The Milking Schedule
It should be obvious to all that the whole effort by the Democrat leadership of the House to recraft the FISA law has to do not with national security, but with the schedule for the next election cycle.
The ACLU issued a statement expressing delight over the House Democrats’ new bill and was also pleased that the Democrats would let the authorization to track terrorists expire in only two years as if there is any realistic chance that the global war on terror could be behind us by then. (emphasis added)
Because this has already been demonstrated to be a very productive cow:
The Center for Responsive Politics reports that trial lawyers contributed some $85 million to Democratic candidates in the 2006 election cycle. (emphasis added)
Disgusting!
