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Telecom Amnesty Opponents Back New Amendment
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "With the telecoms all but assured of amnesty for their participation in illegal spying, there's now one last amendment in their way — the Bingaman amendment. Because President Bush is unwilling to sign FISA reform without immunity, and because Blue Dog Democrats fear for their reelection unless FISA reform as a whole passes, most compromise positions are already off the table. So the new amendment seeks to sidestep part of the problem by moving it to a later date. It would put the court cases and amnesty provision on hold until a report is completed detailing exactly what happened, allowing Congress to consider denying amnesty at that time. There's an EFF campaign to support both this and the Dodd-Feingold amendment, which would strip immunity altogether."
Can't we just make it so if their popularity goes below a certain amount that an ejection seat in congress launches them somewhere out over the Atlantic?
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
Look, can we just leave Mohammed out of this, please? Also, you left out ????.
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Can't we just make it so if their popularity goes below a certain amount that an ejection seat in congress launches them somewhere out over the Atlantic?
Well as soon as that happened, in the very next poll everyone would express disapproval of their representatives, not because they actually disapproved but simply to see the spectacle of a few hundred politicians launched out of the capitol into the ocean.
The next batch of politicians that are elected would, too, find themselves immediately disapproved of and launched into the ocean.
Soon, due to the power vacuum, it would be necessary to hold elections every day, as on the start of the next day they'd all be launched into the ocean. Crowds would form around the Capitol Building and it would be D.C.'s top tourist attraction.
Pretty quickly the Capitol Building would become known as the Politician Suicide Booth, and the country would soon be rid of all politicians crazy enough to actually seek election, and the seats would remain empty.
So yeah, this is pretty much the perfect idea. We can call it the Linzeal Solution if you want.
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straight into an obamanation.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
President Obama: "Hello, this is President Obama Telecom CEO: "Hello Mr. President, what can I do for you today." President Obama: "The CIA, NSA and the Mossad have presented me with incontrovertible proof that there is going to be massive bio war attack against several US cities in the next 3 weeks, and we really need your help." Telecom CEO: "Excuse me Mr. President, when you were a Senator, didn't you suck up to those move on dot org shits and vote to let your Jihadist loving ACLU comrades sic half the ambulance chasers in Frisco on us? President Obama: "Well uh, I uh .."
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