This post touches on a great hope and a dark fear.
I hope Obama is privately furious with the NSA, and that before his second term is through he will have crafted and implemented sweeping reforms.
I fear that our President, any President, can no longer reign in the intelligence community, that doing so would trigger shadowy threats on his life and the lives of his family. Perhaps enough conflict between the President and the intelligence community would lead to Secret Servicemen standing down during an attack on the President. I hope this is nothing other than nagging paranoia, and that my most reasonable impulses represent the reality.
The House Majority can set the rules. Democrats couldn't stop it. It happened because Republicans did it on purpose to prevent democracy from occurring.
This post touches on a great hope and a dark fear.
I hope Obama is privately furious with the NSA, and that before his second term is through he will have crafted and implemented sweeping reforms.
I fear that our President, any President, can no longer reign in the intelligence community, that doing so would trigger shadowy threats on his life and the lives of his family. Perhaps enough conflict between the President and the intelligence community would lead to Secret Servicemen standing down during an attack on the President. I hope this is nothing other than nagging paranoia, and that my most reasonable impulses represent the reality.
The House Majority can set the rules. Democrats couldn't stop it. It happened because Republicans did it on purpose to prevent democracy from occurring.
I think the rule change gave this ability to the majority leader, which would be Eric Cantor. Not that that helps anything.
The rule was an anti-gridlock provision. By changing it, the GOP comes down firmly in support of gridlock. The Gridlock Obstruction Party.