All The King's Men

It kills me that this passed. (Check here to see if YOUR sen­a­tors are to thank for this.) FISA has been both­er­ing me for a while, but I thought it would die.

Not only did we expand the fed­eral government’s abil­ity to watch over our col­lec­tive shoul­ders with­out warn­ing or cause, but we retroac­tively par­doned the tele­coms for allow­ing the gov­ern­ment to do so before it was legal. (Which, if you fol­lowed that last link, you’d know Bush said the immu­nity was more impor­tant than the expanded pow­ers. Why? He’s already been using them, but now we’ll never have our proof!)

Oh, and on a bit of a Bush legal­i­ties tan­gent… Con­gress has passed Bush’s bill par­don­ing his entire admin­is­tra­tion for any war crimes against Guan­tanamo detainees.

You can put a big ol’ check-​mark next to Step 10. Make no mis­take, we are tee­ter­ing on a rain-​slick precipice of dark­ness. And both of the major par­ties’ 2008 Pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates are try­ing to push us into the abyss. I’m def­i­nitely rethink­ing my vote for Obama now.

Arg! Where is my Guy Fawkes mask?

Tags: Bush, Dinhternet, Obama