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Democrats Fail to Make a Stand Yet Again

Yesterday in the Senate, there was a vote on whether or not to add a provision to a defense bill that would bar people held as "terror suspects" from filing lawsuits to challenge their detentions.  Republican Lindsey Graham from South Carolina came up with the idea.  What a peach.  He feels that these examples of "lawsuit abuse" are tying up Dept of Justice resources.  Hey, you know what?  We should bar anyone from filing lawsuits unless they are corporations or meet a minimum income requirement.  That sure would cut down on the number of lawsuits using up resources.  And, hey, let's make more illegal things legal so that the courts have fewer cases to deal with.  We can start with police brutality.  And corruption.  Corruption's a big resource drainer.  Oh, oh, and how about domestic violence?  Those chicks need to learn their place.  They get all these weird ideas fro the TV, you know?

So, that's not the worst bit.  The worst bit is that in the 49 to 44 vote, 5 of those "Yeas" were Democrats.  Republicrats.  Moles.  If the 5 had voted against the provision, the vote would have been 49 to 44 against instead of for.  Here's a list of the 5 Republicans posing as Democrats and links to their sites in case they belong to you and you wanted to leave them a note:

Kent Conrad - N. Dakota
Mary Landrieu - Louisiana
Joe Lieberman - Connecticut (big surprise there.  neocon in democrat clothing)
Ben Nelson - Nebraska
Ron Wyden - Oregon (josh and robn, have you got something to say?)

Needless to say, I wrote a letter to the Democratic Party and here it is:

What are you guys doing?  5 Democrats sided with the Republicans in adding the Graham provision.  That's disgusting.  These lawsuits are not "frivolous" as Graham describes them.  People are being detained and not charged, which is illegal no matter who they are.  If they are criminals, charge them, put them on trial, sentence them.  Should we make other crimes legal as well so they don't "clog up" the system with "frivolous" lawsuits?  You need to rein in those supposed Democrats in your party who continually side with the Republicans on these issues.  They need to toe the party line or choose a new party.  Deny any support to them in terms of campaigns and such.  If they want to be Republicans so badly, they can get their funding from them.  Unless, of course, this is the type of party you want to form.  A party that is fractured and kowtows to the Republicans and supports stripping away basic human rights.

By min | November 11, 2005, 6:36 AM | Liberal Outrage


Comments

Apparently it's not too late: http://thismodernworld.com/2472

Wyden is a wank. DeFazio is my man. http://www.firepile.com/images/marriage.jpg