To save our nation and our liberty, we must take the Congress and the President of the United States of America to court in our Judicial Branch for violating, distorting and defrauding our Constitution, with malice aforethought, if this bill is signed as is by the president. The only branch of government whose leadership still behaves as though we have a Constitution is the Judicial Branch. Perhaps the best approach is to directly challenge the mere existence of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in the first place. We tried compromising our Fourth Amendment protections in order to allow secret courts to okay secret domestic spying with FISA, and that compromise of several decades has now resulted in our Senate effectively repealing the Fourth Amendment altogether, without benefit of a Constitutional amendment process, by its actions today on Abe Lincoln's birthday, no less. Fine. We'll take back our Fourth Amendment in full, thank you very much, and get rid of unaccountable secret courts in this democracy. We must turn our attention and support to the ACLU, CCR, EFF, CREW and anyone else attempting to prosecute the knowing lawbreakers who are abusing their positions in our Senate and House to violate our rights and steal our nation's rule of law and its democratic legacy from those who died to preserve it for us.

Watch Nancy Pelosi now go to work in the House behind the backs of her caucus. Her handiwork will show up here, sooner or later, if Cheney, Reid, and Rockefeller get their way (again):

Http://www.rules.house.gov/

[The House Rules Committee meets on another matter at 5 p.m. ET today. Sudden developments today or tomorrow are to be expected in that committee on FISA. Too bad we don't have any actual citizens present in D.C. patrolling the halls and meeting rooms to record events and to question the actors who never seem to have to answer for their votes - votes and events the state media now refuse to describe in any meaningful way for the people of this nation.]

Barack Obama: Thank You. I know you knew your votes today would make no difference. I know you probably had no hand in the difficult negotiations that arrived at 1/31's pivotal Unanimous Consent Agreement. I know you made not the slightest effort to publicly promote this issue or to help Dodd and Feingold to put media pressure on your colleagues to do the right thing. I know you probably didn't even privately lobby the likes of Ben Nelson, one of your Senate endorsers, to change his vote so as to get the end result your own votes indicate you'd prefer. Nevertheless, thank you for showing up, exhausted as you probably are, and going on record repeatedly in the Senate this morning. Your actions prove to me that all Senators today understood what the right thing to do for the American people would be, and yet only 29 of them would do it, out of the 100 people we pay to represent all 300 million Americans, and to wield our power on our behalf.

Jim Webb, Sheldon Whitehouse, Kent Conrad, Dianne Feinstein, among others, including the dregs of the Democratic caucus: Unless and until you sincerely apologize to America for the votes you cast today to grant what Whitehouse himself clearly declared on the Senate floor to be "unConstitutional" votes to remove the check of the separation of powers from secret, Fourth Amendment-abusive domestic surveillance, including data collection from innocent Americans in America - a NAZI domestic surveillance-state dream come true - all your other efforts in our Senate will be a futile, laughable sham and fraud to me. Your flawed characters are now fully exposed for all to see - all your fine credentials, Webb and Whitehouse, notwithstanding. Sheldon Whitehouse, former US Attorney, former RI Attorney General - you damn well know better, and should have learned by now how to stand apart from the foolish popular clique to do the right thing, ridicule from the juvenile, airhead NSA-fangirl types like Barb Mikulski and your Senate Prince Rockefeller, notwithstanding.

Truly this doesn't match what so many of you allowed, and are still allowing, to be done to your fellow human beings in Iraq. Human beings most of whom have far less blood on their hands than you do. But it puts the final lie to any pretense that you were fooled or uninformed about the vote your Democratic Senate took in 2002 to take over Iraq, and have revoted many times since as the non-existent opposition that continuously funds the illegal mayhem, no matter how many innocent human lives you needlessly slaughter in the process.

Your Congress, Reid, Rockefeller, Webb, and Whitehouse, et al, will live in infamy, as the depraved institution it proved itself to be today, on vote after vote after vote after vote after vote.

At this hour, under discussion in the Rules Committee:

H.R. 5349 - To extend the Protect America Act of 2007 for 21 days

Meeting Time: 7:15pm Tuesday 2/12

The bill is hand-signed by John Conyers, Jr., Chair of the Judiciary Committee, on a document printed out at 4:26 p.m. ET, today, 2/12/08.

Rule results will likely be posted shortly after the meeting concludes, here:

http://www.rules.house.gov/

The 21 House Democrats who are ignorant of, or simply don't believe in our Constitution (including, no doubt, its Second Amendment), and who have therefore obediently signed a letter for Mitch McConnell to do as he orders on FISA, do not control the levers of power on FISA in the House. That power resides with the Speaker, if she chooses to use it.

This is a positive sign that Nancy Pelosi just might be starting to feel that it's about time she started to try to make amends for "impeachment is off the table."