Quote Originally Posted by drone View Post
Then refresh my memory. What was the point of this post?

And after I detailed how the Dems screwed up (with the year and links to the law), I get this:
First off, most of what I believed we were discussing did indeed originate in the Republican dominated Congress. The only exception named thus far being the Telcom bill.

Second off, most of these laws were endorsed or ball rolled from the Administration, which fostered this whole hysteria mindset of "we have to curtail civil liberties to fight terrorism" which was often followed up with "people who have nothing to hide, have nothing to worry about." Not to mention the lies that came out first... that they were only spying on international calls between non-citizens, or weren't doing any warrantless wiretapping, etc. etc. It only became clear in retrospect what all had been going on, the Bush Admin covered its rear end every step of the way and denied it was doing anything illegal or illicit over and over.

Third, yes, what you guys are condemning the Dems for is not undoing every single bit of bad legislation passed from the Republican Congress in two years time. That is precisely what you are doing. And then claiming both parties are just as bad to every extent possible. You don't even have grounds to claim that until you look at a six year track record of the Dems in power, preferrably with a President who doesn't veto everything left and right, or kill bills before even going very far because of the threat of veto. And even the Dem voices that wanted to raise large protest under Rep majority were simply threatened with arbitrary changing of the Rules of Congress, and the nuclear option (basically death to any attempted filibuster.)

So, if you want to complain about these bills, look at the whole history. The Dems also do not have a veto proof majority and that has figured into their strategy in terms of "which battles to fight right now" also. Nothing I claimed was untrue... the majority of this crap is just still in effect b.s. from the previous Congress, and yes, in the last 2 years opposition has not been as forcefully vocal as one would hope. However the pitch of this whole argument is skewed, basically that the Bush admin using the hysteria around 9/11 passed and shoved through all these bad laws with a rubberstamp congress for 6 years, and then the Dems have failed to strip the place down to the floors with a veto-vulnerable majority and opposition President. So the declaration is, they both made this mess in equal parts. That's a screwed assessment.