Wisconsin has all kinds of lawmakers representing us in Washington. We've got excellent people like Russ Feingold at one end, mediocre lawmakers like Sen. Herb Kohl in the middle, and total dickheads like Rep. James Sensenbrenner at the other end. For some unknown reason, Sensenbrenner has a lock on his district, despite being the perfect symbol of the previous congress. He's a font of idiotic ideas, a spouter of antidemocratic sentiments, and has all the phony patriotism endemic in his party.
He's the go-to-guy if you have some idiotic right wing candy like a ban on flag burning or a political fad like term limits. A 'flags in evey classroom and screw the books' sort of guy. Unfortunately, Sensenbrenner's not an empty suit -- he actually believes in all this crap. But it's more about winning elections with stuff that sounds good than it is about passing effective legislation.
This press release from Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz may reawaken a memory from the bad old days of 2005. If not, it'll serve to introduce you to the man. In June of 2005, congress held hearings on abuses of the USA PATRIOT act, hearing the testimony of those who's civil liberties had been curtailed. Sensenbrenner ran the Judiciary Committee like a Stalinist...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
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