All the apparent differences between the Democrats and the Republicans are superficial at best. They are all selfish, thieves, liars and cowards. One difference is that the Republicans show their cowardice by being bully’s, and the Democrats by cowering and doing nothing in the hope it just goes away. Or to put it another way, the GOP are predators, they Dem’s are prey. 🙂

Nice choice you have in the coming election. Good luck with that.

You don’t gut the Fourth Amendment to score points.

I’m hoping there are still 41 Americans left in the Senate to stop this thing, because Hoyer and Pelosi have surrendered the House.

what democrat was going to risk their chances of re-election by not doing whatever it took to get those funded?

i was reading some essays earlier about how leftists are their own worst enemies for being such purists and demanding unreasonable purity from politicians whose job after all is to make deals with the opposing side. ’tis true, to some extent, but at what point do you draw the line? i’d have said further left than this, even at my most pragmatic of moments.

not to mention that the democrats have also changed their refrain from the republicans made us do it! to yeah, we showed them, they can’t keep us from passing our domestic agenda!.

i don’t remember where i read it, but pelosi [i think it was her] actually said something to that effect, that all this bargaining showed that the democrats had stood up to the white house and to congressional republicans on important domestic issues.

are they that stupid that they believe that, or do they just think we’re stupid enough to believe it?

This is not what I intended when I voted straight Democratic for most of two decades. If this passes as it stands, the Democratic Party can forget about my active support.

See Glenn Greenwald for a couple more truly horrifying details about this bill. Example: the AG can not merely order the courts to dismiss a lawsuit against the telecoms; he can force them to do so in virtually complete secrecy as to reasons, documents, etc. … secrecy not only from public view, but also from plaintiffs’ attorneys.

That rumbling is not a distant earthquake; it is our Founders turning in their graves.