Git out o' jail free

Lambert and digby grok the nature of our new corporate overlords.

Lambert:

...Suppose you were dealing with an eight-year-old kid, maybe your kid.

The kid comes to you, and says “I did something, uh, really bad. And if you promise not to punish me for it, I’ll tell you what it was...”

But the best reason not to make the deal, not to give the kid a get out of jail free card, is because if you do, the kid will just keep doing it. Again and again, and again.

Just like every other corporation will, about anything, after the Democrats gut the rule of law “just this one time.”

Anyhow, who needs the deal? Why not just subpoena the telcos?

Umm... because the telcos own the Congress?

digby:

...It's pretty clear why McConnell is so hellbent on immunity for telcoms isn't it? This man is one of the architects of a new shadowy, privatized defense industry that's sprung up over the past few years, an industry that's paid for by you and me, but over which we don't have any say, either as individuals or through our representatives in congress. It makes Ike's military industrial complex look positively benign by comparison.

His insistence on this telcom liability and, considering his job, rather bizarre willingness to engage in demagogic public relations makes you wonder: Who is Michael McConnell working for?

I think that's pretty clear. But that's a rhetorical question, no?