Vichy Democrats want to extend Bush's wiretap fascism

The Democrats must like losing elections.

When the story of Bush's eavesdropping scandal emerged, I thought he'd be impeached over it - because it's sort of like, uh, illegal, ya see. But who was I kidding? The Democrats in Congress are useless. They're the same wusses who won't repeal the 1996 telcom law, so why should we expect them to do anything but sit on their asses while they bleed voters?

Today's Democrats are...Republicans.

This past summer, right-wing congressional Democrats collapsed over their miserable selves to pass legislation to expand the Bush regime's wiretap powers. Some of the telephone conversations monitored were in fact strictly international: They were placed outside the U.S. to parties that were also outside the U.S. - but Bush monitored them anyway.

The morons in Congress actually passed this bill, and Little Idiot signed it into law. (Republican shitbag Dan Lungren was quoted as favoring the new law, naturally. If I remember correctly, Lungren tried to have someone thrown in prison a while back for wearing an anti-DARE shirt. So Lungren isn't exactly pro-American, seeing how he's against the Constitution and all.)

A contributor to Daily Kos said that when the Democrats caved to Bush, "Karl Rove was handed the last tool he needed to craft his 'permanent Republican majority.'"

Now the Vichy Democrats who people Congress want to extend Bush's wiretap powers - again! This after they said they'd reduce Bush's eavesdropping powers. The latest DLC bill would expand for several years the powers that the recent law temporarily granted to Bush. A Senate version of this proposal would retroactively change the law to give immunity to Nazi telcom companies that illegally conspired with Bush.

What the fuck's the point in supporting the Democrats any more? Granted, the GOPstapo is worse, but that's about the only reason. There needs to be a whole new party to run a candidate in every damn district next year. I was about ready to assume the Democrats were going to win next year after Bush's SCHIP veto. They could have run with the ball on that, but nope, the DLC ran its mouth again.

(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/washington/01nsa.html;
http://bluespotblog.com/2007/08/house-oks-wider-wiretap-powers.html;
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20126385;
http://nevdem.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/5/184037/2270; http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/washington/09nsa.html)