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October 09, 2007

Why Democrats Suck

We all know Republicans suck. I mean, they tell you they’re going to rein in spending and then they borrow against our great-grandchildren’s money and spend it all turning the rest of the world against us. They say they’re pro-life and then they veto children’s health care. They talk about supporting small businesses, and then they support big corporations and their interests that are working to squeeze small businesses out - or swallow them up. I could go on, but we all know it. Republicans just plain suck. Well, guess what. Democrats suck, too. Why? Because they break their promises, too, and sometimes the results are even worse. This time, they promised us they would stop the Republicans’ efforts to steal away our civil liberties and now, due to lack of sufficient votes to rein in the Bush Administration, they are about to approve the very same broadened N.S.A. wiretapping authority they told us they would stop.

A Democratic bill to be proposed Tuesday in the House would maintain for several years the type of broad, blanket authority for N.S.A. wiretapping that the administration secured in August for just six months. But in an acknowledgment of civil liberties concerns, the measure would also require a more active role by the special foreign intelligence court that oversees the N.S.A.’s interception of foreign-based communications.

A competing proposal in the Senate, still being drafted, may be even closer in line with the administration’s demands, with the possibility of including retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that took part in the N.S.A.’s once-secret program to wiretap without court warrants.

No one is willing to predict with certainty how the issue will play out. But some Congressional officials and others monitoring the debate over the legislation said the final result may not be much different than it was two months ago, despite Democrats’ insistence that they would not let stand the August extension of the N.S.A.’s powers.

Obviously (at least to me), we need Republicans to keep their word and stem the spending, slow the growth of government, look after the economy, etc. But the things Democrats claim to be safeguarding are even more important. Civil liberties are the foundation of this country, not economics. When Republicans fail, it sucks, but when Democrats fail it really sucks.

I’d say it’s time to give the Democratic S.O.B.s a telephone call. You can find out how to contact your very own Democratic S.O.B. right here. (Of course, if you live in Oregon, your Democratic representatives probably are not S.O.B.s, but for the rest of the country, have at ‘em.)

Posted by Becky at October 9, 2007 09:17 AM