To read the editorials this week, you’d think that Barack Obama was more closely approximating some kind of consensus by saying that he’ll vote for the new FISA bill even if it contains telecom amnesty. They call it “moving towards the center.”
The thing is, according to this poll, 61% of the public wants the government to need a warrant before a phone tap. Only 31% support warrantless wiretaps. 59% of the public rejects the idea of telecom amnesty.
Since when is a minority view considered to be the center? And since when is breaking a promise to filibuster against an unpopular bill, and then a couple months later saying you’ll vote for it considered to be wisely moving towards that center?
This is not consensus building. This is consensus fucking. It’s the abandonment of a popular position in order to espouse the opposing unpopular one. Now he gets to be labeled a flip-flopper with the added bonus of having landed on the wrong side of the issue.
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