This would be a good time to remember that you don’t owe Bush or the neocons a goddam thing
Published by Kyso Kisaen February 12th, 2008 in A million ways to mortgage the future, PoliticsThe Senate gave Bush his precious telecomm immunity.
After nearly two months of stops and starts, the Senate rejected by a vote of 31 to 67 a move to strip away a grant of retroactive legal immunity for the companies…
The Senate also rejected two amendments that sought to water down the immunity provision.
One, co-sponsored by Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, would have substituted the government for the telecoms in lawsuits, allowing the court cases to go forward but shifting the cost and burden of defending the program.
The other, pushed by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, would have given a secret court that oversees government surveillance inside the United States the power to dismiss lawsuits if it found that the companies acted in good faith and on the request of the president or attorney general.
It’s up to you, House of Representatives. Please try representing us and our interests. It would be a refreshing change, and PS to Democrats: showing a little spine now would be oh so terribly helpful to your presidential hopefuls. Come on now, go on, show some spine. You can do it, we know you can!
I just don’t understand it. You’d think that standing up for the rights of people not to be spied upon by their government would be a fairly popular move with everyone but the hard-right 25%.
To appropriate a rather unpleasant phrase, the Democrats seem to never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.