outsourcing pot busts to BLACKWATER. ridiculous. at least they found something for them to do other than kill innocent Iraqis.

what a waste of taxpayer money.

@#76 Antinous

you are right. his total number of vetos is low. that's becuase of the long standing republican majority that was just broken up. now that it isn't there he is vetoing, even when it gets overturned easily! http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN15294660

@25 XOPL

read the bill if you dare. that is a big piece of this legislation. if you were instead to listen only to the MSM and apparently places like boingboing and mark F you would think that obama was giving into everything the repulicans wanted, and fliped his position on it totally.

NOT TRUE. the bill allows for domestic warrants to be required a la FISA. THIS WAS NOT IN PLACE BEFORE THIS BILL.

let us not be lemmings. it is not a perfect bill, but when you have a veto happy president (at this point), and a non effective majority, you are gonna have to live with imperfection at the moment.

@11

do you even understand the issue? the bill that obama did vote for and everyone is whining about does require that a warrant is obtained through the FISA court for domestic wiretaps. UGH this bill does not cover international wiretaps. it's called a compromise. this was not all or nothing, this was nothing or compromise.

what a great way to ignorantly encapsulate a complicated constitutional issue!

A. Let's defeat the bill and continue to allow illegal wiretaps on all communication, international and domestic, without recourse by the FISA courts

OR

B. Let's pass the bill as a stopgap, that now puts restrictions on domestic wiretapping and makes the FISA court accountable to upholding the law for once.

hmmmm B seems like the better choice to me, put that on a poster MARK

where can i find this code? i bought one before then, but don't see the details for this...!?

this was much more widespread than oct 5-9. i tried signing up back in late august or early sept and nothing happened. i sent and email to marc and got nothing either.