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And, yes, I DO take it personally: Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Arlen Specter (cont'd)
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and Arlen Specter (cont'd)

this guy has a serious personality disorder... either that, or he is terminally confused on what is actually written in the u.s. constitution... you can't defend it one day and try to gut it the next...
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on modernizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the 1978 law that regulates domestic wiretapping and searches. The hearing is an effort on the part of committee Chairman Arlen Specter to move along his very dangerous bill... Mr. Specter described his proposal as a compromise with President Bush to ensure judicial review of the NSA program, which he called "a festering sore on our body politic." Yet his legislation would essentially respond to this festering sore by shooting the patient.

"modernizing," used in this context, has to be the most disingenuous and euphemistic word imaginable... "radicalizing," perhaps... "lobotomizing," more likely...

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