telecom

Open Left reports that all of the candidates challenging incumbents and having more than $500,000 on hand (hence, the handle "major") report that they favor net neutrality (initiative to keep a robust internet available to all rather than only making it available for a few who will pay more), even though some have accepted hefty campa

Kia Franklin responds to Barack Obama's video-address to a progressive bloggers' conference in Austin, Tx, pointing to the higher stakes of FISA:

"It is no more a waste of time to oppose telecom immunity now than it was to oppose school segregation in the 1950s when the majority of Americans were ambivalent about desegregation." - Mike Byrd

It burns my ass when liberals start talking about civil liberties, as if they have any credibility on the issue. At least one liberal blogger is talking common sense on this subject, but not even he would be doing so if not for the need to defend his messiah.
Setting aside telecom immunity, what is so [...]

How should Obama supporters be feeling after The One stabbed them in the back, voted for FISA and handed a corrupt and authoritarian president yet another victory?

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

Russ McBee sees a silver lining in the cloud that is telecom immunity:

Well, its something. In the cloture vote today regarding the Medicare payments bill, Sens. Alexander and Corker broke with their party to allow the bill to be voted on in the Senate.

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: