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Glenn Greenwald, a constitutional lawyer, and a antiwar liberal, discusses why Joe Liberman’s appointment today as chairman of - of all committees - the Homeland Security Committee, is not change but a tradition of bipartisan cooperation in destroying the country.  To quote Greenwald:

 Look at every major Bush initiative, every controversial signature Bush policy over the last eight years, and one finds virtually nothing but massive bipartisan support for them — the Patriot Act (original enactment and its renewal); the invasion of Afghanistan; the attack on, and ongoing occupation of, Iraq; the Military Commissions Act (authorizing enhanced interrogation techniques, abolishing habeas corpus, and immunizing war criminals); expansions of warrantless eavesdropping and telecom immunity; declaring part of Iran’s government to be “terrorists”; our one-sided policy toward Israel; the $700 billion bailout; The No Child Left Behind Act, “bankruptcy reform,” and on and on.

Most of those were all enacted with virtually unanimous GOP support and substantial, sometimes overwhelming, Democratic support:  the very definition of “bipartisanship.”  That’s just a fact

Ahh, bipartisanship.  That’s why we elected these people, thats right!  Despite all the rancor about how Congress is too “partisan” on the television, the no. 1 enablers of the Bush administration and all of their programs were, democrats.  Remember the Patriot Act, FISA, the Iraq War, the Bailout, the pro-Israel resolution during the Lebanon war, the pro-Georgia resolution during the Russo-Georgian war?  Yep… the democrats, including Obama, Clinton, Emmanuel, Lieberman, and company voted for that too!

During Obama’s reign we can expect corporate socialism to continue, the free market to become an endangered species, higher taxes, and more wars in addition to Bush’s screw ups!

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