The dems have achieved yet another mobius reach-around, servicing the Republicans while the GOP fucks the rest of us:

Breaking months of acrimonious deadlock, House and Senate leaders from both parties have agreed to a bill that gives the nation’s spy agencies the power to turn a wide swath of domestic communication companies into intelligence-gathering operations, and that puts an end to court challenges to telecoms such as AT&T that aided the government’s secret, five-year warrantless wiretapping program.
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The deal marks a huge, though belated, victory for a lame-duck White House, which fought a pitched, hyperbolic battle to expand its legal wiretapping powers after being busted targeting Americans without warrants.
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The bill could be voted on as soon as Friday in the House, given its backing by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who in February organized a high-stakes showdown with the president over a substantially similar bill. The Senate would likely also quickly pass the bill, despite already vocal opposition from the ACLU, left-leaning bloggers, as well as Sens. Christopher Dodd (D-Connecticut) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont).

Do none of these assholes read the paper?

24%, bitchez!!!!

What part of EVERYONE HATES GEORGE BUSH don’t you understand?

Kudos, of course, to Dodd, Leahy and Feingold, but what in the name of Christ’s holy hamstring are Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid smoking?

It’s a gorgeous afternoon here and now I just want to scream FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK at the top of my lungs.

I think a few phone calls are in order. You know the drill.