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Some of your liberties were sacrificed today so that Big Telecom could be freer than you to divulge your perfectly innocent, but private correspondence to our Big Brother in the White House without any fear of retribution.  Barack Obama changed course and broke his

Progressive Nashville doesn’t appreciate how Senators Corker and Alexander switched up their votes on restoring doctors’ Medicare pay:

NYTimes has an editorial on Barack Obama's recent flip flops, of which the most regressive and Machivellian to me is his course change on telecom immunity and federal wiretapping:

Mr. Burton,

It deeply disturbs me that Barack Obama has voiced tentative support of HR 6304, the so-called "FISA compromise." I need Senator Obama to explain exactly why FISA, alone, is no longer sufficient to gather vital intelligence prior to his vote next week in the Senate on this legislation.

Yes, I have lots of news to pass along, and, I’ll be doing that shortly. 

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Gray Sasser called Republican Senator Lamar Alexander “somewhere in left field while Tennesseans spend a day’s wages to pay for a tank of gas.”

I will miss Russert in the morning. He was part of my Sunday morning media ritual. He was probably the best TV interviewer I ever saw. He knew the response before it was said and had the counter point. He was ready and willing to call people out when they would do political speak/ double talk. He had the old quote ready when they flip flopped.

The Senate Republican Campaign Committee doesn’t seem to have much confidence it itself these days: