Shuler, Etheridge, McIntyre vote with GOP to help Bush spy on us
Heath Shuler, Bob Etheridge and Mike McIntyre fumble again - handing off our civil rights - 41 Dems Vote with Republicans To Pass Bush Domestic Spying Plan...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The Democratic-led Congress yielded to President Bush on Saturday and approved legislation to temporarily expand government's power to conduct electronic surveillance without a court order in tracking foreign suspects.
Civil liberties groups charged the measure would create a broad net that would sweep up law-abiding U.S. citizens
B-b-but
we have to take a way your freedoms to preserve them! You must be some kind of commie or something.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
This is just bs
Anyone -- Democrat or Republican -- who voted for it -- should be ashamed of themselves, and should be primaried.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
Yes
Shuler's got some explaining to do. And quick.
ScruHoo!
You left out McIntyre
In the title of the blog, but he also voted for this.
It doesn't do the Democratic Party a damned bit of good to have a majority in the House or the Senate if this is the result. If we expect a big turnout at the polls next year maybe it's time we call a duck a duck.
thanks, I am editing to add - guess we need a super majority
Don't want to let McIntyre off the hook.
McIntyre has GOP opposition
McIntyre well face a stronger GOP challenge next election. Let's see if all his GOP friends support him.
Say it ain't so, Bobby
2005 Bankruptcy act - for
SCHIP - against
and now this?
Courage and integrity are difficult to maintain while in power..
These days, one is expecting a lot from any US Senator or Congressman and justifiably. Our representatives should be expected to execute their duties as true representatives of courage and fidality to their constituants. I do believe this to be true and not an idealogical summation.
I also believe the current situation of Democrats taking the political low road to be a real shame and a desaster for Democracy.
The Congressional club and Senatorial Club relationships go beyond party politics. In this enviorment, independent thinkers are shunned and rebels are ostracized. If you want to get along.....then you must go along. It would seem some of our Democratic representatives understand this reality jst a bit too good.
This Vote to expand the Presidents power to spy on us all represents a sad day for democracy and a ringing validation of Business as usual in Congress.....
Marshall Adame
did you know that Walter Jones (R) voted AGAINST domestic spying
If Dems want to run candidates for congress in 2008, just remember, Walter Jones (R-NC ) has voted to get us OUT of the war, he voted AGAINST wiretapping, he has publicly stated on CSPAN his opposition to the war, that we were LIED to.
Also, from Virginia, I was disappointed to hear that Jim Webb voted for giving the Executive branch more power.
Makes you wonder how much black mail material Gonzo obtained with the previously illegal wire tapping? Watergate legal now?
Of course Mr. Jones, Jr. voted against it
It's politically beneficial for him to do so...Otherwise, he'd be lock-stepped with Mr. Bush as he was until the political winds shifted against the White House.
Walter B. Jones, Jr is nothing but an opportunist. Look at his record: Shifted political parties when it suited him, touts his religion when it suits him, supported, and then withdrew that support, when it suited him and his political interest.
Jones, Jr. is nothing but an actor. He's doing what he can to maintain his seat, even though he's an the most impotent member of the House.
Thomas S. Brock
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And not a good one, at that.
Freedom Fries. How much more melodramatic can you get?
What a douchebag.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi
why not say what you really think
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It's an affliction.
I just can't seem to get out my true feelings. But I'm working on it.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. --Gandhi