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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 07:36 AM
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With Democrats Like These ...
<snip> The task before Congress was to review and improve an update to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, that was pushed through the Capitol just before the summer break. That bill endorsed warrantless wiretapping and gutted other aspects of the 1978 law.

House Democrats drafted a measure that, while imperfect, was an improvement to the one passed this summer. But before the House could vote, Republicans tied up the measure in bureaucratic knots and Democratic leaders pulled it. Senate Democrats did even worse, accepting a Potemkin compromise that endorsed far too much of the bad summer law.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/opinion/20sat1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 08:20 AM
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1. mail them soda straws.. as a symbol to get a spine.. make them make the Thugs actually filibuster
and show the people how much the Thugs hate the poor children, many children of our TROOPS, and what they are doing to over throw our government,, we might get the 67 senators we need in the next election.. !!!!!!!!
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 08:22 AM
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2. till the next election we have no representation in the congress
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DeeDeeNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 08:42 AM
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3. I don't get it
Why would something like requiring warrants make Democrats look soft on terrorism? What is wrong with them????

:banghead:
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-20-07 08:44 AM
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4. taxation without representation.....as a democrat, that is how i feel.
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