Depressing

It's very sad to see the Democratic leadership cave in to Republican demands for warrantless wiretapping and telecom immunity. Let's hope the Senate can stop it. I'm not optimistic.

You'd think with Bush at 24% approval, the Democrats would finally stand up to him. After all, Bush has the opposite of the Midas Touch. Everything he touches turns to shit. If you simply opposed everything Bush did over the last eight years, you'd be right about 99% of the time.

I was particularly dishearted to read that Obama has supported this capitulation/compromise. I don't really understand his reasoning, and I don't think he's being totally straightforward here. He is a former Constitutional law professor, he knows better than this. I think pure politics has led him to support this piece of shit bill. One, he prevents McCain and the right wing from making it an issue for the next five months. Two, he gives himself major bipartisan brownie points. Republicans and media pundits have been questioning whether Obama has ever took a stand against his base on a bipartisan issue. Well, this one definitely qualifies. Fighting this bad FISA bill has been the number one priority of the liberal blogosphere (outside of getting more Dems elected). And Obama has really -- to be polite -- disappointed us here.

Let's hope that if he is elected president, he'll either shut this warrantless wiretapping down, or use it to tap the phones of every corrupt Republican in America. And he better be serious about having his attorney general investigate Bush's crimes.