After reading and posting in an excellent Recommended diary by Thereisnospoon, I got a reply from marketgeek that gave me an idea on how to finally fix FISA once and for all.
It is pretty obvious that Rep. Hoyer has some powerful motivation to cave in on FISA since most people in the country oppose giving the telecoms immunity.
marketgeek made it plain to me what that motivation is.
Steny has received $111,000 from communications/electronics PACs over the past couple of years.
Amazing, isn't it? So cheap to buy off a Congressman these days. The telecoms are getting a great bargain there for sure. Just think of how much the lawyers fees would be alone for those poor poor mega-corporations to have to defend their actions. Good lawyers aren't cheap now, ask Larry Sinclair.
So let's buy him back. Surely we can raise enough to outbid their measly amount with all the Kossacks here. I know the UID's are up to 167K+, but obviously not all of those are active now. Still though, I bet that at least half of them are still active here. If we can each give $2, we can buy him back and then make him stop this foolishness and fix FISA once and for all.
That would be a bargain for us. Like the old Mark Twain joke, we know what he is and we are just haggling over the price now.
What do you say fellow Kossacks? Can we stop this foolishness AND get a good deal?