Senate May Vote On NSA Reform As Soon As Next Week 127
apexcp writes Senate Majority Leader (for now) Harry Reid announced he will be taking the USA FREEDOM Act to a floor vote in the Senate as early as next week. While the bill, if passed, would be the first significant legislative reform of the NSA since 9/11, many of the act's initial supporters have since disavowed it, claiming that changes to its language mean it won't do enough to curb the abuses of the American surveillance state
Re:Well, well we want to get some work done now... (Score:0, Interesting)
The Democrat-controlled senate hasn't scheduled any votes for some time now, and even other Democrats have been complaining that senate Dems aren't doing anything, for fear of votes coming back to haunt them in the elections. If it's good policy, why do you have to fear your how your electorate will respond at the polls?
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/200228-house-dems-to-senate-dems-pass-our-bills
Now all of a sudden it's time to get something done? That's what happens when you play politics with public policy. Now we know you were too busy looking out for your own hide and not serving the public. And check out Landrieu all of a sudden being a "driving force" in passing Keystone pipeline in the face of a tight runoff election. This would be hilarious if it wasn't such a sad reflection of the state of the US.
To be fair, by definition everyone "play[s] politics with public policy".
But yeah, Democrats have been spectacularly mendacious over the past 8 years or so. Hell, Howard Dean has this to say about Obamacare architect John Gruber's claims that Obamacare is deliberately non-transparent in order to fool the "stupid American people":
Howard Dean: Obamacare Created by 'Elitists Who Don't Fundamentally Understand the American People' [youtube.com]
“The problem is not that he said it–the problem is that he thinks it,” Dean said. “The core problem under the damn law is it was put together by a bunch of elitists who don’t fundamentally understand the American people. That’s what the problem is.”
Howard Dean said that. Not Rush Limbaugh -