Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Telethon For Democrats Without Balls, FISA Edition

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 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.
I want my party back.

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.

It's like throwing away an impeachment investigation, even as just a technique to extract documents, because it trumps executive privilege.

NOT ON THE TABLE! NOT ON THE TABLE!
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