{"id":11737,"date":"2008-02-13T09:19:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/13\/when-will-someone-say-no.html"},"modified":"2008-02-13T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T16:19:54","slug":"when_will_someone_say_no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/when_will_someone_say_no.html","title":{"rendered":"When will someone say “No”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush continues to act as though he has carte blanche <\/em>to dictate laws<\/a> — and Congress, even ostensibly with a Democratic majority, continues to accept that. In some ways, they seem even less effective of an opposition than when they were in the minority.<\/p>\n

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U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday said he would oppose another temporary extension of a law empowering U.S. spy agencies to track communications of terrorism suspects without a court order and pressed Congress for a long-term fix.<\/p>\n

[…] “It’s time for Congress to ensure the flow of vital intelligence is not disrupted,” Bush told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “It is time for Congress to pass a law that provides a long-term foundation to protect our country and they must do so immediately.”<\/p>\n

[…]  “The time for debate is over,” Bush said. “I will not accept any temporary extension.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Assuming that the House Democrats don’t actually want to pass the retroactive immunity to telcos or allow the Administration all the wiretapping powers they want, they have two choices. They can pass a temporary extension, again, to allow more debate. Or they can just decline to accept those provisions in the Senate bill as the matter goes to conference committee.<\/p>\n

Bush remains able, somehow, to frame the debate as to it all being him <\/em>making the decisions, and Congress <\/em>being obstructionist. He doesn’t “accept” whatever he doesn’t like, and Congress seems willing to simply let him do so, for fear of being seen as “weak on terror”. They are, essentially, acting out of fear <\/em>— which means, ironically, that the terrorists (all of them) have won, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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