House FISA Yes Votes
The following people solemnly swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. Yesterday’s vote gutted the Fourth Amendment; can any of them explain how their actions did not actively damage the Constitution?
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Yes! And Obama will vote for it to!
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
She is no conservative.
See her unconstitutional votes at my old blog:
mickeywhite.blogspot.com
See current info at:
bluecollarrepublican.com
Mickey
Rossville TN
I've been doing some reading online, Dan, about this and there is some talk that the telecoms ONLY have immunity from the civil suits but not from criminal law suits. Despite that, Pelosi & Hoyer never should have brought this to the floor to be voted on. What a couple of asinine imbeciles they are! Are they protecting themselves from prosecution too? Oh probably.
I'm not sure Obama will vote for this or not. We'll have to wait and see. I have a feeling it will pass even if he votes against it.
Marsha Blackburn is a liberal? Oh please Mickey! She's a typical jackboot licking neocon. There isn't a Bush policy she doesn't dislike.
And what did Senator Barack Obama say?
Obama Supports FISA Legislation, Angering Left
By Paul Kane
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) today announced his support for a sweeping intelligence surveillance law that has been heavily denounced by the liberal activists who have fueled the financial engines of his presidential campaign.
In his most substantive break with the Democratic Party’s base since becoming the presumptive nominee, Obama declared he will support the bill when it comes to a Senate vote, likely next week, despite misgivings about legal provisions for telecommunications corporations that cooperated with the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program of suspected terrorists.