Comments on: Telecom Immunity Showdown

by: biggerbox

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:27:47 +0000

Thank goodness, they aren’t all Swami’s “spineless ass kissin’ cretins.” Dodd’s determination, backed by Kennedy and Feingold, convinced Reid he couldn’t get away with passing this bill before recess. The fight will resume in January, but it’s some kind of victory today.

by: Bonnie

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:48:28 +0000

Maybe the Dems are suffering from Stockholm Syndrone.

by: Doug Hughes

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:54:37 +0000

Swami - A politician is to a statesman what a lizzard is to a dinasaur. We got too many lizzards in congress - and the campaign contributions will be interesting.

Just a thought - can the money that the telecoms have been paid for selling out their customers be obtained under freedom of information? That - coupled witht he payoff from the telecoms to the lizzards from congress for the amnesty might make for interesting advertising in a congressional primary.

“If the telecoms were not party to illigal spying, why did they pay your Senator/Congressment for a get-out-of-jail-free clause in the FISA bill of 2007?”

by: Swami

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:23:39 +0000

They’ll get their immunity..after all, accountability with this Congress is just a quaint concept lingering from the past. Laws are meant to be broken, right?
I guess I’m sounding a little like Diogenes the Cynic, but my faith in the members of Congress to stand with decency and honor do the right thing is shattered. They’re a bunch of spineless ass kissin’ cretins.

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Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:17:47 +0000

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by: joanr16

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:10:22 +0000

grannyeagle, I suspect some Dems are dancing with them what brung ‘em. Just a guess.

by: grannyeagle

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:18:28 +0000

I have sent my message to my senators.
My telephone company, Qwest, actually refused to cooperate with the government’s request because they knew it was illegal. If they knew, the others knew.
I just can’t understand what the Democrats are thinking to allow immunity. Maybe it’s all about the election or not wanting to piss off somebody or other. But who? Bush? Constituents? Corporations? I want to throw them all out. They are not working for me.

by: James

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:42:11 +0000

Conceiving of greenhouse gases as a Public Health issue, or a public emergency, or a pandemic, and suggesting appropriate government-mandated measures is a example of “Liberal Fascism”? Typhoid Mary is likely laughing in her grave at that comment.

Mr Steyn must never have heard of the idea of “market failure”.

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