There is a great deal for Democrats to be upset about today. After all, 41 House Democrats and 16 Senate Democrats voted for the thoroughly rotten Protect America Act.
The Protect America Act:
Put more briefly, the Protect America Act gives Alberto Gonzales, along with John Negroponte, the operational ability to snoop on anyone they like. Without meaningful oversight for their spy operations, there will be no restraint upon their power.
It’s rotten that so many Democrats in Congress voted for the new Republican attack against freedom. The failure of those Democrats to live up their oaths of office should be punished by their constituents on Election Day.
However, there is a bright lining to this dark cloud. Not one of the Democratic presidential candidates voted in favor of the sinister Protect America Act.
Not Hillary Clinton
Not Chris Dodd
Not Dennis Kucinich
Not Barack Obama
Not even Joseph Biden
Those who say that the Democratic presidential candidates are indistinguishable from their Republican rivals ought to stop and consider this important difference. Not every Democrat does the right thing. Many Democrats do the wrong thing. However, these Democrats running for President in 2008, did the right thing. They stood by American liberty. That ought to count for something.
These dogs will vote against it while running, but if they get elected they will not repeal this disaster of a law and the other civil rights rip off laws that have been passed these last six years. They are only voting this way to give themselves political cover. The dems are in cahoots with the repubs!
The scientifically impossible I do right away
The spiritually miraculous takes a bit longer
“However, these Democrats running for President in 2008, did the right thing.”
One good point does not a clean record make.
Big Brother is coalescing and before too long it’ll be in place: cameras everywhere, listening devices we voluntarily carry around with us (cell phones), secret screening chips in passports etc. and neighbor spying on neighbor. What a lovely country Amerikkka has become.
Related is the fact that many states are now banning foods with “unhealthy” levels of X, Y, or Z. My state (WA) has banned smoking in public spaces and private spaces that are open to the public.
We don’t even have nationalized medicine yet, and the government wants to tell us how to live.
AHHH yes, the smell of burning witches in the air! If the American people don’t wake from their self imposed coma soon, we will all be dragged from our beds by the powers of King George and burned for heresy.