Politics

Libertarian activists are working to get state and local governments to cut off power and water to NSA facilities. Maybe this will mean consumers don't have to freeze to save electricity when it gets cold out.

"Here’s the crux of the bill: "It is the policy of this state to refuse material support, participation, or assistance to any federal agency which claims the power, or with any federal law, rule, regulation, or order which purports to authorize, the collection of electronic data or metadata of any person pursuant to any action not based on a warrant that particularly describes the person, place, and thing to be searched or seized.""

That's from Washington state.

Regarding NSA spying, Obama cares more about the feelings of his fellow rulers than the Constitution. This is true on every issue.

As expected, Republicans are already planning to surrender on the debt ceiling.

"“I’ve been saying publicly that once we voted for the budget, you knew that you were going to get a clean debt ceiling,” said conservative Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho), referring to the recently passed budget deal that he voted against. “The time to fight for spending cuts is when you’re talking about spending, not at debt ceiling time. So when people caved on the budget and caved on the [Ryan-Murray] agreement, it’s really hard for them to come back and say, ‘We don’t want to increase the debt ceiling’ when they’ve already voted for something that increases the debt.”"

That's pretty much what I wrote when this issue first came up. What a bunch of slime.

Full text of Obama's State of the Union address.