I’m going to have to wait a couple of days to write about what epic failures some congressional Democrats have managed to become. Greenwald notes:
when the Congress was controlled by the GOP — when the Senate was run by Bill Frist and the House by Denny Hastert — the Bush administration attempted to have a bill passed very similar to the one that just passed today. But they were unable to do so. The administration had to wait until Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took over Congress before being able to put a corrupt end to the scandal that began when, in December of 2005, the New York Times revealed that the President had been breaking the law for years by spying on Americans without the warrants required by law.
For a short (and well done) spoon fed summary of what it was the Democrats accomplished today, here’s Rachel Maddow and GW law professor Jonathan Turley:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmot0aZy4MM[/youtube]
For a more detailed analysis of what went down today, just go read Greenwald. I’ll be busy here sorting through the epithets. It may take a while.
Peej
Who knew all the years of self-imposed censorship conditioned by justified paranoia and absolute knowledge that all our communications to the US were recorded and/or read is going to come in handy now. And people think you learn no handy life skills in the Middle East.
Jesus.
Amit
does this change your vote? I don’t think the “election year” excuse can fly for democrats in this situation. Funny thing is that McCain didn’t vote for it and Obama did. ;-)
MB
Change the vote to who? The man who wants to embrace and extend most every failed policy of the Bush Administration? The one who can’t wait to jump into another war? Yeah, I think so.
No, there’s no excuse here for the Democrats. Of course, that doesn’t make the Republicans any more palatable as an alternative.
And of course McCain didn’t vote for it. He doesn’t vote for anything! (61.8% of votes missed, this Congress) Gotta rest, I guess.