fuck the democrats

They could stop it, but they don't. Fucking assholes. There is no hope.

Glenn Greenwald:

With each day that passes, the radicalism and extremism originally spawned in secret by the Bush presidency becomes less and less his fault and more and more the fault of those who -- having discovered what they have been doing and having been given the power to stop it -- instead acquiesce to it and, worse, enable and endorse it.

John Cole:

At any rate, well done Democrats. If you are wondering why your poll numbers in Congress are so low, it is because the Republican opposition hates you, and the people who voted for you hate you more. Why? Because of stuff like this.

Grow a spine, you cowards.

Thoreau:

You mean to tell me that Harry Reid couldn’t get 8 more Democrats 40 of his 49 Democrats (plus Bernie Sanders) (edit) to say no to a President whose approval rating is currently a complex number with a negative real part and a large imaginary part? WHAT THE FUCK DID WE ELECT YOU SONS OF BITCHES FOR??!?!?!?!?!?

A.L.:

What's important to understand is that this bill would allow much broader surveillance than what the Bush administration has so far acknowledged doing. Until the administration actually discloses what activities it has engaged in and promises to abide by FISA, I just don't see how any self-respecting member of Congress could vote to give the administration additional powers. I understand that FISA is not a perfect law and there are ways it could be improved and further-modernized, but until you actually know what the administration has been doing over the last six years and the extent to which it is willing to comply with even an amended FISA, you're just legislating in the dark. It's craven and reckless.

The six months sunset provision doesn't give me much reassurance either. If Congress is too craven to withstand administration pressure in this scenario, does anyone believe they'll actually have the stones to take existing powers away when they come up for renewal? Not likely.

Who is IOZ?:

The senate just voted overwhelmingly to further expand the Executive Surveillance State, because, after all, this Executive has proven to be ethically rigorous and practically restrained in its use of the vast powers already conferred on it by the Congress

The government of the United States is just a criminal cartel. Democrats are just as much a part of it.