The Day America Died

As I watched it happen an altered version of Don McLean's American Pie entered my head: "This will be the day America dies." As I heard the Republican Congressmen applauding the loss of Civil Liberties for the Americans they were elected to represent; the day of August 4th, 2007 burned into my mind in a way no date has since September 11th, 2001.

On August 3rd the bill the Bush Administration was pushing (coercing?) the House and Senate to vote on before their monthlong break was passed by the Senate. The Bill allows our own government to spy on its citizens, as long as the government claims the spying "concerns" Al Qaeda.

They can listen to our phone calls. Read our emails. You name it, they can do it. And on August 4th Congress made it official: They can now do it legally.

In the Senate not one Republican voted against the Spy Bill. And, even though we now have a Democratic majority, the majority still aren't democratic. 16 Democrats joined the Republicans and 1 Independent (guess who?) and all of them should be tried for treason.

This is the United States and a vote to spy on the American people goes against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and is nothing short of treasonous. I won't play with words and I think, at the very least, these Senators should be impeached if not exiled from the United States completely.

In the House 41 Democrats joined the treason party voting for the ironically titled "Protect America Act" and when time to vote came to an end and the bill was passed the Republicans cheered. And they cheered loudly. When I heard this I knew Americans were out of luck and this was the day my country died.

And I started singin', "Bye-bye Miss American ..." But then I stopped, worried Alberto Gonzales may listen.

These are the Democrats you shouldn't vote for ever again in the Senate:

Evan "Try 'em For Treason" Bayh (Indiana)
Tom "Try 'em For Treason" Carper (Delaware)
Bob "Try 'em For Treason" Casey (Pennsylvania)
Kent "Try 'em For Treason" Conrad (North Dakota)
Dianne ""Try 'er For Treason" Feinstein (California)
Daniel "Try 'em For Treason" Inouye (Hawaii)
Amy "Try 'er For Treason"Klobuchar (Minnesota)
Mary "Try 'er For Treason" Landrieu (Louisiana)
Blanche "Try 'er For Treason" Lincoln (Arkansas)
Claire "Try 'er For Treason" McCaskill (Missouri)
Barbara "Try 'er For Treason" Mikulski (Maryland)
Bill "Try 'em For Treason" Nelson (Florida)
Ben "Try 'em For Treason"Nelson (Nebraska)
Mark "Try 'em For Treason" Pryor (Arkansas)
Ken "Try 'em For Treason"Salazar (Colorado)
Jim "Try 'em For Treason" Webb (Virginia)

Even though he hasn't counted as a Democrat pretty much ever and had to run as an "Independent" last time, he must be named:

Joseph "Try 'em For Treason" Lieberman (Connecticut)

And in the House:

Jason "Try 'em For Treason" Altmire (4th Pennsylvania)
John "Try 'em For Treason" Barrow (12th Georgia)
Melissa "Try 'er For Treason" Bean (8th Illinois)
Dan "Try 'em For Treason" Boren (2nd Oklahoma)
Leonard "Try 'em For Treason" Boswell (3rd Iowa)
Allen "Try 'em For Treason" Boyd (2nd Florida)
Christopher "Try 'em For Treason" Carney (10th Pennsylvania)
Ben "Try 'em For Treason" Chandler (6th Kentucky)
Jim "Try 'em For Treason" Cooper (5th Tennessee)
Jim "Try 'em For Treason" Costa (20th California)
Bud "Try 'em For Treason" Cramer (5th Alabama)
Henry "Try 'em For Treason" Cuellar (28th Texas)
Artur "Try 'em For Treason" Davis (7th Alabama)
Lincoln "Try 'em For Treason" Davis (4th Tennessee)
Joe "Try 'em For Treason" Donnelly (2nd Indiana)
Chet "Try 'em For Treason" Edwards (17th Texas)
Brad "Try 'em For Treason" Ellsworth (8th Indiana)
Bob "Try 'em For Treason" Etheridge (North Carolina)
Bart "Try 'em For Treason" Gordon (6th Tennessee)
Stephanie "Try 'er For Treason" Herseth Sandlin (South Dakota)
Brian "Try 'em For Treason" Higgins (27th New York)
Baron "Try 'em For Treason" Hill (9th Indiana)
Nick "Try 'em For Treason" Lampson (23rd Texas)
Daniel "Try 'em For Treason" Lipinski (3rd Illinois)
Jim "Try 'em For Treason" Marshall (8th Georgia)
Jim "Try 'em For Treason" Matheson (2nd Utah)
Mike "Try 'em For Treason" McIntyre (7th North Carolina)
Charlie "Try 'em For Treason" Melancon (3rd Louisiana)
Harry "Try 'em For Treason" Mitchell (5th Arizona)
Colin "Try 'em For Treason" Peterson (7th Minnesota)
Earl "Try 'em For Treason" Pomeroy (North Dakota)
Ciro "Try 'em For Treason" Rodriguez (23rd Texas)
Mike "Try 'em For Treason" Ross (4th Arkansas)
John "Try 'em For Treason" Salazar (3rd Colorado)
Heath "Try 'em For Treason" Shuler (11th North Carolina)
Vic "Try 'em For Treason" Snyder (2nd Arkansas)
Zachary "Try 'em For Treason" Space (18th Ohio)
John "Try 'em For Treason" Tanner (8th Tennessee)
Gene "Try 'em For Treason" Taylor (4th Mississippi)
Timothy "Try 'em For Treason" Walz (1st Minnesota)
Charles A. "Try 'em For Treason" Wilson (6th Ohio)

Why aren't I listing the Republicans? Because only 2 in the entire United States Congress voted against this spy bill. Otherwise, the entire Republican side of Congress should be tried for treason.