Senators To Obama: Hey You Can End Bulk Phone Data Collection Today; Obama: Ha, Ha, Ha, Nope!

[woo me with science]

18. Still trying to pretend that the president's hands are merely tied, rather than

the truth: that he actively supports and defends the program, as does the corporate-purchased segment of our Congress.

See, that's the problem with the propaganda. First, it's desperate. You have been all over this thread demanding "cites" and acting as though the President did not mean to do what he obviously did, which is defend the program.

Second, it's inconsistent with reality to the point of being insulting. If the President really wanted to end bulk collection, he would not have defended it all along to this point. He would not have made public statements crooning that Americans need only to be made "comfortable" with it. He would not have rallied his Justice Department at numerous times to defend it. And he would not still be issuing absurd statements suggesting its importance to national security. He would be rallying the country behind ending it, and he would be twisting arms in Congress to make sure any necessary legislation gets to him.

And he would act publicly by having the DOJ not seek to renew the court order to hand over the data, from the FISA Court. You have been trying to imply here that it would be illegal for the DOJ not to renew the court order, which is shameless and untrue.

Really, the helpless Obama narrative gets old. The problem is corporate money in government that purchases politicians who then actively participate in the dismantling of our Constitution.

Obama is not working to end this collection. He has, in fact, been working all along to defend it. That is the takeaway message here, and all your attempts to use 215 here to attempt to imply the opposite do not change that fundamental problem we face.