Here something else to chew on while we wait for the Senate on the FISA bill. Again thinking about the principled reason people objected to "illegal wiretaps", imbedded in the housing bailout legislation is a national fingerprint registry. People involved in the mortgage industry and some involved in the real estate industry will have to give their finger prints just for the privilege of doing their business and no evidnece they have broken any laws.
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Buried in the text of the revised legislation, approved by the Senate Banking Committee by a 19-2 vote this week, is a plan to create a new national fingerprint registry. It covers just about everyone involved in the mortgage business, including lenders, "loan originators," and some real estate agents.
What's a little odd is the lack of public discussion about this new fingerprint database. No mention of it appears in the official summary of the revised Senate bill. No fingerprint database requirement is in the House version of the legislation approved earlier this month. No copy of the revised Senate legislation is posted on the Library of Congress' Thomas Web site, which would be the usual procedure.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9951420-38.html
I understand examining phone records of people communicating with known terrorist, but here I think government is taking a step too far. Should we expect more of the same from Washington with a Democrat in the WH and Democrats in control of Congress?
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Originally Posted by host
"Lumping me in" with ace, (presumably to make my well documented opinions seem indistinguishable from ace's rhetorical and predictably partisan ones...). in the intro of your last post, was no accident, was it? You can put lipstick on this, all you want, dc_dux, but wishing ain't gonna make it so......
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Host, try and separate two points I continually make. One, I do generally support the Bush administration. I voted for him twice, I even worked on his campaign. My support of Bush is primarily based on national defense issues. We disagree on some domestic issues.
The other point I often make is that the Democrats are basically full of it.
I know we will never agree on national defense issues or domestic policy issues.