will....do you find any conflict in what you and I and occam's razor concluded about this administation? The propose changes to the FISA laws, passed in the senate and waiting for a vote in the house, will either "sunset" in six months, or be delayed for a conference committee to iron out, at some future date, if the house bill is changed in the version that is passed.....
....Just as in september, 2001, and in the anthrax "attacks" that immediately followed....who benefited? Who would benefit if we were to "get hit" again, anytime between now and the November, 2008 elections.
I don't think that the passage of the Bush requested will make us "safer", but I strongly suspect that preventing passage would persuade them to do something that they really, really, don't want to have to do..... but.....the senate and house dems asked for it, sooooo...... we get hit, AGAIN.....
Quote:
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/3e13e...9-2f5c08f26035
Saturday, August 04, 2007
Speaker Pelosi Is In The Hot Seat Over National Security
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 2:00 AM
Posted by Generalissimo
.....While a third of the Senate Democrats recognized the magnitude of the political fallout they’d face if a terrorist act was committed on U.S. soil, especially an event that could have been detected or prevented were it not for partisan games, Pelosi and the Democrats in the House were busy Thursday night and Friday playing Houdini with votes, magically changing tallies, then making votes disappear completely from the record when challenged. In fact, there was a Florida 2000 flashback earlier Friday when the voting machines in the House suddenly stopped working. But Nancy Pelosi has much more now than dimpled chads to worry about in the House.
Speaker Pelosi is in a very untenable position. She now bears entirely the weight of improving the national security of the United States. She will try to spin it differently, but every moment she waits, trying to find a political way out of the predicament she finds herself in, she is vulnerable to being held responsible if something really bad happens here. If the McConnell-Bond bill were to pass the House, it would be signed immediately by the President, and become law that second. There is no implementation delay. As soon as the ink is dry, Admiral Mike McConnell can start changing procedures he deems vital for the protection of the country at once.
So what are Pelosi’s options? She could bring up the bill as is, with no amendments, and call for a vote. Considering the number of Democrats in the Senate who helped it pass, it's almost certain to pass the House. But if Pelosi plays games with this, or if one comma is changed in the House version, the bill would have to go to a conference committee, which can’t now happen anytime soon because the Senate has recessed. They’ve done their job. Pelosi has to pass the bill as is. We hope she sees this and does what’s better for the country than satisfying her ACLU base.
Here’s her conundrum, however. If Pelosi does push this bill through, which she almost certainly has to, she will send her members home after the vote for their August recess to face a base that will be just as angry, just as ramped up as the Republican base by and large was during the recent immigration debate. Will she have the courage to stand up to her kook fringe and do what’s right? Will she be able to regain control of the reins of the House of Representatives after she so badly mismanaged it this week? Or is she so beholden to powerful lobbies within the Democratic base that she will turn her back on the national security of the country to placate the left wing fringe? We’ll stay tuned and report.....
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.....they outed Plame, they launched an illegal war, predicate on lies....and we don't want to think about what they would do if the FISA law changes don't pass. I'm not trying to present an apology for the despicable conduct of democrats....I'm trying to be consistent in my thinking, and asking you to consider that you ought to be, too....