The RNC, Rush Limbaugh, and Dick Cheney are pretending like the FISA question is a sop to trial lawyers, who have given money to various Democrats running for President.
So I asked Jon Haber, CEO of the American Association of Justice, to comment. Here's what he said.
No matter how much the RNC - at the bidding of telecomm CEOs - tries to deflect the real issue, we have nothing to do with illegal wiretapping since we actually believe in the rule of law.
John McCain, however, has a different view.
I'm very serious when I say, I think it's disgraceful that the House of Representatives didn't act and this is going to lapse. We're fighting an implacable enemy here. I cannot imagine the House of Representatives not moving forward, and letting this bill just lapse. And frankly, I was proud of the president by saying he would delay his trip to Africa to try to get this thing done. This is a compelling issue of national security.
I'm sure John McCain's willingness to let phone companies off the hook for illegally spying on us has nothing to do with the $1.1 million he's gotten over his political career from telecom interests and that his track record coddling this industry is just a random occurrence, not a pattern of pay-to-play. And I'm sure he's protecting Bush and Cheney because he's a maverick.
