I’m sure everyone’s heard that FISA granted the NSA authority to collect Verizon call records. Let’s all do jazz hands and scream at the top of our lungs. Oh, the indignation!
Now let’s calm down and look at who voted to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Here are the tallies for the House and the Senate. That’s an awful lot of red in the yea column, isn’t it? There’s Chambliss and Isakson voting for it. There are Kingston, Westmoreland, Price, Linder, Broun, Deal, and Gingrey.
Blasted Democrats! I mean…oh, wait. The only Georgia representatives to vote against it were Hank Jones and John Lewis.
This is proof that party loyalty gets us nowhere when it comes to civil liberties. You have to know your legislators’ records, you have to vote intelligently, and you have to hold their feet to the fire. That, or you can check the pretty boxes by color and see where that lands us.