Do you think Nancy Pelosi is akin to Neville Chamberlain over the FISA capitulation?

What say you?

Please? Let's try not to sink to the Republicans' level. Not that I approve of Pelosi's actions (I don't) but that is still not the right analogy.

this should be good

:shrug:

"Benedict Arnold" = "traitor"
"Benedict Arnold" has become an American expression used to describe a traitor, an American equivalent to calling someone a Quisling, a term known to few in America.

the bill was the best of the worst

are you one of these purists who want everyone to follow the party line or else?

if so, you missed your calling in the Lenin era

Why not she has

Pelosi said fascism in our time

But it's an inherently facile and shallow comparison -- not even apples and oranges -- more like applesauce and pork chops. They go well together, are traditionally mentioned, together, but they're different kind of things.

You want to make a serious comparison, for Congressional sellouts, consider

• Clinton-era Dems on DOMA
  
• Johnson killing the 1956 civil rights bill, after supporting Brown the year before...and pushing the same bill later, or
  
• Roosevelt agreeing to the exclusion of farm and domestic workers (i.e. blacks and Hispanics) in order to get Social Security passed, or
  
• Stephen Douglas's keep-everyone-on-board Compromise of 1850.
  
• John Adams' legislative overreaction to the French Revolution & the Quasi-war.

She is not just giving them what they want. She and the other democrats are BEGGING to kiss bush's political ass.

Pelosi is an active participant. She perpetrates this and the other evils out of her own desire to rule over others.

Chamberlain was desperate to avert war.

Pelosi is more like a quisling.

for those that have actively collaborated with this misAdministration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France

1) Her silence on the issue of wiretaps. Ms. Pelosi was informed of the steps the Bush Administration were taking by the Bush Administration.

2) These wiretaps were used on everyone in the United States, including Ms. Pelosi. You can bet your bottom dollar on that.

Nancy Pelosi is protecting her party and the government, such as it is. The victims are the country and its citizens. This is a calculated choice forced by the Bush Administration. This choice protects her and her alone. This choice also protects the power she has amassed. The outcome for Nancy, the Democrats, and the government will not be pretty when all is said and done.

The real problem for all persons involved with the wiretaps are the following:

The Bush administration properly revealed to members in congress their intentions of wiretaps and other measures in response to 9/11. The informed members of congress are aloud to make there concerns be known to the Bush Administration. The informed members of congress are not aloud to make their concerns be known to other members of congress or the general public, not even staff members for research proposes. This gives the Bush administration the upper hand the wiretapping event. All the members of congress could do was complain to the Bush administration, which they did. Of course, the Bush administration did not listen.

The media is not and will not help in this matter. The strategy was set when the New York Times decided to hold off for a over a year before publishing the story. The only reason the New York Times did published the NSA wiretap story, was a book written by journalist James Risen was due out the following week. The story was published December 16, 2005 and was written in October 2004(?). The media will made the same excuses: its not our job, how were we suppose to know?, we did just fine, it is up to the Democrats.

The following is the first 4 paragraphs of the story. Please do not ask for a link because is comes from Lexis-Nexis.

<snip>
Months after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States to search for evidence of terrorist activity without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying, according to government officials.

Under a presidential order signed in 2002, the intelligence agency has monitored the international telephone calls and international e-mail messages of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States without warrants over the past three years in an effort to track possible ''dirty numbers'' linked to Al Qaeda, the officials said. The agency, they said, still seeks warrants to monitor entirely domestic communications.

The previously undisclosed decision to permit some eavesdropping inside the country without court approval was a major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices, particularly for the National Security Agency, whose mission is to spy on communications abroad. As a result, some officials familiar with the continuing operation have questioned whether the surveillance has stretched, if not crossed, constitutional limits on legal searches.

''This is really a sea change,'' said a former senior official who specializes in national security law. ''It's almost a mainstay of this country that the N.S.A. only does foreign searches.''
<end of snip>

The Bush is lying when stated that they seek a warrant for domestic spying.

They take reprehensible actions in the name of expediency and are thereby committed to defending those actions without the reason of doing what they believed to be right.

Nancy is all about Nancy and only Nancy. Fuck you, you're not Nancy, I know because I am Nancy.

or will vote for this legislation, including our nominee? Are they all akin to Neville Chamberlain? if you say yes, why are you a democrat?

has her own CYA agenda. She along with some of the other so called leaders are up to their eyeballs in complicity, they know that if Bu$hCo is held accountable sooner or later someone will get around to asking her, Hoyer, Emanuel and a few others about, either, their role in all of the illegalities or why they ignored it and looked the other way..

said & did nothing about those crimes.

Nice, now it's back to, "Eat shit Pelosi!!" :thumbsup: