{"id":1123,"date":"2008-03-14T17:19:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T23:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2008-03-17T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T17:55:48","slug":"its-about-damn-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s about damn time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/03\/14\/AR2008031400803.html?hpid=topnews\">The Democrats finally found some chutzpah.<\/a>  Finally, they&#8217;re standing up to Dubya with something more than a non-binding resolution.  It&#8217;s nice to see government actually working.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the bill they passed will never pass the Senate, and even if it did, the president will not sign it.  But that&#8217;s fine and good.  The point is that the Cheney bill would have expanded the FISA court&#8217;s powers and granted telecom immunity for illegal wiretaps.  Instead, they passed a bill which would instead restrict the current FISA powers.<\/p>\n<p>Jonah has often claimed that were the Democrats in power on September 12th, they would have mounted a far worse attack on civil liberties than the Republicans, but this is pretty darned good evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrats finally found some chutzpah. Finally, they&#8217;re standing up to Dubya with something more than a non-binding resolution. It&#8217;s nice to see government actually working. Of course, the bill they passed will never pass the Senate, and even if it did, the president will not sign it. But that&#8217;s fine and good. The point&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggishness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nachzen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}