I'm still bracing myself for another eventual disappointment. As a liberal, this is a learned response.
But the House Dems, possibly learning something from the tremendous victory of Donna Edwards over Bush enabler Al Wynn, are, for the moment, standing tall.
We have a temporary win on FISA. Too bad the Senate couldn't have made this stand. But hey--I'll take it.
And they house voted to hold Miers and Bolton in contempt. If the DOJ doesn't act, which they say they won't, the House can go to court to enforce the citation. I wish it would happen faster. But hey--I'll take it.
And Pelosi made another important statement this week, saying that the superdelegates shouldn't overrule the will of Democratic voters. Good for her. A good week for the House Dems. I'll take some more, please.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
House Dems Standing Tall
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I just got an e-mail from Sen. Dodd's staff that includes the following comments:
"The United States Senate passed a bill Tuesday granting retroactive immunity to telecom companies that helped spy on Americans -- without a warrant.
"Pretty amazing ... Congress just sanctioned the single largest invasion of privacy in American history."
IT was the Dems that refused to put down their wounded pet Bill Clinton when his sex scandal got out of hand and on the dress. Had they done so, Gore might have been president today. GOP did not defend Nixon re: Watergate --to spare the country an impeachment trial. Democrats weren't so noble.
Now, the democrats want to work on getting even for alleged cronyism or political prejudice about the attorney firings --never mind all of the Clinton malfeasance with travel office firings with trumped up reasons --never mind all that history of filegate, Rose law firm-gate, the strange deaths of Vince Foster and others who were supposed to appear in trials re: Clinton problems. You want to get 2 ex-Bush officials for wanting their administration to have conservative attorneys in the A.G.'s office. What policy violation rises to the level of all the shenanigans that have been brought against Clintons in court by private groups like Judicial Watch? Let the private liberal groups go after these people on private dollars because their infractions don't rise to the level of evil we saw in the 90's.
You'll probably disagree with that statement, but we should agree that ALL of congress needs to clean up themselves and get on with the peoples' business, solving the peoples' problems that are worsened with the waste of gov't trials and investigations into practices and cronyism that are no different (though I think worse) when Dems are in power.
Good for Congress for absolving the telecom companies for their work with our security agencies.
What good are human rights if we are dead? Feds have every good reason to listen in on phone conversations between Islamic charities, etc., here and Muslims abroad. They can listen in on me when I'm talking with Faith and Family or Focus on the Family or any other group if they have any reason to suspect us of terrorism. We'll throw in some good scripture for them to listen to.
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