Poetry News For February 17, 2008
Poetry News:
- — The Paranoiac and the Paris Review —
- — The irony of depression is that the pervasive sadness that pierces the heart connects the haikuist to the everyday world of necessity —
- — this remarkable, eccentric, and impressionistic family history by our province’s former Poet Laureate —
- — He is recurrently snippy about poetry, because poets, indifferent to other people and concerned only with ‘the strenuous display of style’, write primarily about themselves —
- — ‘Cartography of Water’ shows great promise for poet, new publisher —
- — Muse who milked the vile young King —
S. 2248: FISA Amendments Act of 2007
No Vote: IL Obama, Barack [D]
No Vote: NY Clinton, Hillary [D]
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COWARDS
Of course McCain voted yes. He scares the hell out of me. My Senators, Lamar Alexander & Bob Corker also voted yes to extend the Protect America Act provisions of FISA. It failed in the House though. 
And the House passed HR 982 this week “… recommending that the House of Representatives find Harriet Miers and Joshua Bolten, Chief of Staff, White House, in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with subpoenas duly issued by the Committee on the Judiciary and for the adoption of the resolution (H. Res. 980) authorizing the Committee on the Judiciary to initiate or intervene in judicial proceedings to enforce certain subpoenas.” [way back during the Attorney General firings investigations]
Lots of “NO VOTE” cowards are listed for that. Including my Rep. Marsha Blackburn.
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