Condolences
Rothschild, Matthew
Editor's Note Matthew Rothschild Condolences George Bush started off the new year the way he ended the old one, lying about the NSA spying program. Speaking to wounded soldiers at the Brooke Army...
...Speaking to wounded soldiers at the Brooke Army Medical Center, Bush couldn't even explain the NSA program properly without hedging about it, saying more than once, according to The New York Times, that the eavesdropping was "limited to calls from outside the United States to calls within the United States...
...Senator William Proxmire died on December 15...
...Bush appears to agree with Nixon, who said, "When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal...
...Rothschild speak, I didn't have an opportunity or a lot of time to do the research on the type of speech he would give and how he would present it for the kids," Valenza told the paper...
...In his essay entitled "Seeds of Revolt," Proxmire wrote that the citizens of this country "are worried that America has lost her leadership in the world, that we are bungling our way from crisis to crisis...
...Senate for thirty-two years, was a familiar byline in this magazine...
...But two days before the event, I was yanked from the program...
...My condolences go out to his widow, Ellen, who also wrote for us about campaign finance reform, and to his entire family...
...It's that little clause, "within the law," that's at issue here...
...Senate in a quarter of a century...
...This month, we explore the NSA scandal in our Comment, and Ruth Conniff and Molly Ivins discuss it in their columns, as well...
...He made his appearance in October 1957, on the occasion of his upset victory when he became the first Democrat to represent Wisconsin in the U.S...
...Proxmire may be best remembered for his "Golden Fleece" awards exposing absurd government expenditures...
...And he noted the "deep concern" among the populace "over the influence of 'big money' in shaping American policy...
...it is the way of life of such a society...
...Condolences, as well, to our friends at Monthly Review and to the family of Harry Magdoff The man who co-edited that radical magazine with Paul Sweezy for three decades died on January 1. In 1969, Magdoff wrote The Age of Imperialism, which contains this bracing line: "Imperialism is not a matter of choice for a capitalist society...
...The principal of Columbus High School, Connie Valenza, told The Capital Times that the teacher who had invited me failed to clear my name with her...
...Proxmire took Joe McCarthy's old seat after the disgraced Senator died...
...For your irony file: I was invited to speak to a high school social studies class about McCarthyism at a theater in Madison before the students saw Good Night, and Good Luck...
...A recent Harris Interactive poll showed that about 90 percent of the American public believes that big business has too much power...
...Proxmire, who served in the U.S...
...Afterward, his aides had to come to his rescue and say that he misspoke, that the NSA in fact is also eavesdropping on calls originating from the United States...
...I've never heard Mr...
...As he is wont to do, Bush invoked 9/11 several times...
...I was to speak for all of ten minutes...
...That concern is sure still with us...
...But I believe he deserves most credit for giving 3,000 speeches in favor of the Convention Against Genocide, which the Senate finally ratified in 1988...
...After that day, I vowed to use all the resources at my disposal, within the law, to protect the American people," he said...
...It's an issue of enormous weight...
Vol. 70 • February 2006 • No. 2
