Now the Get FISA Right movement has spread far beyond Obama's campaign supporters. In Congress, the rush is on
Jon Pincus joins us to talk essential, nuts-and-bolts issues: Will Congress reauthorize certain parts of the Patriot Act? We also talk Roman Polanski's arrest and the immediate "rape apology" by half of Hollywood.
Today, on the anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation, activists are running a money bomb campaign to raise money for candidates to oust incumbents...
Three years ago, web activists were undeniable outcasts in Democratic politics and no bar outside of Berkeley could spell "netroots." Now, the movement has an open line to every player in the party.
If Obama's core value is unity, Democrats should know better than to expect him to fight their partisan fights for them. While he may disappoint them, they can also learn to respect the fact that he's being true to himself.
The Obama protest group remarkably started on the Obama website is now 24,000 members strong and continuing its fight against the FISA bill Obama helped pass today.
This group should work to defeat the FISA bill by pressuring enough senators to make sure it fails to pass. Instead, a great number of them are targeting Obama and so shooting themselves in the foot.
