This has me bummed and very angry though:

69-28

And this:

"With one vote, Congress has strengthened the executive branch, weakened the judiciary and rendered itself irrelevant," said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. "This bill - soon to be law - is a constitutional nightmare. Americans should know that if this legislation is enacted and upheld, what they say on international phone calls or emails is no longer private. The government can listen in without having a specific reason to do so. Our rights as Americans have been curtailed and our privacy can no longer be assumed."

We'd like to know a little bit about your for our files
We'd like to help you learn to help yourself.
Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes,
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home.

Hide in the hiding place where no one ever goes.
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes.
It's a little secret just the Robinsons' affair.
Most of all you've got to hide it from the kids.

Koo-koo-ka-choo, Mrs. Robinson,
Jesus loves you more than you will know.
God bless you, please, Mrs. Robinson.
Heaven holds a place for those who pray,
Hey, hey, hey

Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon.
Going to the candidate's debate.
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this you lose.

But look at what happened to Ned Lamont.  The greatest number of people will say either "No unknown will beat the Republican" or "Look at all the seniority OurGuy has; you want to give that up?"

I'm serious.  Half of them think she voted yes on the 2005 bankruptcy bill.   So it's a pattern.  Its substantiated.

I also want to cry.  So, this is the choice now: between two candidates who have no regard for the Constitution. And I think it's even more egregious from someone who studied and taught constitutional law! I do not want to vote for such a candidate.  

However, I cannot in any way vote for continued Republican economic policies and so much else.  Senator McCain doesn't have a clue what to do about economics and much of what he says about foreign policy is downright scary.

So ... take a deep breath ...
I have always believed firmly that in a two-party system, it is a zero-sum gain.  If you vote for one, you deny the other a vote.  I believe that if I don't vote for the Democrat, then I am de facto handing a vote to the Republican.

What a freaking disappointment these people are.

::shakes head::

And Whitehouse?? Has anyone here who is a constituent called his office to ask why he's gone off like this? Did someone slip him a mickey finn?

Gallup tracking poll has him down to only a 2-point lead -- too close to call -- two days in a row now.

And tossing out the two-week-old poll -- an outlier, anyway -- on realclearpolitics.com, the average of a handful of polls has it down to about 4 points.

And Rasmussen has the solid votes in the electoral college at 200 for Obama, more than 70 away from what he will need.  And electoral college votes in very weak Dem states number almost 100 on electoral-vote.com.

Obama wants that power, folks, or he would have gone against this bill and used his leadership position to try to persuade his supporters to vote against it.

The ACLU will be bringing suit (or trying to) against this version of FISA.

And this is hardly the first time that the Dems have joined with the R's to enable and protect BushBoy. They also decided to protect the Reagan-Bush I miscreants who attacked the Constitution and did very bad things.

Then, those same miscreants came back into power under Bush II to do yet more bad, bad, bad things to our nation and the world.