<story><title>Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate</title><url>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57343951/sopa-tweet-triggers-political-explosion-delays-vote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jen_h</author><text>If you aren&apos;t already depressed enough following these SOPA hearings, check out this interview with Mr. King:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010120612252/us/politics-and-economics/rsn-exclusive-a-conversation-with-congressman-steve-king-taking-back-congress.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010120612252/us/politics-and-e...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Choice bit:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;RSN: Cliff Kincaid recently had a National Press Club conference where he called for resurrection of the Congressional internal security committees along the lines of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Would you support recreation of such committees?&lt;p&gt;King: I would. Something similar. If we called it the House Un-American Activities Committee, that would be lighting up the history of McCarthy in a way that wouldn&apos;t be necessary, although I am often quoted as saying &quot;McCarthy was a hero for America.&quot; He was. He was right far more times than he was wrong. It is a historical fact. But I would submit a different committee name so that we don&apos;t have to deal with the history, and move forward. I think that is a good process and I would support it.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;My inner cynic isn&apos;t surprised by this, but that little hopeful light that typically keeps the cynic in check is flickering out.&lt;p&gt;(Nota bene: Under SOPA, RSN could take down Hacker News for this comment, no?)</text></comment>
<story><title>Tweet temporarily derails SOPA debate</title><url>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57343951/sopa-tweet-triggers-political-explosion-delays-vote/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>angersock</author><text>So, does anyone here honestly believe we owe these clowns anything?&lt;p&gt;How many of you in meetings with a VC tweet about being bored and surfing for cats with cheeseburgers?&lt;p&gt;How many of you would keep an employee who did this during an engineering meeting?&lt;p&gt;How many of you would keep working at a job when your boss ignores you so they can check their fantasy football teams?&lt;p&gt;The only funny (morbidly, blackly funny) part of this is that that wasn&apos;t what stopped the debate--it was a finicky rule about choice of language, some pieces of which date back over a century and a half.&lt;p&gt;Folks, these are the people running the US. These are the people who have a monopoly on force, and who claim the moral highground to do with you what they will for the nation.&lt;p&gt;Why the fuck aren&apos;t you doing something?</text></comment>