Before recess yesterday, the stalwarts running the country in the Senate approved a six-month extension of the Patriot Act, while killing any chance of drilling in Alaska’s ANWR. Amidst other BS.
Dems and some GOPers such as Senator John Sununu (R-NH) added a month to the “time out” due on the Patriot Act this August. President Bush wanted it renewed fully, since our enemies - terrorists. Remember them? - were failing to adhere to a similar senate-type Take-a-Break-for-Christmas schedule.
The media condensed the “victory” of the Left and their supporters into a single issue problem noting that the extension would have given the “Federal Bureau of Investigation authority to wiretap and compel businesses and organizations to provide information on suspected terrorists.”
Well, we can’t have that!
As for drilling in the ANWR …well, hell, Senators don’t pay for their gasoline — or anything else. We do.
After their “marathon” session, these fat cats got to go home for Christmas and then get to come back for the next 365 days and not take a stand on anything that will prevent them from getting re-elected.
A Tom Clancy novel ends with the terrorist bad guys flying a 747 into a presidential inauguration, killing most of the Federal government — prez, VP, cabinet heads, congress, senators, judges, etc. The next book begins with all replaced by non-elected/non-politicians who - for at least a couple of terms - actually get things done FOR THE PEOPLE. Oh, they eventually become fat cats as well, but for a while they run government like a business and use common sense in their law making, etc. …
I can dream, can’t I?
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