellish, whereas the Plantation Caucus guys just jet an hour back home.

Think about it: Boxer, DiFi, Murray, Cantwell (and Merkely and Wyden) have a much worse commute than most members of Congress. Which means, IMHO, they all have to work harder, smarter, etc.

Patty and Maria both have one hell of a work ethic.
It looks as if the same can be said of Levin and Whitehouse.

Is Sheldon Whitehouse your Senator? Wish he were mine (sigh- – Cornyn).

Agree with all you say about FDL and Company. I’m learning from you all as fast as I can…just hope it’s fast enough.

Keep well, and keep giving us things as you see them.

I’m not such a good juggler; however, after a very serious injury and recovery period I feel myself somewhat ‘liberated’ to focus on things that have meaning for me. Gone are long commutes, long meetings, and some other things in my past life. Gives me more time to focus on things that have meaning, while I telecommute or work at home. And EW is the bestest ‘water cooler’ evah, IMHO.

As for finding resources, MadDogs, JohnLopresti, WmOckham, scribe and others are nothing short of phenomenal, as you’ve no doubt noticed.

Onward.
Lotsa work to do keeping Sheldon Whitehouse’s back.

I went back there to review (print out and study) the priceless advice given me specifically by lawyer, belewlaw. Until I found and began reading the CFR report on terrorist financing to which I gave the link up-thread, my ears were plugged with ignorance and I could not properly ‘hear’ him.

Well, my hair is not on fire and I’m not screeching that the sky is falling but I think it is time to put some thought into protecting what little assets I possess from swift seizure and freezing that is accomplished before I have a clue that I could be a suspect. There’s no reason that I would be a suspect, but Hell, ‘they’ aren’t bothered by a little thing like no reason….do they even know the meaning of that word?

If there are any who missed Marcy’s diary to which I link, IMHO it, and the comments there, are vitally important.

Thanks again for that @30 comment there, readerOfTeaLeaves.

I’m retired, so have more time, still not enough to encompass the swirling storm of info hitting on every side about our livelihood, freedoms, and what those bastids have done to us and our country. I know others who are trying diligently to juggle a demanding job and family and still make sense of all this threatening crap. Don’t see how you all do it.

As for the CFR – there’s a lot of ‘bastids’ hanging their hats there. Yoo and Viet Dinh (mastermind of the Patriot Act) are members of CFR, as are quite a few people in Obama’s Exec branch…

As for standards: seems all we can do is reach for them, and I fall short all too often.

I look forward to your comments, ROTL.

Need I go on?

Where’s Rove?

BillE @ 14:

OT Interview with John Yoo

I particularly like his answer that the memos were not for public consumption and lacked a certain polish. I didn’t know that bull shit could double as polish, maybe a floor cleaner.

Or a dessert topping. [Very old SNL reference. First or second season, maybe]

Just my gut feeling,
Heather

However, funny you should mention the CFR, as I just left a comment two threads more recent than this one — Sheldon Whitehouse was a guest on KO’s show tonight, which I only got to view around 10 pm PST on my InternetMachine.

When KO gives an intro, wow, does he ever pack in content!
Anyway, about 1:28 into KO’s intro on the topic of the Truth Commission, leading up to his interview with Sheldon Whitehouse, KO shows a clip of Rivkin. And KO mentions that Rivkin is with the CFR. Which prompted me to have a fuzzy recollection of some snarky tidbit (perhaps at TPM) that the vile and despicable Eliot Abrams had landed a cush spot at CFR. So I googled it…. and sure enough, that’s where the bastid hung his hat: http://www.cfr.org/bios/1567/elliott_abrams.html

And as for ’standards’… I aspire to them, but rarely achieve them.
‘Immature performing’? Not.
Just tired on a weekday evening.
Will work on those ’standards’ some other day after some sleep…