The Democratic Party's Hot Ass Mess (with a Republican Party addendum)

It's been a fascinating weekend. On Saturday news broke out that The Boston Globe endorses Barack Obama and John McCain while the Des Moines Register endorses Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

During that same time, Newsweek published "The Sleeper" (on the cover, that is, because inside the atory is called, "The Road Warrior"), an eye-popping quasi-endorsement of the "I'm not dead yet" campaign-machine called John Edwards.

To one-up everybody in sight Joe "I am the heir of Zell Miller" Lieberman exclamates his passion for John McCain.

All this is happening during a weekend littered by the exchange of blogospheric emails and posts on the subject of Chris Dodd's coming filibuster of Harry Reid's FISA. The alleged leader of the Senate Majority announced last Friday he was going to introduce the Judiciary Committee's version of the "Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act" which would grant, among many other wrongs, immunity to the telecoms for aiding and abetting George Bush and Alberto Gonzales in their illegal spying schemes.

Yes, you read that right : The leader of the democratic party senators is going to try to pass a law to give immunity to the telephone, cable, internet and mobile companies that helped Bush, Cheney and Gonzales lay the ground for spying on anybody with a phone line, internet connection or mobile device in this country.

Can you tell now why I consider the Democratic Party the Hot Ass Mess du jour?

Especially because if you look at memeorandum, all the bloggers that are rounding about the FISA fiasco are part of the "inner circle" of netrooters that gets called for this kind of stuff all the time.

You would have thought that Chris Dodd's people (yes, I am looking at you Matt Hamlin-Browner), would reach out to the people who would be immediately affected by surveillance, illegal or otherwise.

In Puerto Rico we had the "Caso Maravilla" explode the "Carpetas Negras" incident. I have written here and there about how it became alarming and eventually fashionable to have a black folder chock-full of the illegal FBI surveillance done on you. People even started measuring their status as a true izquierdista by the size of their folders (if you had boxes full of FBI and CIA materials, you had Ché like status).

Native Americans. African Americans. Middle Eastern. Heck, even the Irish and Jewish activists of this country at one point or other have been the target of illegal surveillance and harassment by the US paramilitary forces.

You would have "thunked" that white liberal bloggers would engage in this FISA fiasco their counterparts of color. But no. Now that it actually is affecting "regular" people (and, gasp! the kind that can pay for internets and iPhones) there's no time for chit-chat. And beside, we're only good for them when it comes to the "non-wedge" issue they call "immigration".

Goes to show how the Democratic Party is a HOT ASS POLITICAL MESS.

And with that thought : I think it's really interesting that republicans are latching on to McCain given a fundie nutjob like Huckabee is the front runner and Ron Paul just destroyed the record for the most money raised online in one day. I guess those $6 million are really making the Capitol Hill Republigentsia fudge their little hawkish pants.

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