Politicians


Right, Left, or "middle," you've got to keep tabs on those who purportedly support your views (Howard Dean).

It's up to the people to watch what their elected officials get up to. If not watched, they'll pretty clearly do anything for a big enough check (Duke Cunningham).

Truthfully, as much as I'd like to be part of a big "club," I'm not so much a Democrat as I am against the current administration's we-can-do-no-wrong policies, but more damning, its incompetencies (Economist article Axis of Feeble).

Oh, right, and the whole wire-tapping outside the laws we always thought protected us from such an invasion of privacy--that's worrisome. Via Scrivener, Matt Yglesias:

One thing the Bush administration says it can do with this meta-data is to start tapping your calls and listening in, without getting a warrant from anyone. Having listened in on your calls, the administration asserts that if it doesn't like what it hears, it has the authority to detain you indefinitely without trial or charges, torture you until you confess or implicate others, extradite you to a Third World country to be tortured, ship you to a secret prison facility in Eastern Europe, or all of the above. If, having kidnapped and tortured you, the administration determines you were innocent after all, you'll be dumped without papers somewhere in Albania left to fend for yourself.


Posted: Fri - May 12, 2006 at 09:50 AM          

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