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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (61706)	8/6/2007 7:23:44 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 90947

Pelosi repudiated Don Surber blog I have no idea if the upgrade of the FISA law is good or bad. I suspect good, since Congress gave the new law only 6 months to prove itself or die. But the bill does one thing: Its passage rebukes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Plurality Leader Harry Reid. In the House, 41 Democrats abandoned their speaker to pass the FISA upgrade. Only 2 Republicans crossed over in a 227-183 humiliation of the speaker. AP has the story. The House rollcall. The bill — introduced by Reid’s counterpart, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, passed 60-28 in the Senate as 43 Republicans, 16 Democrats and Joe Lieberman voted for the bill. It is pretty sad leadership that loses one-third (16 of 49) of its following in the Senate and one-fifth of its following in the more partisan House. ‘Rats to Sinking Ship leadership: See ya! This drubbing reflects polling that shows as few as 14% of Americans approve of the job that Congress is doing overall — and only 3% approve of how Congress is handling Iraq. Those same polls show Bush scoring 34% overall and 24% on Iraq. McConnell and the White House struck at just the right moment and offered just the right caveat (sunseting the bill) to get it passed. House Republican Leader John Boehner worked to peel off 41 Blue Dog Democrats. It is called “legislating” and it is what Congress is supposed to do. Hearings and subpoenas are the tricks of the blowhard. Great legislative leaders — Lyndon Johnson, Everett Dirksen and yes, Robert C. Byrd — knew how to work both sides of the aisle to get what they wanted. They could compromise on the details, not on their principles. Pelosi and Reid are rookies who are making the same mistakes Dennis Hastert and Dr. Bill Frist made. So far the accomplishments of the 110th Congress are an amendement to a budget that sneaked a minimum-wage hike into the law — the Pelosi-Reid way. And then there is the First Major Law to pass the House and the Senate — that’s the McConnell-Boehner way. They introduced it on Wednesday. It was signed into law on Saturday. 72 hours. That’s all it took. And Nancy said she was going to pass all these laws in her first 100 hours. Yea, right. Power hates a vacuum and the way Pelosi and Reid suck, someone had to step up to the plate and pass a bill to let our troops listen in on the bad guys overseas. I ain’t a lawyer, but Orrin Kerr had an analysis that made sense to me. NYT has Bush signing the bill into law. Republican Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia voted for it and said it best: “Our government has no greater duty than to protect the American people. This legislation will ensure our intelligence agencies are given the tools they need to monitor terrorists overseas and keep our country safe from attack. We know that al Qaeda is still plotting against our country, and so we must continue to do everything we can to protect the American people.” blogs.dailymail.com