There are no excuses to be made for the rollover of Congress, specifically 57 Democrats in the House and Senate, in codifying changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Changes that legalized the very behavior that a federal judge had ruled was a blatant violation of the act. It was an act of political cowardice and fundamental stupidity. Yes, I said stupidity.

The very purpose of FISA was to prevent the sort of egregious, unlawful behavior that the Bush administration was doing -- wiretapping people without a warrant.

Y'see, in the general public, when someone breaks the law, they get punished. They don't threaten the Legislature into altering that law.

I guess there is a different set of laws for those in the executive branch.

If these people don't think that Bush's goons are using the data to profile "troublesome" Americans, with no connection whatsoever to terrorists, then they are too delusional to occupy the offices that they hold. This man, his puppet master Cheney, and their goon Gonzales have proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted with a five dollar bill, let alone the private information of millions of Americans.

By rolling over, they have validated Bush's "unitary executive" (i.e., king, or more appropriately, emperor) theory of government. He commands and they obey. He is not bound by the law; he is the law.

Shame on them. They deserve exactly what will be coming their way. America is no longer with Bush, and neither will it support those who aid and abet his lawbreaking.