NEWS: Democrats: Worst Party Ever

POLITICS: Democrats: Worst Party Ever

The current Democrats are the weakest, most spineless fucks ever to grace the halls of Congress. After months of attempting destroy the 4th amendment, it seems they have finally succeeded – and their reasoning is more disgusting than the Republicans. Democrats are destroying the Constitution to gain a few votes in swing states. At least the Republicans stand for something, as vile and sickening as it may be.

In case you hadn’t heard, the House passed a FISA bill last week. Headlines could have easily read, “George Bush Wet Dream Turns Out To Be True.” The bill gives immunity to telecom companies who broke the law and expands warrantless wiretapping. That’s exactly why Americans gave Congress back to the Dems in 2006 – so they could help Bush use the Constitution as toilet paper.

Think I’m exaggerating? Here’s what Republicans said about the bill:

Holy fucking shit. “Better deal than they even had hoped to get.” Why not just say,

Even I am shocked at how the Democrats appear to be totally spineless, completely fearful and entirely lacking principles. They embody everything the Founding Fathers were opposed to. A party like the Republicans was expected, which is why the framers created a system that would put a stop to their insane power grab. What was not expected was that the opposing party would go along to gain a few votes and to pad the bank accounts of corporations.

So, what did the Dems give up? Well, the President broke the law – apparently committing these things called “felonies.” Bush spied on our phone calls and emails without warrants because he believes he is above the law. The House voted to protect the President from prosecution, permanently block lawsuits that would have revealed what he did and at the same time, legalized the illegal spying in the past and in the future. House Democrats called it a “compromise.”

This is the kind of compromise where you don’t want to have sex with someone, so you let them fuck you in the ass. The Democratic version of “compromise” always means the Republicans get what they want. In this case, only one Republican voted against the bill. One the other hand, 105 Democrats “compromised.” They were totally bipartisan! Yeah, Washington!

Senator Russ Feingold said it best…

Well, don’t worry about that, because the Dems got their buddy telecom companies a "get out of jail free" card.



Hey, no worries. I’m sure the Founding Fathers would have been totally cool with the President opening and copying every piece of mail they received from overseas. Why would they have a problem with that? When has that kind of power ever been abused?

Here’s how this is going to work from now on: Our courts can no longer determine if the government was actually after a terrorist or innocent Americans - or opposing political parties. (You fucking retards.) Judges will actually be barred from examining the actual reasons for the spying. Judges will only be allowed to dismiss lawsuits based on spying – the Attorney General will have all the power to say whether or not the spying was "designed to prevent or detect a terrorist attack." This would be the same Attorney General who can’t figure out if waterboarding is torture – or whether or not members of the Bush White House are in contempt for refusing to testify in front of Congress. Yeah, that guy. The Dems just gave that guy all the power.

Once the Attorney General utters the secret words, judges cannot look into the issue any further. It’s pure lawlessness – like the Wild West, without those oppressive Sheriffs. Judges don’t get to actually decide whether or not the Attorney General is making a valid claim. Once he says the secret words, it’s over.

And bestest of all, the Dems did it to pick up a few seats. Right now they have a 35 seat majority in the House and they want to build that shit up to 50. So, fuck the Constitution, let’s get some Dems up in that bitch!

Phew! Thank God you made those districts competitive!

This is a fantastically moronic view of where the country is at this time. Dems made massive, nearly unparalleled pick ups in 2006 – because Americans want the Bush White House to be held in check, yet the Democratic answer is to give him everything he wants, so they won’t lose seats in the next election. They are so cowardly and stupid it is shocking. Karl Roves entire election strategy in 2006 was built upon FISA and national security, attempting to brand the Dems as weak on terrorism. And yet, the Democrats cleaned the GOPs clock. Republicans were obliterated. And apparently the Democrats learned nothing. Zip. Zero. Nada.

Democrats believe the way to show how awesome they are, is to trample on the Constitution. Trampling isn’t even the right word. This is obliteration.

And just to add a little icing on the coward cake, they took a page out of the Patriot Act handbook. House members were only given 24 hours to read the bill and decide on whether or not they should shit all over our rights. Just seems like a few years ago Democrats were complaining loudly they were only given 24 hours to read the Patriot Act before voting on it. And now they are doing it to themselves on a bill that also destroys our civil rights. Well done.

Our neo-con morons will say this bill was necessary, because we need to prevent another 9/11 before it occurs. They argue that if the telecoms aren’t given immunity, they won’t want to help us catch terrorists. Everyone seems to forget that the warrantless wiretapping program started BEFORE 9/11. I’m going to write that again, for the idiots. The warrantless wiretapping program started before 9/11. Got it, you fucking dipshit? (Not you, the idiot who believes the Bush bullshit. The coward who is willing to throw out everything this country stands for, so they can feel save in a place that will never be attacked, like Alaska.)

By the sounds of it, Dems have enough votes to overcome a Dodd/Feingold filibuster. Obama is coming in soft on this one. Previously he vowed to do all he could to stop the bill, now he is basically saying we need the bill, although he has said he will try to get the amnesty removed. Either way, if the bill passes and Obama votes for it, I will not vote for him for President. Sorry, can’t support someone who tosses away the 4th Amendment. Hello Jesse Johnson!

In the future, you will turn on the news and hear a court dismissed all the lawsuits against telecoms. You won’t know why. You won’t know what the government said to have the cases tossed. The plaintiff’s lawyers won’t know either. The judge won’t be able to say a word. No one will know. Just Bush and his boys. Ah, sweet democracy – given to you by the Democrats.

Feel free to take a look at this video of George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley (far from a liberal) as he describes what this bill does to our Constitution.

Way to go Democrats. Don’t forget to donate to the Dems this elections cycle. They know you will, because they know you fear the other side more. Too bad there really isn’t much of a difference. Oh, wait, there is. One party is full of complete and total cowards who have no principles. The other stands for what they believe in.

You can still call or email your Senator to put a stop to this bill. If you don't know what to say or write, check this shit out.

Just emailed both Specter & Casey about this . I have no idea what the Dems are waiting for . When will they grow a pair as a group ?

Which Republican voted against the bill? Just curious.

I don't remember where I heard that, but it's a great quote.

Why do people have party loyalty? Why would anyone stay a registered R or D? They both suck major ass. Granted the Dems major problem seems to be appeasing the criminal Republican, but still?

I do not like Lou Dobbs. But I agree with him when he says that we should all be registered independents.

I called Sen. Carl Levin to encourage him to "block any compromise that includes immunity for phone companies that helped Bush break the law."

Please do your part by calling your senators and requesting the same.

Asking a FISA judge to review a wiretap request is not unreasonable.

There is no reason for the Bush Administration to spy on us without just cause as determined by a judge.

We need to know whose rights were violated by the reckless behavior of the Bush Administration.

Encouraging your senators to protect our privacy rights is imperative.

Please call you senators today. Thank you.

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections_with_teasers/active_leg_page.htm#F
This is roll call this should get you the info on who voted for what. Off the top of my noggin I can't remember what republican voted against it but good on that person.

so i'm assuming all emails sent are tapped, collected, and our names are placed on a "list", right?

V for Vendetta seems more like a harbinger than a film at this point

Political reacharounds. Neat.
The whole surveillance thing will be kind of useless when every citizen is on a list.

I wonder where the SCOTUS sits on all this.

How is this defending our freedom from terrorists again?

Good article, FTR. I'd only heard about this shortly, as it didn't make a lot of news spaces down here.

the Dems handling of this issue, as well as the war, has been sickeningly disappointing thus far. it appears that the only real difference between them and the GOP is that when they throw their full support behind Bush's bid to eliminate the other two branches of government, they tell us they feel really bad about it.

Tim Johnson of Illinois' 15th district.

Here is the roll call.


(The question made me curious, as I naturally assumed the Republican no vote was Ron Paul, but he was one of the 13 members who didn't vote on the bill.)

I'm elated to have read that my congresswoman Diana DeGette voted no on this abomination. And I did write her a very nice e-mail. Disturbng to think nearly half of the house Dems voted yes.

I wrote the Democratic party and my reps there and told them that they'd failed me beyond my wildest expectations, and that I was switching to Independent (which I had already done a month ago).

And that link to the senators thing does me no good. Both my senators are Republican.

I have emailed both my senators: Ben Nelson (Fred Flintstone's jelly-spined twin) and Chuck Hagel (attention whore extrordinaire).

Not to be a complete ass or anything, but weren't many of the same faces now expressing total shock and outrage at this story just recently over here all of five minutes ago deriding famous troll Stockula for bringing this up as a negative for Obama?

I mean, look, if I'm wrong, please explain the fine details to me, because the last place I want to be is defending Stockula in any way shape or form, but for god's sake hypocrisy is hypocrisy. Blasting him for pointing it out on the part of a candidate and then ripping into that candidate's party for the same exact thing is sort of a little, hypocritical, yes?

Not entirely. Obama hasn't voted yet, but congress has.

Fair enough, but Stockula headed his article with an attack on Obama and everyone couldn't wait to rip him apart and tell him he was wrong. As I recall very few people made the point that Obama hadn't voted yet. Most of them made the point that his position had changed based on changing facts and political compromise, which is all fine and good. No one can look too closely at how laws get made and expect to walk away feeling good about it. But no one is making those same points in this thread. I love bashing Congress as much as the next guy, but the facts currently seem to be that Obama has decided to support it and that sort of bothers me about him, I can send him an email as a donor to his campaign, just like I can email my representatives to inform them of my feelings regarding their votes, either upcoming or already recorded. None of that changes the fact that we're all sitting around on this thread bashing the Democrats at large, but when someone from the other side uses the same issue against Obama the crowd wants to rally to his defense. The guy's running for president, expecting him to do everything right and please everyone all the time isn't just silly, it's downright dangerous if it leads him to support weak-sister shit like this law.

This is what my congresswoman had to say:

Source

It's too bad that more Democrats didn't step up to the plate like she did.

I was happy to see that my representative voted against it. It makes me happy that I voted her in.
I'll be sending my senator a letter, though I have a feeling he'll still vote for this bill, being a republican and all. Maybe he'll surprise me.

I wrote to both my Senators (one's a Democrat, one's a Republican) and I also wrote to Obama.

Obama votes for this, he's not getting my vote.

I'm surprised nobody has jumped all over FTR for mistyping 'vial' instead of vile... I'm sure there's a terrible joke in there somewhere.....

As far as the content of the post is concerned... I can't agree more. The dems are just useless.