Date: 2007-10-26 06:33 pm (UTC)
Re: telecom immunity:

Chris Dodd has definitely gained some of my respect. I'm kind of worried that Dianne Feinstein is going to vote yes on this in committee, because that's just the kind of move she's known for. I hold out hope for the other five not-yet decided Democrats and even a slight amount for Republicans Arlen Specter and Lindsey Graham. Of course, even if retroactive immunity is stopped in committee it can be brought back as an amendment to the bill.

And...Giuliani is an authoritarian thug; news at 11. He's really the one GOP candidate who scares me the most, because he has the same people and ideas behind him that were responsible for the Iraq War and the push for the unitary executive, probably the two most worst policy areas of the Bush administration. The other GOP candidates are bad but each of them has a silver lining: McCain is slightly more moderate on torture, for example. Romney talks madness with his "triple Guantanamo" and "Osama--er Barack Obama" moments, but I have a sense he'd be a Reaganesque disaster, which is an improvement over Bush or Giuliani. The two dark horses who will have any further influence on the campaign--theocon Huckabee and states-rights militia nut Paul--are more moderate on both the war and the unitary executive, and their madness is more constrained to areas that are less general threats to Constitutional government. Giuliani makes all of them look good by comparison, and that's saying a lot.
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