There may be a darker reason behind why the Democratic leadership is backing the FISA cave-in, beyond them being a bunch of spineless fucks not worth the oxygen they use.
The Democrats may be looking at the power that the Republicans have managed to invest in the presidency and they may be saying "me want."
While there may be some street justice in the Democrats being able to order up wiretaps on Republicans on the flimsiest of excuses or throwing a bunch of Republican politicians in jail on trumped-up charges, the caution is that such power is corrupting in and of itself. The Founding Fathers knew that unlimited power, gained for ostensibly good reasons, will turn the wielder of such power into evil.
The Founding Fathers also knew that once the leader of a nation has unlimited power, no such leader will ever surrender it of his free will. Such power was lost by revolution or by the collapse of the state from within or the destruction of the state from an external enemy. Sometimes it was a combination of factors, such as when the Roman Empire rotted from within until it could be conquered.
No good comes of a nation that gives its leaders unchecked power.
And if we don't rein in our imperial presidency, no good will come of us.
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