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Retroactive Telco Immunity Opponents Buying TV Ad
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Whether they're mad at the Republicans for creating the mess, the Democrats for caving in, or both, many are still pissed off over the grant of retroactive immunity for spying on American citizens for no reason. And now some of them are trying to do something about it — they're buying an advertisement on cable TV. While it's not entirely clear what good, if any, this will do given that it's too late, at least it's cheap to participate — they're looking for $6 donations. The ideas is that, if more grass-roots groups do this kind of thing, their 'representatives' won't be able to afford to blow them off as easily."
Clinton to her credit abstained
Regardless of where you stand on the telco wiretapping, the legislative issue on wiretapping was only whether or not a bunch of greedy lawyers want another set of deep pockets to go plundering. Left wing leaders don't care about the spying. They just want another set of excuses to try and destroy the American economy even more than all their environmental regulation already has. The sad thing is that Republicans open themselves up over and over again for this sort of plundering by the left, as some twisted form of appeasement. They should have just made the wiretapping illegal, should have let the banks fail and homeowners get foreclosed, and stood for something rather than borrowing ever more on the backs of the taxpayers for others moral hazards.
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