Bringing The Heat

Good for the ACLU for showing some principles. They ran an ad criticizing Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in their own home papers for caving on the FISA bill.

When Democratic Leaders Allow the Bush Administration to Eavesdrop on Americans, It's BAAAAAAAAAD.

When Americans elected a new Congress last year, we expected the leadership to stand up to George Bush, to fight to restore the civil liberties we had lost in the previous six years. Instead, this summer, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi caved to yet another Bush assault on our freedoms.

They've enabled a revision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveilliance Act (FISA) that unbelievably gives new powers to Attorney General Gonzales, new powers to eavesdrop on American citizens without any meaningful court or Congressional oversight.

We don't need sheep protecting the Bill of Rights.

We need lions.

Reid and Pelosi need to understand that we cannot be content to be in the majority if we're not going to do anything with it but acquiesce to right-wing power grabs.