Frist comments on DeWine-Brown race
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist held a conference call with reporters today to talk about the upcoming Senate agenda. The Senate will be in session for about a month before adjourning until after the November elections.Asked what he thinks of Sen. Mike DeWine's re-election campaign against Rep. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from northern Ohio, and how important this race is to maintaining a GOP majority in the Senate, Frist said:
"It is a critical race. I recognize it is a very close race now. As the contrast between Mike DeWine and Sherrod Brown plays out over the next 60 days, I am confident that Mike DeWine will win."
Not exactly a surprise answer. But there ya go.
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at 8:36 PM, September 05, 2006 
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Post a Comment*Dear Dr. Frist,
With all due respect, I would think that, given your position in the United States Senate, you would be more interested in doing something like saving Medicare or Social Security than predicting a Mike Dewine victory in Ohio.
But then again, I guess things like that just won't play well in the Republican primary that's coming down the road in 2008.
It's a sad shame what our government has become. You have the power to do so much good and you are literally wasting the opportunity by selling Medicare to the insurance companies one patient at a time.
I am going to save Medicare and Social Security in my lifetime.
A man who truly caresa bout the people who live in Southern Ohio.
DeWine should have thought about that when he was casting all those votes with his liberal pals. I say let him go down and then in 2 years we'll get rid of his idiot son.
Just watch how Dewhine is willing to strip your rights:
It’s true. Dick Cheney is pushing Congress to allow the government to access Americans' conversations and emails without getting an individualized warrant.
The ACLU has been fighting in the courts and on Capitol Hill to halt the Bush administration's secret program of warrantless domestic spying. Just last month, we won a tremendous victory when the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan declared the National Security Agency program unconstitutional and called for an immediate halt to this abuse of presidential power.
Stand with us today to protect your privacy and the rule of law.
Even as this important civil liberties victory works its way through the courts, the White House is playing politics with our privacy to bolster their numbers and appear “tough on terrorism.” And now the Bush administration’s allies in Congress are scrambling to find ways to keep their illegal activities moving forward with two bills drafted under Dick Cheney's supervision.
The bills – scheduled for debate in Congress this week – would expand the president’s power, and allow for new ways to invade your privacy. Now is the time to tell Congress to protect your privacy and the rule of law.
The Cheney legislation is characterized by some as "surveillance we can live with," but it would vastly expand the government's power to search and spy on Americans without any individualized judicial check. It would even set government spies loose on any email you send if the government does not know where all the recipients are physically located.
We cannot allow our homes, cell phone records and email inboxes to be exposed to new kinds of government spying that are currently completely illegal. But we have a chance to stop these bills this week, before White House pressure drives them to a speedy vote.
The Cheney bills are worse than the powers ceded to the government by the Patriot Act, and would write into law what is now the administration's belief that the president can wiretap any American he wants without any check required by the Fourth Amendment or without any meaningful check to protect individual rights. If these bills pass, nothing will prevent government agents from unilaterally targeting Americans for indefinite secret surveillance without cause. That’s not America; with your help, we will ensure these bills do not pass. Please take action today to protect your privacy and the rule of law.
Your voice is critical right now. Please take action today.
Sincerely,
Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director
American Civil Liberties Union
P.S. Don't be deceived by claims that these bills will protect your privacy and restore judicial review. To learn more, visit our website.
This letter was sent:
Sep 6, 2006
Senator Mike DeWine
United States Senate
140 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-0001
Dear Senator DeWine,
To preserve the role of Congress and the courts in the fundamental
rule of law, please oppose any new spying legislation that includes
the dangerous proposals from Vice President Dick Cheney which are now
under consideration in both the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.
In the Senate, S. 2453 would enshrine in federal law the president's
claim of inherent, exclusive power to wiretap Americans at will and
indefinitely without any individual, independent check. It would also
empower government spies to monitor Americans' e-mails, if the
government does not know whether all the recipients are physically
located in the U.S.
Supporters claim the Cheney-Specter and Cheney-Wilson bills are
"surveillance we can live with," but the fact is these
so-called compromises vastly expand the government's power to spy on
Americans without any individualized warrant, and the surveillance
could be approved without a court ever knowing the names of Americans
to be spied on, or whether they've done anything wrong.
The Cheney-backed proposals would rewrite the provisions of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to allow permanent and secret
warrantless surveillance of Americans' international communications.
But this rewrite isn't necessary, because FISA already gives
intelligence agencies the power to begin a wiretap in an emergency and
then get court approval if an American is aiding a foreign terrorist.
FISA doesn't require the administration to "hang up" if an
al Qaeda operative calls someone in America. If the administration
wants to target the communications of a U.S. person who is conspiring
with al Qaeda, it can easily get a warrant from the FISA court. In
fact, FISA has approved over 20,000 surveillance orders in the past 27
years, and turned down fewer than .0005 such requests.
There is no reason to go around the court unless the administration
wants to monitor people who are doing nothing wrong, which is
fundamentally contrary to our Fourth Amendment rights.
No new surveillance powers should be granted to this or any
administration without a commitment to follow the laws already on the
books, and without independent checks to protect our civil liberties,
as required by our Constitution and recommended by the 9-11
Commission.
This effort to define away Americans' basic rights must be recognized
as the executive power grab that it is, and rejected. I look forward
to hearing your thoughts on this urgent matter.
OH NO! JIM PARKER!!
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