by Rich Miles
Aug 4, 2007
Senate Gives in on Wiretapping. 16 Dems Go Along.
TWO UPDATES BELOW - Second update is to several links explaining this "legislation"
Was talking to a friend the other day, someone who, while of a progressive/liberal turn of mind, didn't USED to be very politically active.
Anyway, in the course of a conversation about how the Bushies seem dead set on world domination and fascism, she brought a tear to my eye with just one sentence.
She said, "I just get so tired of the bad guys winning all the time."
Even after the much-ballyhooed "November revolution" last year; even after the supposed "good guys" wrested control of not one but BOTH Houses of Congress from the forces of Darkness that had held sway over all for 6 years; even after it had started to appear that the People had awakened from their long slumber, and their elected representatives would live up to their obligation to serve those who elected them - even after all that, things like the top link keep happening.
Our alleged "good guys" keep knuckling under to the neocons. Even some of our totemic heroes, like Claire McCaskill and Jim Webb, voted FOR this extension of even greater tyranny to the Bush administration.
Got it? They made evil LEGAL. It used to be ILlegal, but they made it LEGAL. They did it just because the Bush center of evil told to them to.
So now, one has to ask:
What hope can there be? Who can we turn to now, when even those we elected to save America haven't the courage to stand up to this batch of unalloyed evil that is the Bush White House?
How can the good guys EVER win again?
Or perhaps the real question is - are there any good guys left?
UPDATE: The House of Representatives passed the bill.
They politicked it absolutely perfectly. Beat the ASSES of the Democrats, practically (and in 41 cases, actually) forced them each and severally to press that Yea button.
How long is this going to go on? How long is the minority going to keep calling the shots? This bill could have been defeated if all the Democrats had voted against it - but 41 so-called "librul Dems" voted FOR giving this corrupt and fascistic administration even MORE power to fuck us.
Could someone please tell me: why is this new law NOT the same thing as the White House saying, "We know Alberto Gonzales is a total toady and fuckup. So we're going to give him vast new powers to spy on the American people"?
I mean, is there any other way to interpret this? And is there any other way to see the whole episode than as another nail in the coffin of the U.S. Constitution?
UPDATE 2: Links to the shit that hit the fan:
More Surveillance: No, Don't Stop to Think
It's Official, We Are a Police State (written by a former citizen of the Soviet Union)
The Stench of Weakness Pervades our Capital this Weekend
There are or will be more...
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2 comments:
Hello!
Very good posting.
Thank you - Have a good day!!!
Think of it as another stone that's going to sink both republicans in the general election AND Blue Dog dems in primaries next year.
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