Scaffolds in place: Blogosphere storming the Bastille!

(Author) “Can’t we all just get along?” Sure we can only it seems I have to first kick your ass to get your attention!

Wednesday June 18, 2008 16:49 EDT
Campaign against warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty is expanding
By Glenn Greenwald
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/18/fisa_campaign/index.html
Excerpt:
As of today, Hoyer has stopped falsely denying that he engineered this deal. He has also stopped falsely denying that it contains telecom amnesty. Instead, he is now offering the excuse that he had no choice but to negotiate it because "conservative" Democrats were threatening to support the Rockefeller/Cheney Senate bill and Hoyer was thus forced to negotiate the best deal he could. From CQ today:

And
Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, and Congressional Democrats
by jrwebb
Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 08:25:48 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/19/231827/335/223/538805
Excerpt:
I have not forgotten the past votes when members of your Democratic Party have voted to authorize war in Iraq, to pass draconian surveillance bills, to pass the Patriot Act and the Protect America Act. I have read the roll-calls, I am keeping tally. I have watched your cowardice as you triangulated the best political position and did not do everything within your power to bring our troops home. Your complicity sullies their sacrifice. How many thousands of dead soldiers have we accumulated since the Democrats won that majority?
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates (More than ever these days) WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB