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I turned on C-SPAN expecting to see some drama. Instead, we're congratulating each other on a railroad safety bill. I'm bored.

And I mean like the 'regular' Rimmer, not *Ace* Rimmer.

They had some success as the entrenched minority. When required to lead, they show only an instinct toward craven power-mongering. And in this case (yet again) Boehner, Blunt and gang have boxed them in.

Good job, boys.

It's war -- so when can we start shooting back at the enemy Democrats?

... Leader Boehner liked it as well!

Founder and contributor to The Minority Report and Senior writer for The Hinzsight Report

this.

"Just a reminder, the proposal Democrats are working against simply protects the ability of our intelligence agencies to protect America from Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda."

How could any American justify having voted for such people?

It included a provision that said we would continue to fight AL Quaeda ?

Before any of the rocket scientists on capitol hill decided on this course of action, did any of them check to see if AQ would pull their provisions about fighting us ?
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According to TPM, the reason Dems are unhappy with the amendment has to do with the motion to recommit "promptly," rather than to recommit "forthwith," as those two have two different effects procedurally.

The sad fact is that other than us political junkies, a majority of the American public will not know that the Dems are stalling on the bill because of this amendment, or that it contains absolutely ridiculous restrictions, which will complicate intelligence gathering activities beyond pre 9/11 difficulties, such as the stipulation that a warrant must be obtained before eavesdropping on a call with at least one person outside the U.S., the restrictions it places on soldiers on the battlefield, etc.

The Dems will feed the people their standard line about how they are standing up against the despicable Bush administration that seeks to eavesdrop on everybody with reckless disregard for the law. And Bush will respond by simply urging congress to pass the bill, instead of calling a press conference and explaining every one of the roadblocks the Dems are inserting into the bill, and explain that most of these actually restrict intelligence gathering further than it ever was, and flat out state the the Dems are being facetious in their description of the bill and playing politics. But he won't.

Republicans will get all excited because this "puts the Democrats on record." Some might even blog here at Redstate and tell us how grand this is. The problem is that all they are doing is preaching to the choir. They ought to be hitting the airwaves and print media like crazy in their districts to explain the facts to normal people, who generally only hear one point of view from the media, the left, when they hear anything at all. But again, they won't, they'll just write a little blog here or an oped in the Wall Street Journal or something and pat themselves on the back and think they're accomplishing great things, when in truth they've accomplished nothing other than preaching to the choir. You politicians that occasionally peruse this blog, I hope you read this.

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