THE DUMMYCRATS STRIKE AGAIN

What in the hell were the democrats thinking when they voted in the new surveillance bill? They not only allowed Bush to trample all over the Constitution and rape the fourth amendment, they helped him do it by giving him more than he asked for.

Can you imagine 16 democratic senators and 41 democratic House members voting in favor of a bill that will give Bush even more freedom to trash our rights. By a vote of 60 to 28 the Senate passed a measure that enhanced his powers of warrantless wiretapping.

This new bill is not supposed to cover calls made within the US, but we only have Bush’s word that he will act with restraint and we all know how good his word is.

Also our lying attorney general, Alberto Gonzales is in charge of the oversight of this project. He gets to pick and chose who gets tapped. The wire taps are permitted to be reviewed only after the fact and the FISA court is restricted to a generic review of the warrants and has no power to inquire into individual cases.

Why would these democrats vote in favor of this bill? It could be one of several reasons or a bunch of them lumped together, but fear played a big part in the vote. The congressmen couldn’t allow themselves to be seen as soft of terror and they couldn’t risk voting it down and then being blamed for everything that might happen while they were on vacation.

They could have gone along for fear of dividing the county and they could just be plain-ass afraid to stand up to Bush.

Whatever the reason, the vote is in and we a stuck with this law for six months and you know how easily it can be made permanent. It is a bad law. It is a rights-fighting law and it is a law passed out of fear and the Cheney-Bush campaign of fear is relentless.

The California Curmudgeon