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Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow)
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Hold on. This is nuts. NO John McCain? Not on *any* of them? http://t.co/cc6vYwjLWW It's like it's not even really Sunday, then.
"to a more arbitrary government, or the transition from a popular government to an aristocracy or a monarchy." James Madison, 1795.
"Those truths are well established. They are read in every page which records the progression from a less arbitrary...
"in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both. No nation could reserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
"in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes and the opportunities of fraud growing out of a state of war, and...
"and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect...
"the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied...
"and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too...
"because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...
James Madison quote from the speech, in context. "Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded...
At 11PM Eastern @Chrislhayes is live #inners, and then we at TRMS will be live at midnight Eastern as well.
“You guys have invented this term, 'associated forces'... It renders the war powers of Congress null and void.” http://t.co/aLwDQbcjbk
I'll be on MSNBC an hour earlier than usual tonight, on @AllInWithChris at 8pm Eastern. Hallooo #inners!
Preceding from Charlie Savage & Leslie Kaufman's NYT piece on AP dragnet: http://t.co/fjvUVEQsAs
"The move at the time was criticized by Republicans as not going far enough.... Monday, however, Republicans said the admin went too far."
"We are all gay for Rachel Maddow's book." Oh, wonkette, I am gay for you, too. Thanks for the kind review! http://t.co/5fyL6kJl1G
Getting to that time in the traffic jam where people start giving up and driving across the median. #I-91. http://t.co/S1tdEqU0nV
Go ahead, follow @dcbigjohn right now, and read what he's writing late tonight. John is on to something you should read.
