Democratic U.S. lawmakers defied bushitler on Thursday

[lonestarnot]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. lawmakers defied President George W. Bush on Thursday and moved ahead with an anti-terror spy bill that allows lawsuits against telephone companies that participated in his warrantless surveillance program after the September 11 attacks.


As the Democratic-led House of Representatives prepared to vote on the measure on Thursday, Bush denounced it as inadequate and urged the chamber to pass the Senate version of the bill, saying these companies deserved praise, not punishment.

About 40 civil suits have been filed accusing AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc and Sprint Nextel Corp of violating the privacy rights of law-abiding Americans swept up in the electronic surveillance of phone calls and e-mails.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080313/pl_nm/bush_surveillance_dc


WOOOOO HOOOOOO!

[annabanana]

1. Let's see what happens when the House comes out of "Secret Session"

I hate secrets.

[lonestarnot]

2. I've been in a rat hole all day. Had not heard of secret session. Ack

I don't like the sound of that!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. There will be Shub thugs there to scare the shit of Congress and my fear is that

they will once again filet the backbone out of the Democrats.

[Robbien]

3. Wait. What about the secret behind closed door meeting with GOPers?

Dems agreed to talk secretly with GOPers about the bill. What's up with that?

[annabanana]

5. link here. .discussion ongoing

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cs_cspan_wm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[Mountainman]

4. Let's have the trials and see if they deserve praise. Good freeper logic says if you're

innocent you have nothing to fear. Oh I forgot, that doesn't apply to their oxes only ours.