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February 12, 2008

Retroactive Democracy

by AltHippo @ 1:10 pm. Filed under NSA Spying, democrats

This is just painful enough, that I’m glad there’s a DC primary today to distract me: (TPM)

Let there be no doubt: a majority of senators, and a large number of Democrats, think the telecoms should not suffer the hazard of accountability for cooperating with the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) took to the floor last night to give a speech asking, “This is our defining question, the question that confronts every generation: The rule of law, or the rule of men?” The resounding answer: the rule of men.

I tend to believe that if you gave Pelosi and Reid truth serum and asked them what they really thought of the voters they’d tell you either a.) that we’re misbehaved children that need to be told what to do by Mommy and Daddy, or b.) they don’t really care what the voters think. We’re the society of the high-minded, superior creations, they’d tell you from the vantage point of pentathol, and we look after each other.

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