Posted on 09/21/2008 4:10:35 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Dems say they won’t get fooled again By: Glenn Thrush September 21, 2008 06:51 PM EST
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) says he’s seen this movie before: The Bush administration, citing an unprecedented national threat, puts the hammer on Congress to ram through gargantuan legislation with a minimum of review — and the murkiest of repercussions.
“We will do something this week — but if we learned anything from right after 9/11, it’s that the biggest mistake is to pass anything they ask for just because it’s an emergency,” Leahy says.
The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman knows of what he speaks. He sponsored the original Patriot Act, only to feel betrayed later when the Bush administration used it to justify domestic wiretapping.
Historically, breathtaking national crises have spurred Congress to act swiftly, sweepingly and in bipartisan lockstep, with ornery legislators casting aside years of bickering to produce consensus at breakneck speed.
But the current generation of Democratic congressional leaders feels burned — and not a little humiliated — by the Bush administration’s use of the 2001 attacks to justify both the speedy enactment of the controversial and complex USA Patriot Act and congressional authorization of the resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq.
“They can’t get away with what they did in 2001,” Leahy said. “This will be ‘trust but verify.’ The biggest mistake they can make is holding a press conference while we’re negotiating to say there’s going to be a worldwide depression if Congress doesn’t do exactly what we want them to.”
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The Democrats first step to giving our country away to terrorists. Ironic thing though, they’ll be the first to fall.
You mean the Dems will make political points?? Who would have thought? /s
The same old jackass have begun their braying again!
Old Leaky Leahy (America’s own Socialist) at it again, eh?
This should be interesting.
Yes, we’ve seen this before. A program created by Democrats, lauded by Democrats, protected by Democrats, staffed by Democrats, and run into the ground by Democrats blows up and now the US taxpayer has to pick up the tab.
Fannie and Freddie were the root cause of this problem, Patty.
But the current generation of Democratic congressional leaders feels burnedYeah, since they've only been there since the early 70's they aren't all that experienced just yet.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHA!!!!!
They will pass it, they can’t say no to socialism and the continued killing of America!!!
Will they help save the nation or pander for votes?
...........never mind.......
For once I think the old goat is on the right side of an issue - have you read the proposed bill (we’ve been calling it the “No Banker Left Behind Act”)?
It’s frightening in its vagueness and unlimitedness.
I think that this is one bill that needs not to be rushed through - the repercussions are too great.
LQ
I didn’t say it was good or bad - I said Leahy is about the last person in government to be complaining about anything...
I’ve written to my three reps and asked them to not vote for this bill. For whatever good that will do. I fear this is a fait accompli.
Good! Block it! Kill it! Drive a stake through its socialist heart so it never rises again! Then get the hell out of the way, you worthless old bag of wind.
If Republicans are smart, they'll agree with the dems and give me a boost of enthusiasm this election.
Stand back and let the dems throw spitballs at each other.
By "our side", I mean those of us who have concluded that, even at the risk of financial collapse, Paulson's "Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)" must be opposed, because it puts too much power and money, with no oversight but with complete legal immunity, in the hands of the very bankers who played such a substantial role in creating this crisis, for their clear benefit, at enormous expense to this nation.
I elaborated my opposition to TARP more in an earlier post, The Mother Of All Frauds(Digesting the Bailout Bill) - Post #23
If the 'Rats do manage to sink TARP, and if there is a major financial panic in the next month, then they would have a hard time (though I'm sure the media will come to their rescue) avoiding the blame for that panic.
I'm still long popcorn futures.
I know how you feel. All they care about is getting reelected so they can rape, pillage and plunder us all repeatedly.
This book exposes the precise modus operandi that's being used here, as well as when most social-engineering sort of legislation is proposed.
But I think their heads would explode if they were exposed to its pages.
None of these pygmies in either party cares about freedom. No one will stop anything. They won't even read it.
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