I want your senator,

[uglybeech]

Vermonters. I just saw this great speech by Patrick Leahy. (video)

What has changed in the last five years that our Government is so inept and our people so terrified that we must do what no bomb or attack could ever do by taking away the very freedoms that define America? Why would we allow the terrorists to win by doing to ourselves what they could never do and abandon the principles for which so many Americans today and through our history have fought and sacrificed? What has happened that the Senate is willing to turn America from a bastion of freedom into a caldron of suspicion ruled by a Government of unchecked power?

I’ll trade you a Kennedy or a Kerry for him. Or both.