as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it

[temvald]

So today the Democratic-controlled House decided that it is more important to protect AT&T and the Bush Administration than it is to uphold the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, and passed the 'compromise' version of the FISA Amendment bill. This basically says that it is indeed illegal for the government to spy on American citizens without a

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[inthatoneway]

The trick isn't to punish all the Democrats. It's to seperate the good ones from the spineless ones, and just punish the later. I can't prove it, but some dems with guts must exist out there somewhere. They need to be found and encouraged.

[temvald]

There are some--on this issue, Dodd and Feingold in the Senate, for instance. I don't know who was leading the opposition in the House.

I guess that's the 'better' part of the slogan 'more and better Democrats.'

[rikchik]

My representative voted nay - which is actually kind of annoying, since there's nobody I can punish for this.

[temvald]

Yeah. Mine too; Markey is actually the chair of the House Telecom committee, and a vocal opponent of retroactive immunity. You'd think in a sane world he'd have some sort of say over this.