More On FISA Capitulation
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 6/21/08 @ 10:43 pm - Filed Under Featured, National Politics
After my previous diatribe about the Democrats caving to President Bush on the FISA amendment bill I thought I should write something more coherent and thought out. However, Hunter at Daily Kos (the best writer there IMO) already wrote something that captured my feelings exactly and probably in a way that’s more eloquent than I could hope to achieve. You can read the whole thing but here’s an excerpt:
Because of all the issues we’ve faced, in the last few years, this one was an absolute no-brainer, the one thing that the Democrats, no matter how stunningly incompetent, humiliatingly ineffective or bafflingly capitulating they may be, could manage to win simply by sitting on their damn hands. But no; it took serious work to lose on this one. Serious, burning-the-midnight-oil work to manage to quite so cravenly negate their own oversight duties.
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We can understand that voting against funding for the war could be risky, if we were to presume that Bush would simply keep the troops in the Iraqi desert to rot regardless of funding. But this one? This petty, stinking issue of granting retroactive immunity to companies that violated the law, such that they need not even say how they violated the law, or when they violated the law, or how often, or against who, and the whole thing started before 9/11 so it is clear that terrorism wasn’t even a prime factor for doing it — that whole mess is now absolved, no lawsuits, no discovery, no evidence allowed to be presented?
No, that one is indefensible. It is indefensible because it requires not just passive acceptance of a corrupt administration performing illegal acts, but legislators actively condoning those acts with the stroke of a pen. The Democrats are determined to set themselves as partners in committing crimes, then absolving them; there should be nothing but contempt for such acts.
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I also read this post over at Daily Kos and thought it summed things up well.
This is a sad day for Democrats.
Mike Sylvester
What is most sad is the loss of Checks and Balances. Any action taken by the President is now “protected by Executive Privilege”. And then by “Presidental Pardon”.
If the telecoms didn’t go alone with Bush, all this administration would have to do is have the FCC revoke their licenses.
It really doesn’t matter who breaks the law anymore. The occupant of the White House can take care of the little “bumps in the road”.