Sipsey Street Irregulars: I must say I'm pleasantly surprised, but this is my congressman.

Friday, July 26, 2013

I must say I'm pleasantly surprised, but this is my congressman.

Only one member of Alabama's congressional delegation votes to defund NSA's collection of phone records

The House of Representatives has turned back a measure that would have stopped the National Security Agency from collecting phone data from millions of Americans, with all but one member of the Alabama congressional delegation voting to allow the controversial program to continue. Birmingham Republican Spencer Bachus was the lone member of the Alabama Legislative Delegation to support an amendment that would strip funding from the NSA program.

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SWIFT said...: It was expected that my congressman, Mike Kelly, would vote pro-NSA. He ran as a Tea Party candidate, and upon election, was the first to go mainstream. He appears to be joined at the butt with John Boehner. As a consequence, he gets appointed to important committees, while true Tea Party congressmen are relieved of committee membership by Boehner. North Western Pennsylvania seems to get one shit bag after another in the congress.; July 26, 2013 at 6:35 AM
Anonymous said...: That's a shame. I like Mike Kelly(R-PA). He got a standing ovation for his oration in committee, which is rare and discouraged. I just fired off a letter to Billy Long(R-MO) because he voted no on the same issue. There doesn't seem to be a way to scare the congress critters into voting the correct way once they have succumbed to the evils of the D.C. beltway politics.
HnMO; July 26, 2013 at 8:49 AM
Anonymous said...: Amazing! A pleasant surprise

- Old Greybeard; July 26, 2013 at 8:50 AM
Anonymous said...: Huh!!!

Blind squirrel

Stopped clock

I wouldn't read anything into it.; July 26, 2013 at 1:45 PM
Bri2301 said...: Ya'll got me curious... I'm glad to see that my Rep, Michael Burgess supported the amendment. He's usually dependable, but a little verification never hurts.

Time for an "atta-boy" email!

Jeff B.; July 27, 2013 at 8:51 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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I must say I'm pleasantly surprised, but this is my congressman.

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