House narrowly defeats bill to curb NSA spying

[schneiderguy]

Something extremely interesting, it needed exactly 7 more votes to pass and 12 members of the House did not vote at all. Exactly WTF where those assholes doing that was more important than casting a vote on this bill?

Taxpayer funded blowjobs, I'm guessing.

 

[Genx87]

I think we can put that fork a little deeper into the "small" govt republican is bullshit.
http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/25/chris-christie-attacks-this-strain-of-li

Christie considers libertarianism(small unintrusive govt) to be dangerous thought.

 

[PingSpike]

I heard the way the vote went down was once it was obvious there weren't enough votes for it to pass the guys sitting on their hands rolled in and voted yes on the dead bill to score political points. So in reality there was probably never any chance of this passing.

 

[BoberFett]

I think we can put that fork a little deeper into the "small" govt republican is bullshit.
http://reason.com/blog/2013/07/25/chris-christie-attacks-this-strain-of-li

Christie considers libertarianism(small unintrusive govt) to be dangerous thought.

Fuck that fat pig. He should be more scared of heart attacks than he is terrorists.

Big government Republicans are irrelevant. The sooner they die off the better.

 

[BoberFett]

I heard the way the vote went down was once it was obvious there weren't enough votes for it to pass the guys sitting on their hands rolled in and voted yes on the dead bill to score political points. So in reality there was probably never any chance of this passing.

I would assume that's how most votes go that are popular with the constituents, but don't fit into the authoritarian model. Marijuana legalization will be the same way. Nobody in government wants to end it, so there will be a narrowly defeated vote. "Awww, sorry, we tried."

 

[BoberFett]

This really deserves its own thread, but the rabbit hole gets even deeper.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-5...eb-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/

So now they are asking for the passwords to accounts. There really is no end to the insanity.

The US government needs to be burnt to the ground. Time to start over.

 

[Jaskalas]

Big government Republicans are irrelevant.

I believe they have consistently either held the Presidency, or been nominated to run for that office - my entire life. As in, the Republican party has NEVER supported any other kind of Republic. 100% Big government all the way.

!@#$ Christie, !@#$ the GOP.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Dammit mine voted the wrong way. Time to register as a R so I can vote in the primary to block his ass next election.