Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill
Associated Press
Bowing to President Bush's demands, the Senate sent the White House a bill Wednesday overhauling bitterly disputed rules on secret government eavesdropping and shielding telecommunications companies from lawsuits complaining they helped the U.S. spy on Americans.
The relatively one-sided vote, 69-28, came only after a lengthy and heated debate that pitted privacy and civil liberties concerns against the desire to prevent terrorist attacks. It ended almost a year of wrangling over surveillance rules and the president's warrantless wiretapping program that was initiated after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Just under a third of the Senate, including Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, supported an amendment that would have stripped immunity from the bill. They were defeated on a 66-32 vote. Republican rival John McCain did not attend the vote.
Obama ended up voting for the final bill, as did Specter. Feingold voted no.
We have now moved from a de facto police state, to a de jure police state.
Obama, now that he has the nomination, felt it safe to betray us in order to show his loyalty to corporate America and to pander to the imaginary Bush supporters who he thinks will vote for him.
Other Democratic traitors who chose to nullify the 4th Amendment:
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
The Republic is no more.
Comments
Get your Pot facts straight for Huh and Men in Black?
Get your facts straight Max!* Huh
And you seem to be reading a lot into what you read that just isn't there. You seem to be seeing conspiracies everywhere man.*Huh
"Listen Huh! You need to see the new X-Man files movie in order to get your conspiracy stories together. Or either join my local chapter of the Julius Ceasar Conspiracy Club and get educated on this conspiracy stuff. I can get you in the club with a discount since I was one of the founding members."
For the record slavery didn't end as you said in 1850. Go back and reread what I posted. Foreign slave trading in Brazil ended in 1850 and from that point on there was a gradual emancipation of slaves that concluded in 1888.*Huh
" What record? Nobody is under oath here! That being the case and using your urban new age Al Gore myth Global cooling math. The American Revolution free the slaves, but it took another 70 years to really get it in writing."
I think you are letting your emotions get ahead of your reasoning and comprehension there.*Huh
" I had no idea that emotions could be seen on the Tubes without a cell phone" And stop quoting that silly Libertarian mazine " Reason" for your anti-conspriacy source. Those fools still think the Titanic was a great product of the free-market."
Most importantly Willie Nelson is not and has never been a bluegrass artist. Where you got that idea from I have no idea.*Huh
"You better believe it is important to know what kind of Pot Willie smokes. Anybody that has been on his tour bus knows that bluegrass pot is the best in the industry and do not question his music selections or his pot supply"
So Mote it be in Brazil and the New World Order of Pot!
Okay
I didn't know you were just shootin' the shit. I thought you were serious or something. I'm relieved.
I'm a moderate Democrat.
Mr. Huh
Max is the beat poet of BlueNC.
If you don't get him, you're just not hip.
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recently transplanted from Indianapolis, IN to Durham, NC
I wouldn't recommend drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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Jack K
Hey I read On the Road when I was in college, but then that was 30 years ago and never actually read any Allen G., come to think of it I don't think I've ever been hip. :>)
I'm a moderate Democrat.
Howl, Huh, HOWL
Read Ginsberg's HOWL, Huh.
Okay my Goat riding butt?
Okay
I didn't know you were just shootin' the shit. I thought you were serious or something. I'm relieved.*Huh
I am serious as my last Heart Attack! Now get off you shiftless lazy ass and go shoot some Redcoats with your rusted musket. Whew! For a second I thought you hadn't relieved yourself in years about the shit comment.
May the Great Architect be with Jesse in Hades!
(snaps fingers)(snaps fingers)(snaps fingers) ... nt
Person County Democrats
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