With all of this cloture talk going around and before you think the Democrats “got rolled” on the FISA debacle, here are some points for consideration:
1. Julian Sanchez at American Prospect: Democrats Capitulate On FISA
… But it may not be simple naiveté: The watchdog group MAPLight notes that House Democrats who changed their votes to support the new FISA bill received almost twice as much money from the telecom industry over the past three years as those who remained opposed. Either way, though, it sure looks like they’re hoping you will get rolled.
2. Back to the criminal cloture thing, major props to Chris Dodd and the honorable gentleman from Wisconsin who tried their best to filibuster the hell out of this bill.
3. Where was Golden Boy Obama to stand as one of the filibustering forty?
(If you think I’m going to quit railing against the exectuive branch the moment Obama is elected president, you’re in for a world of shock. This blog is only the extension of the 1990s-honored tradition of calling out Bush the First and Clinton via email and muttering at the television. Politicians were, are and always will be in it for themselves.)
The question is, “Will you restart your counter?”
You mean in a new era of getting shafted by government?