Qwest did, however, at least know they would be sued if they got involved, which is more than the other suck up telecoms.
The media and Repubs are going to attack them no matter what they do, so they may as well do right and get ready to launch the first assault, rather than counter-punching.
BTW, windsurfing is a hell of lot cheaper than a bass boat, and we don’t get the waves to make normal surfing worth bothering with.
Monday is the State of the Union, I would think they planned on attending because the media coverage will be focused there. They are still Senators, and should try to act like it.
]]>But I digress. Your basic point still stands; for whatever talk they’ve offered about standing up against the telecom immunity provisions that Gee Dub and Republicans are pushing, Barack and Hillary are so far missing in action on the actual battlefield. Every vote is going to count, and if they can’t – or won’t – see their way clear to scat on back to D.C. to take a stand on this issue, all the brave campaign rhetoric in the world will boil down to little more than cheap political chatter…
[and Qwest gets no pass from me; they have been in trouble in the west for years for sleazy and shoddy behavior and service. Their decision to say “hell no” to the Bush administration was spawned more out of the fear that they would be party to another in an exhausting series of lawsuits than some sort of patriotic sense of duty to their customers]
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