Posted on 12/19/2007 5:04:53 AM PST by IrishMike
Before leaving town, Senate Democrats, led by Majority Leader Harry Reid, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Sens. Chris Dodd and Russ Feingold, left a lump of coal (and a stink bomb) in the stockings of the American people when it comes to prevention against terrorist attack. After they failed on Monday failed to block Republican efforts to retroactively bar lawsuits against telephone companies that helped the government monitor suspected jihadist communications after September 11, Mr. Reid pulled from the floor legislation to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the primary law governing the monitoring of electronic communications. Unless Congress acts, on Feb. 1 U.S. intelligence agencies will lose the ability to monitor at least some overseas terrorist telecommunications without first obtaining court approval.
Some special-interest groups would be very happy to see FISA expire. With the support of groups like People For the American Way, the ACLU and the blog DailyKos, Messrs. Feingold and Dodd have been working feverishly to deny the telephone companies protection from lawsuits over their participation in terrorist surveillance efforts. Mr. Dodd threatened to filibuster any effort to bar the lawsuits from going from going forward. Mr. Reid had tried to broker a compromise between the decent FISA bill, negotiated by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, West Virginia Democrat, and Sen. Kit Bond, Missouri Republican, which contains telecom immunity; and a Senate Judiciary Committee bill, pushed by Mr. Leahy (with an assist from Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and a who's who of the political left) that would deny retroactive immunity. Last month, the House passed a measure that fails to provide such immunity.
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Harry Reid IS a stink bomb!
Harry Reid IS a stink bomb!
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Must be why he squints his eyes,
trying to see through the haze.
Another mystery solved by a Freeper!
Generally speaking, ex post facto laws are seen as a violation of the rule of law as it applies in a free and democratic society...
"The sentiment that ex post facto laws are against natural right is so strong in the United States, that few, if any, of the State constitutions have failed to proscribe them. The federal constitution indeed interdicts them in criminal cases only; but they are equally unjust in civil as in criminal cases, and the omission of a caution which would have been right, does not justify the doing what is wrong. Nor ought it to be presumed that the legislature meant to use a phrase in an unjustifiable sense, if by rules of construction it can be ever strained to what is just." (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13th, 1813)
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The Founders would be astonished at the modern Democrat Party.
The Founders would be astonished at the modern Democrat Party.
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They are not alone, judging by approval numbers for Congress.
or the hate
Especially terrorists. Now they can plan more attacks.
Especially terrorists. Now they can plan more attacks.
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And that would give the drive by MSM and the dRATs ammo against W and the GOP - ‘ for the childrens safety ‘
senator reid et al....
stinkers in action.
Often times a stong oder will accompany a demonic presence.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823537/posts
Hunter calls for Reid to step down over ‘war is lost’ remarks
“the founding fathers would be astonished by the modern Democratic party”
I think they would be arrested, tried for treason and hung until death!
Harry Reid is the best thing we have to keep the ‘08 election within grasp. Let him keep making a jackass out of himself and his party.
Harry Reid is the best thing we have to keep the 08 election within grasp. Let him keep making a jackass out of himself and his party.
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Funny thing you said that.
Rush said yesterday he would donate whatever the maximun allowed is for Reids re election.
He’s up 2010
Dana Perino needs to tell the PUBLIC, OVER and OVER, what kind of things Harry Reid does to the American People!!
How a MANLY state like Nevada can elect such a Girlie-man like Reid is beyond me.
OMG! She looks like a freakin alien in that picture. Come on, those eyes are photoshopped.
The eyes are empty, skin unnatural, grim facial features, spoken words unGodly, rarely seen in sunlight ...
If MY people, which are called by MY name shall humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; Then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
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