I was driving to work this morning when I heard Mike McConnell interviewed briefly on NPR's Morning Edition. Among other things, he stated twice that "liability protection" for the telecoms was necessary, because they were being sued for billions of dollars, and the "fiscal responsibility" of the boards of the telecoms was forcing them to be "less cooperative" with the government's surveillance program.

I was reading several different items today that seemed to come together. I'll see if I can make a coherant thought from them.

I know this is a little late with the veto vote having taken place today, but I wanted to share the email I got from my Congresscritter after I emailed her asking her to vote to override.

For those of you unfamiliar with her, Michele Bachmann is the "Hugger-in-Chief" who gained brief notoriety with her near-mugging of Bush after the State of the Union speech last January. (Apparently, Bush enjoyed it!) She's a freshman Republican in the Minnesota 6th District, which runs from St Cloud across the northern suburbs of Minneapolis-St Paul, to the Wisconsin border. There's a strong anti-choice element across the district, including the strongly Catholic St Cloud area and the heavy sprinkling of Dominionist wingnut megachurchs.

I sent an e-mail to WaPo "fashion writer" Robin Givhan in response to her article, "Hillary Clinton's Tentative Dip Into New Neckline Territory", after I read MissLaura's diary.

In light of the diary yesterday regarding McConnell's recent poll numbers, I thought this story from The Hill was interesting:

Patty's still running behind, but may be gaining