The House passed a FISA bill, sent to the Senate, the Senate added telecom immunity into the bill, passed it with 19 Democrats making it a fully bipartisan bill, the House got it back, stripped the telecom immunity out and just passed it again and will send it back to the Senate, which has no chance of passing it without immunity and if they did, it would be vetoed by Bush, so they will add it back, send it to the House and the their little game will continue.
So, while the politicians go on their break (another one) they leave with nothing accomplished because the bill they passed seven months ago was set to expire on February 1, 2008, they extended it and it expired on the 16th of February, after the Senate sent their bipartisan bill to the House, where the house in all their incompetence hasn't been able to get it passed.
Of course, America's safety will now have to wait until the politicians have had their break and then the Senate once again takes up the bill, where they are expected to re-add the immunity into it.
As the Crypt puts it:
The House passed a controversial electronic surveillance measure Friday afternoon, capping nearly a month of intense debate on the issue.
Tthe bill, though, faces little chance of approval in the Senate and a certain veto from President Bush, even if it did pass the Senate, ensuring that debate will continue on the issue into the spring.
Exactly..
Now what was the definition of insanity again?
Oh right..doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result.
The silver lining in all this, is Pelosi's Congress is doing everything perfectly to see to it that the Democrats get portrayed and continue to have the stigma they have held for decades.
Weak on National Security.
During a presidential election year no less.
Just a reminder here, yesterday the news came out that the majority, 62 percent to be exact, credit George Bush and his anti-terror policies for the fact that we have not had an attack since 9/11 on American soil.
I guess that is 62 percent of America that Pelosi and Company do not mind throwing away at this next election by hindering Bush's ability to keep America safe now.
Good going Pelosi, you might just single handedly hand John McCain the election.
Maybe we should thank you.
