Reyes Hints House Dems Ready to Hand Telecoms Immunity

[Whoo69]

Only 10 months left til Bush's Administration is finally gone. Of course, the contenders to replace him aren't all that appealing. You've got "bomb iran" and "maybe 100" mccain on one side, and then there's angry Hilary and hopeless Obama on the other. I'm voting for Gravel rather than waste my vote on any of these 3 pathetic candidates. Gravel stands for real change! He's not some party hack like Obama and Hilary.

[jaekent]

It doesn't matter which party creates and which party passes this bullshit. Either way the whole of the government is responsible. These fucks are going to spy on their own people and then eventually RFID tag everyone of us.

[hardyboyah]

someone needs to tell this douche that his job isn't to take orders from the president.

[mfyyre]

I just can't wait to have my privacy raped even more!! They don't have an excuse, why not wave "State Secret Priv" at all of the lawsuits instead of granting the telcomm immunity.

Thanks Whitehouse, congress, and every dumb American who voted for this nightmare -- its coming true!

Fuck you!

[rmsolom]

Tell you what?! Let us listen to Mr. Bush's phone conversations and we can call it a deal!

[CitizenWorm]

The telecoms wouldn't have to worry about being sued if the government didn't ask them to do illegal things.

Simple. There's your immunity. Do break the fucking law.

[flyingbird0214]

Is this the big change the Democrats are promising to bring? Obviously the politics of fear still work with Democrats.

[agitcam]

Corporate Democrats supporting the corruption of the White House and their masters Corporate Amerika. We either get rid of these corporate hack Dems or our Republic is over.

[dafttool]

Of course the Dems are going to cave in to White House pressure. It's what they've been doing for the last 7 years. They're spineless bastards. They've been enabling Bush's extremism like the co-dependent wife of a drunkard.

[ho2cultcha]

fucking idiot! democrats? republicans? same ilk! if they've broken the law, the courts will sort out what was and was not okay to do for national security. if they did it under the auspices of the presidents office, then the president needs to be held accountable in a court of law. the companies don't need retroactive immunity. why do we have the laws at all, if they're going to get retroactive immunity w/out a court hearing even?

[radiofriendly]

You democrats just watch - they are going to do this---start calling!

[brawnymike]

With friends like these Dems ...

[MojoJuana]

republicans and democrats, who do you guys work for? us, the people or private corporations? well, evidently, it seems that you guys really work for them instead of us. government in cahoots with corporations is fascism! and it's unconstitutional!

[PreetSG]

Wrong move Dems, wrong move...

[franknyt]

OH, Its not IF we bend-over and take it up the ass, its how and for how long we bend over and take it in the ass.

That clears it up, thanks representative of the people. Everybody thank congress and the senate, they just clarified how we should take in the ass and for how long... all together now....THANK YOUUUUUUU!!!! :{

[MooseOfReason]

Please filibuster this.

[burrowowl]

Too late. The House of Representatives has no filibuster mechanism and the Senate already passed this over Dodd's attempt to block it. 50% +1 of the representatives have to stand up against this or the telcos get immunity.

[Antichrys]

unbelievable... my senator (Christopher Dodd - CT) has fought tooth and nail against this very thing, personally and successfully filibustering Bush's version of the FISA bill at one point during this whole fight.

Don't let him down Congressman.

[uru86]

Spineless Democrats, no one defends the American people's rights. America is not a "great democracy" anymore, its one of the most captured states in the world.

[snarkwaupaca]

So neither party respect the constitution? Sad. It was once said that voting for both parties was like selecting various shades of grey meat.

[hypnofan35]

i am afraid that we need protection from our own leaders. Leadership does not like checks and balances. Leadership likes overwhelming force. Leadership does not care what is real. Leadership will tell you if you are a criminal or not. Leadership does not like defiance. Leadership does not like democracy. Leadership likes abosolute credibility. Leadership wants to know what you are saying and to whom. Leadership likes freedom for leadership. Otherwise known as forceful crackdown tactics.