With the FISA “reform” bill now in the Senate, it’s deja vu all over again.
As it most likely will be with our alledged Democratic Senator, Claire McCaskill.
I’m still not sure what kind of verbage will appeal to her to oppose FISA “reform” (something she’s shown a total unwillingness to do). Here was my latest stab.
Dear Senator McCaskill:
What is the difference between a democracy and a police state? In the former, the governmenet cannot spy on you unless they suspect you are commiting a crime. If the latter, they simply monitor you “preemptively”, THEN decide whether you’ve committed a crime.
The latest atrocious FISA “reform” bill, which I urge you to oppose, is simply another step down that path towards a police state. Your stance on previous FISA bills has shown an unwillingness to stand up to basic democratic (with a small “d”) principles as outlined in the Constitution.
I bet if this were a similar attempt to gut gun ownership, you’d be singing a far different tune.
Please, finally, stand up for the Constitution and oppose the FISA bill (or support a filibuster or whatever).
she has become Talent-Lite. There are a few things now and then that shows (a) she has some spine and (b) she remembers who got her where she is at. Nevertheless, she is NOT seeing a dime from me (or time) while we are in Iraq.
Her votes on high profile issues like this one have been in support of President 24%’s agenda. Sure, on a lot of other stuff, she’s been a pretty good Democrat.
But she campaigned on “standing up” to the Repups and she’s not done that in any effective manner.
As you said, if she wants a prayer of being supported by, yunno, the party faithful, in four years, she’d better start voting like a Democrat. She didn’t campaign as a Blue Dog but she sure as hell votes like one.
not that it will do any good. They ask for your zip code and I live in the city so she’ll figure that I’m a Dem voter no matter what. Now … if I lived in a rural area.
I wonder if we all started calling and giving fake zip codes …