I have a question for the Netroots.
It's been a puzzler, in fact.
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Regarding FISA:
Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and CARL HULSEWASHINGTON, Oct. 8 — Two months after insisting that they would roll back broad eavesdropping powers won by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress appear ready to make concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National Security Agency.
Administration officials say they are confident they will win approval of the broadened authority that they secured temporarily in August as Congress rushed toward recess. Some Democratic officials concede that they may not come up with enough votes to stop approval.
(Via Captain Ed)
...and regarding the war:
Democrats turn to traditional issues
By: Martin Kady IICongressional Democrats rode anti-war sentiment to victory last fall — but they are staking their success in the final months of this year’s calendar on more traditional domestic issues amid concern that the war may not be the potent political issue it once was by Election Day 2008.
With few Iraq votes expected in the next several weeks — a marked departure from the first nine months of the new Democratic-controlled Congress — Democrats are trying to build an agenda that’s heavy on health care, community policing, housing, tax reform and other issues.
“Iraq has always been the 800-pound gorilla in the room, but there are other issues to deal with,” said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). “We did well with our initial agenda. Now we need to move on to a broader agenda.”
Not quite true, Jimbo. We did well with your initial agenda - "we" being the neoconservatives, that is. As near as I can work out, we pretty much not only held our ground, we actually gained some in terms of political cover, bipartisan initiatives, and the slow-but-steady marginalization of the most obscene parts of the antiwar movement. Which leads to my question to the Netroots:
If the whole purpose behind your taking back Congress was to have them validate the neoconservatives' position on the GWOT, why on Earth didn't you just say so? We would have sent over a gift basket.
Moe Lane
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Led around like chickens being fed the corn, they follow any artificial issue drummed up by the media and used by the media's lackeys, the Democratic Party. Nothing is to self contradictory or shot full of holes that they won't buy it wholesale. It only has to be anti-Republican, and it helps if it can be described as a "threat to civil liberties".
This crap about the NSA program has been going on for at least four years and look where it winds up. You may be assured this news will be received with blank ignorance by the misfits self described as the "reality based community", barf!
But they still have the "Great Eight Lawyers" scandal to cling to, I think.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Democrat positions on the war including legal aspects such as the Patriot Act have been proven wrong (by their own words and failed actions). They have failed to do anything else in the interim, which we should believe is due to their focus on the war?
They will now fail in their attempt to use S-CHIP, a program meant for poor children, to extend socialized medicine to the middle class, adults and non citizens (all for a fallacious campaign issue).*
Now they have done what since being in office? Who's views have prevailed? What is their platform?
*Liberal use of "fail" is intentional
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