| So, when the news broke that there would be this history-making campaign event in a tiny town twenty minutes away, I started scrambling. I had long ago made plans to be away for a couple of days, and was going to leave tomorrow around noon. Much of yesterday was spent figuring out how to push this back, and modify that, and do the other earlier rather than later, so that with just enough luck I could be present for history.
Unfortunately, just as I thought I had everything figured out, I came across this from an Obama presser yesterday: My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests of the American people." I think with those words we don't have to wait for history to be made - a new chapter of it has just been written in the long tale of encroaching executive power in this country. So I'm not really digging so much anymore the idea of cheering on the next president tomorrow. Instead, I'll stick to my earlier plan of getting myself east of Unity on Friday.
If any Hamsters will be at the event, please consider writing it up. A personal entry (with pics, if possible) would be great for us to front-page here.
p.s. The end of the quarter is coming. Please consider giving what you can to Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes, who, though first-year reps in districts by no means secure, courageously held the line on telecom immuity.
p.p.s To the mischief makers who would use this post to leverage a boost for McCain, forget about it. Warmongerers who treat Granite Staters like country rubes to be lied to have no place on my ballot. Barack Obama is in so many ways a fundamental change from what we have had that I will work my heart out for him, and I'm no purity voter. I just can't in good faith be a cheerleader right on the heels of this FISA business.
p.p.p.s. Any and all suggestions on how politically to punish Steny Hoyer for this situation are most welcome. |
