John Cornyn explains complex issues in simple terms. Here is Cornyn’s analogy. Suppose you’re sitting at home on your couch and a police officer knocks on your window and says that he needs to borrow your car so he can apprehend a dangerous criminal. Would you be willing to lend him the car if you thought you were going to get sued for it later?
Yeah…probably not.
So, obviously it would be wrong to allow people to sue the telecommunications corporations for giving their information to the government.
That is seriously the argument that John Cornyn just made on the Senate floor.
I just wonder when Congress passed and when a president signed a law that made it explicitly illegal to loan your car to a police officer.
The Republicans are so bad at lying. The Democrats are much craftier. I mean, Senator Reid says he opposes immunity for telecommunications corporations. Cornyn never claimed that.