How DO They Sleep At Night?

That sound you hear in the distance is my mind, boggling. From WSJ.com

It would be “healthy” if the Senate spends more time debating an overhaul of domestic-spying laws now moving through Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday.

The House passed the legislation last week, despite misgivings and outright opposition from many Democrats. Pelosi voted for the bill, saying legislation was urgently needed to update federal authority to collect intelligence information. But she said the provision granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that aided the government surveillance program is “a cause for great anger” among the American people.

“It would be healthy if (the public) heard more about it… even if the resolution is the same,” Pelosi said, when asked by reporters whether she thinks Senate Democrats, including Sen. Barack Obama, should filibuster the legislation updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as it heads to the Senate floor this week.

Gee, if only Nancy Pelosi were in a position of authority in some kind of organization where she could ensure that the public heard more about the issue.

Imagine, say, that there was some system so there could be, I don't know, public meeting sessions at which experts could be heard, some kind of, well, 'hearings'? Wouldn't it be great if someone like Nancy Pelosi was in charge of that system? Then she could maybe even decide that, if there hadn't been sufficient 'hearings' then there wouldn't be any vote. Instead of the way it is now, when a so-called 'compromise' is hammered out behind closed doors, and rushed to a vote before the public has time to find out too much about it.

It sure is a shame that Nancy Pelosi had no control over whether the public heard enough about this issue...