...just that the Senate is not full of good people.
If Emptywheel and Gleen Greenwald are to be believed, evil will almost assuredly triumph in the FISA/Telco immunity battle. The Senate is lining up to declare "Mission Accomplished" and then sell us all down the river.
Harry "DiNO" Reid has brokered a last minute compromise on FISA legislation and it would appear that the amendments that the GOP does not object to will be allowed to pass. The ones they don't like will be given a 60 vote threshold, and will die.
One of those is the immunity amendment. Which brings up the question of why on earth did the Democratic Majority Leader bring the bill with immunity to the floor?
Harry Reid has advanced the immunity cause to the point where you wonder - what on earth is compelling this man?
Write your rep in congress - if the Senate caves, the only place to stop this is in the House.
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The party of inclusion likes to include nominal democrats. It also likes to put those nominal democrats in charge. It further seems to have decided to put democrats with unsafe seats in charge. Ever hear of him before his leadership? Republicans put their must combative and partisan members in charge (R > 1/2D). As from your previous post, the Republicans have purged their party of individuals, the Dems have not. Oh yeah, and they do this shit all the time, this is just one time being noticed.
Democracy in name only. See signing statements which have not even raised a serious issue with our Congress. Only on the Daily Show.
This is a lovely example of why the two party system is a giant waste of time. The system sucks and the parties suck. Our elected officials are more worried about advancing the agenda of the party machine than working for us. The way to meritocracy in US politics is to remove the little letter that comes after each candidate's name. It wouldn't be immediate, but pretty soon the lines would become muddied, and the American public would start voting for candidates based on their platforms. Either that, or the American public would get confused and not vote, leaving the elections to those of us who actually care enough to listen. Win/win, I think.
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