Bush wants to pass law that says he's not breaking the law (Wiretapping)

[Subdivisions]

Another example of how shrub wants to rewrite the laws he's broken so that he hasn't really broken them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090700837.html

President Bush urged Congress today to give him "additional authority" to carry out a controversial warrantless eavesdropping program directed against international terrorists and to approve "broader reforms" in the 1978 law that regulates domestic surveillance of foreign agents' communications.

<snip>

Despite Bush's call for congressional action to strengthen the legal underpinnings of the eavesdropping program, the Senate Judiciary Committee today delayed action on such a bill after a Democratic senator, Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin, spoke against it at length and offered four amendments.

<snip>

In the Senate, however, Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) called off a vote on a bill he had negotiated with the administration. Among other provisions, the bill would submit the NSA surveillance program to the FISA court for a one-time constitutional review and would lengthen the duration of emergency surveillance before obtaining a FISA warrant from three days to seven days.

Specter blamed what he called election-year "obstructionism" for the delay in sending his bill to the Senate floor.

"We have seen the incipient stage of filibuster by amendment," he said as he called off the committee vote on the measure, the Associated Press reported.

In opposing the bill on grounds it would give the White House too much power to carry out warrantless eavesdropping, Feingold told the panel, "The president has basically said: "I'll agree to let a court decide if I'm breaking the law if you pass a law first that says I'm not breaking the law." Feingold added, "That won't help reestablish a healthy respect for separation of powers. It will only make matters worse."

Go Russ!

[Lefty48197]

1. Why doesn't he just pardon himself?

Who needs a Congress anyways?

[texpatriot2004]

4. This Cover-up-Congress FAILS to provide oversight, they are

as guilty as he is.

[Lefty48197]

8. That might be a good campaign theme: Failure to oversee Bush

Sounds like High Treason to me.

[texpatriot2004]

9. Sounds like High Treason to me too. Yes, the GOP Culture of

Corruption and the Cover-up-Congress complicit in the crimes of the * Administration IMHO

[BuyingThyme]

2. For those of you who still don't get it,

this is what Specter was doing from the start. He's never had anything else in mind. Never.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5663753
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5648330

[Nite Owl]

7. You can't trust anyone with

an R after their name. There are no moderates they would have left the party in shame by now if they weren't a part of the whole mess. There may have been a time for bipartisanship but it isn't now and won't be until they rid themselves of their leadership or dissolve the republican party.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Why doesn't the little pissant just pass an executive order that

declares him, 'pResident for life"? I am sure a "signing order" will take care of it. :argh:

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. Oh What the Fuck?!

Why not just declare himself Intergalactic Emperor and be done with it already, the Son of a Bitch?

[Kutjara]

6. Shrub gets more like Silvio Berlusconi every day.

Wriggling around, trying to get the legislature to pass laws legalizing his crimes, grasping new privileges and immunities wherever he can, pretending his crimes are legal because of his position. Just another puffed-up powermonger, looking for ever purer fixes.