{"id":197600,"date":"2008-01-23T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/telethon-for-democrats-without-balls-fisa-edition\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T22:31:00","slug":"telethon-for-democrats-without-balls-fisa-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/23\/telethon-for-democrats-without-balls-fisa-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Telethon For Democrats Without Balls, FISA Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really. I’m serious.<\/p>\n

Here is Harry Reid, getting ready to completely capitulate on civil rights protection and telco immunity in the FISA update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I should note that once again, Chris Dodd is excluded from my approbiation, as he is still threatening a filibuster on telco immunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Glenn Greenwald nails it<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Here we have a perfect expression of the most self-destructive Democratic disease which they seem unable to cure. More than anything, they fear looking ‘weak.’ To avoid this, they ‘cave’ and surrender and capitulate and stand for nothing. As a result, they are, as here, endlessly described in the media as ‘caving’ and surrendering. As a result, they look (and are) weak. It’s a self-destructive cycle that has no end.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I want my party back.<\/p>\n

How about we try voodoo to raise Harry S Truman and Lyndon Baines Johnson from the grave, and send them to Congress to bitch slap Reid and Pelosi.<\/p>\n

It’s like throwing away an impeachment investigation, even as just a technique to extract documents, because it trumps executive privilege.<\/p>\n

NOT ON THE TABLE! NOT ON THE TABLE!<\/p>\n

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Really. I’m serious. Here is Harry Reid, getting ready to completely capitulate on civil rights protection and telco immunity in the FISA update. I should note that once again, Chris Dodd is excluded from my approbiation, as he is still threatening a filibuster on telco immunity. Glenn Greenwald nails it: Here we have a perfect …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1067,998,972,1020,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-communications","category-congress","category-justice","category-legislation","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}