Could I hate Democrats any more?
Um, yes.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/17/hoyer/
There are reports from very reliable sources that Hoyer, after engineering this "compromise" and ensuring it has enough votes to pass, will then vote against it so he can claim it's not his fault (as will Pelosi). Worse, the Democratic leadership in the Senate (Reid and Durbin) have been saying that while they oppose the "compromise" and will vote against it, they will do nothing to impede its passage.
The fact that Hoyer is outright lying about his central role in this deal, along with what is obviously the insultingly deceptive plan of Congressional Democrats to pretend that this bill somehow doesn't provide amnesty when the bill makes immediate and conclusory dismissal of the telecom lawsuits a foregone conclusion (without any inquiry into whether telecoms broke our laws) -- a sham process which the ACLU calls "judicial theater" -- only compounds the cravenness and deceit here.
You can donate here to fight the telecom immunity.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/17/hoyer/
There are reports from very reliable sources that Hoyer, after engineering this "compromise" and ensuring it has enough votes to pass, will then vote against it so he can claim it's not his fault (as will Pelosi). Worse, the Democratic leadership in the Senate (Reid and Durbin) have been saying that while they oppose the "compromise" and will vote against it, they will do nothing to impede its passage.
The fact that Hoyer is outright lying about his central role in this deal, along with what is obviously the insultingly deceptive plan of Congressional Democrats to pretend that this bill somehow doesn't provide amnesty when the bill makes immediate and conclusory dismissal of the telecom lawsuits a foregone conclusion (without any inquiry into whether telecoms broke our laws) -- a sham process which the ACLU calls "judicial theater" -- only compounds the cravenness and deceit here.
You can donate here to fight the telecom immunity.