A significant portion of the Democrat base has pre-9/11 mentality of the onw where if you ignore something it will go away. Or even better if you have a bunch of junk in a house just move to the garage and it will disappear. The reason a lot of Senate Democrats like Webb and McCaskill for example, voted for this is becuae they live in 50/50 states and are accountable to alot of people not just the nutroots and have to get votes from independants and Republicans.
Another great portion is: "It says something about his national security world view, or his callowness, that Mr. Obama would vote to punish private companies that even the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee said had "acted in good faith." Had Senator Obama prevailed, a President Obama might well have been told "no way" when he asked private Americans to help his Administration fight terrorists. Mr. Obama also voted against the overall bill, putting him in MoveOn.org territory."
"We lost every single battle we had on this bill," conceded Chris Dodd, which ought to tell the Connecticut Senator something about the logic of what he was proposing. His own amendment -- to deny immunity from lawsuits to telecom companies that cooperated with the government after 9/11 -- didn't even get a third of the Senate. It lost 67-31, though notably among the 31 was possible Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama. (Hillary Clinton was absent, while John McCain voted in favor.)
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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