Here’s the lists of the FISA Fifty-Seven. The traitorous DemocRats who were stampeded into handing Bush and Gonzales the power to eavesdrop on us all w/o a warrant.

16 Senate Dem traitors
Evan Bayh (Indiana); Tom Carper (Delaware); Bob Casey (Pennsylvania); Kent Conrad (North Dakota); Dianne Feinstein (California); Daniel Inouye (Hawai‘i); Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota); Nancy Mary Landrieu (Louisiana); Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas); Claire McCaskill (Missouri); Barbara Mikulski (Maryland); Bill Nelson (Florida); Ben Nelson (Nebraska); Mark Pryor (Arkansas); Ken Salazar (Colorado); Jim Webb (Virginia)…

41 House Dem traitors
Jason Altmire (4th Pennsylvania)
Melissa Bean (8th Illinois) Blue Dog
Dan Boren (2nd Oklahoma) Blue Dog
Allen Boyd (2nd Florida) Blue Dog
Christopher Carney (10th Pennsylvania) Blue Dog
Ben Chandler (6th Kentucky)Blue Dog
Henry Cuellar (28th Texas)
Artur Davis (7th Alabama)
Lincoln Davis (4th Tennessee) Blue Dog
Joe Donnelly (2nd Indiana) Blue Dog
Brad Ellsworth (8th Indiana) Blue Dog
Bob Etheridge (North Carolina)
Bart Gordon (6th Tennessee) Blue Dog
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (South Dakota) Blue Dog
Brian Higgins (27th New York)
Baron Hill (9th Indiana) Blue Dog
Nick Lampson (23rd Texas) Blue Dog
Daniel Lipinski (3rd Illinois)
Jim Marshall (8th Georgia) Blue Dog
Jim Matheson (2nd Utah) Blue Dog
Mike McIntyre (7th North Carolina) Blue Dog
Charlie Melancon (3rd Louisiana) Blue Dog
Harry Mitchell (5th Arizona)
Colin Peterson (7th Minnesota) Blue Dog
Earl Pomeroy (North Dakota) Blue Dog
Ciro Rodriguez (23rd Texas) Blue Dog
Mike Ross (4th Arkansas) Blue Dog
John Salazar (3rd Colorado) Blue Dog
Heath Shuler (11th North Carolina) Blue Dog
Vic Snyder (2nd Arkansas)
Zachary Space (18th Ohio) Blue Dog
John Tanner (8th Tennessee) Blue Dog
Gene Taylor (4th Mississippi) Blue Dog
Timothy Walz (1st Minnesota)
Charles A. Wilson (6th Ohio) Blue Dog

BTW, Bush has already signed it into law….

Time to End the Dirty War in Iraq
By Tom Hayden, PDA Advisory Board member
August 2, 2007

Under current law, the Leahy amendment of 1997, US security assistance is prohibited to foreign security forces “against whom exist credible allegations of gross human rights.” The Bush Administration refuses to enforce the Leahy Amendment, citing “extraordinary circumstances.” But nothing prevents the Congress from suspending or cutting off funds for the training and equipping of Iraqi units that violate human rights.

Congress should open hearings into the evidence of a “dirty war” unfolding in Iraq.

One reputable think tank, the Center for American Progress [CAP] has concluded that the “arming, equipping, and training of Iraq’s security forces” should be phased out as rapidly as possible. [June, 2007 report].In this scenario, all US troops would be extracted from Iraq’s civil wars by the end of 2008. The continuing problems of humanitarian crisis, security breakdown, failed reconstruction and reconciliation would be taken up by an international effort approved by a new United Nations mandate as soon as possible.

Before asking why there is barely any discussion, much less action, to address these rampant human rights violations, it is necessary to summarize the devastating evidence.
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With the recent collapse of the bridge in Minnesota and the New York steam pipe explosion, this week’s Time Magazine cover story in which scientists are again ringing the alarm bells regarding New Orleans’ readiness for a severe storm, becomes even more critical. It is apparent that America has sold out this country’s infrastructure to fund the war in Iraq. The National Priorities Project has calculated the amount you as a taxpayer have spent as well as what all of this money could of bought for your community.

New Orleans Still In Grave Danger As Hurricane Season Arrives

In this week’s cover story coming in Time magazine tomorrow, Michael Grunwald finds in New Orleans a “pathetic” situation: Many of the same coastal scientists and engineers who sounded alarms about the dangers to that city before Hurricane Katrina are warning that the Army Corps of Engineers is “poised to repeat its mistakes—and extend them along the entire Louisiana coast …

“If you liked Katrina, they say, you’ll love what’s coming next … As the disaster’s Aug. 29 anniversary approaches, there will be plenty of talk about the future of New Orleans … But in the long run, recovery plans won’t matter much if investors, insurers and homesick evacuees can’t trust the Corps to prevent the city from drowning again.”

The cover shows a floodwall and the heading, “Special Report: Why New Orleans Still Isn’t Safe.” The deck reads: “Two years after Katrina, this floodwall is all that stands between New Orleans and the next hurricane. It’s pathetic. How a perfect storm of big-money politics, shoddy engineering and environmental ignorance is setting up the city for another catastrophe.”

The 12-page story is followed by gallery of photos of “The Displaced.”
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