Dangerous Politics
They did it again! The Democrats in Congress cannot help themselves when it comes to playing politics with all kinds of issues; they have to politicize them, whatever they are. Their latest attempt deals with the renewal of the Protect America Act. The act deals with the surveillance used by governmental agencies to monitor e-mails and phone calls in America to and from abroad. The renewal of this law has been on the calendar for over six months and Congress wanted to make some changes, no surprise there since management of Congress changed to Democrats since the initial enactment of the law. The House of Representatives passed such a revised law by denying immunity to telecommunications companies who cooperated with the government in this monitoring process. The U.S. Senate passed a bill on February 12, 2008, with overwhelming bipartisan support of 68 Senators; this bill provided continued immunity for telecommunication companies who have helped the U.S. government in this eavesdropping effort. Immunity meant shielding these companies from lawsuits by individuals or companies in this country.
Enter the Democrat leadership in the House of Representatives. They did not like this provision and simply stalled acting on the Senate version of the bill. As a result, this act has now expired and its future hangs in the balance. While they explained it differently, needing more time to study the Senate bill and so on, the real reason behind the Democrats action is strictly political. The Republicans have accused the Democrats that their motives are very obvious: They want to strip the immunity provision out of the bill so that one of their major donor bases, namely Trial Lawyers, can go after these companies, file lawsuits and make lots of money in the process!
This is an absolute outrage! To play with national security in the interest of campaign fund donors and contributors is such an egregious action, it borders on treason! It is one thing, to let lawyers go after companies who might inflict damage on the public’s health; i.e., the tobacco companies and insurance firms, just to name a few, but to open companies up for such action who support our government in obtaining information on our countries enemy’s communications is truly beyond the pale and simply inexcusable. It should come as no surprise if these same companies will now be somewhat reluctant to continue this cooperation with the government, who can blame them. On the one hand, they are asked to provide information to our countries intelligence services in the Executive branch, yet the other branch, the Legislature says to them: “Do not do this or our buddies (who give us campaign donations), the trial lawyers will come after you and sue you for invasion of privacy and infringement of our civil liberties.”
It is very clear that by their action, the Democrats do not think that we are in a global war on terror. They call it fear mongering on the part of President Bush. Has anybody taken note of the fact that we have not been attacked on America’s soil since September 11, 2001? Does anybody think that they, our enemies would not attack us again if we let our guard down and made it easier for them? Or could it have something to do with the fact that our current President is taking national security very, very serious? We think the latter is the case!
It is shameful for the Democrats to play political games with this issue. While there can be disagreement between the parties over all other topics, national security should be off the table, period! It should definitely not be weakened in favor of the financial interest of political donors. It now remains to be seen what will happen once Congress comes back from their ten-day vacation. And once again, the liberal mainstream media in this country is playing along with the Democrats in that they cover this item in the back pages of their magazines and newspapers and hardly broadcast it on television or radio. It is for them also not an important enough issue to place it on page one. The consequence of this is an uninformed or should we say, under informed public and that is by design. If this issue would get the attention in the media it deserves, those Congressional Representatives would get an earful from their own constituencies back home and do what is right for America instead of playing games with our security.
We here at this site once again can only write about this as we see it from our common sense perspective. We believe that the fastest way for our country to go down in a hurry, economically and in all other areas is to relax our national security while just hoping for the best. We really have to wonder what makes Democrats in power (Congress) tick. They have all the time it seems to investigate steroid use in Baseball by bringing players before Committees and accusing them of lying etc. They have plenty of time to pursue political investigations into actions of former and present members of the current Administration but when it comes to what matters to every American, there is simply not enough time for that!
Words like shameful, disgraceful, outrageous and even Un-American are not strong enough to describe the Democrats in Congress, at least those individuals in charge! We have to wonder if it takes another major terrorist attack in America the likes of what happened on September 11, 2001, for these people to get real or should we say, serious. Or would they, the Democrats just do what they do best: Blame President Bush? Time for Congressional Term Limits, don’t you think?
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