It's over and has been for more than year since Congress legalized torture. Did you think the Congress was going to stop illegal wiretaps and allow the phone companies to be held responsible by law? As Ray McGovern pointed out, Pelosi and the other Democrats were in on legalizing torture from the beginning and have been giving out retroactive immunity ever since. If Democrats really wanted a return to constitutional government, why haven't they even tried to repeal the MCA? The reason is plain as day: For all their protests to the contrary (just enough to get money from liberals online), they support torture and illegal wiretapping.

Benjamin Franklin said we'd have a republic as long as we chose to keep it, but once a people became corrupt, despotism was inevitable, since that's the only kind of government suitable for corrupted people. We chose not to keep it and it's been dead since MCA was passed. Once Congress legalizes wiretapping, can we at least give our dead republic a decent burial? It's starting to go putrid.

About time someone stood up for the rule of law. Chris Dodd 2008!

"And in the process -- for good measure -- they have ensured that there will never be any judicial ruling as to whether our Government and the telecom industry broke the law in how they spied on us for years without warrants." -Glenn Greenwald in this blog entry

I don't know where you've been for the last decade or so, but the courts are packed with Republitard judges. Don't bet the ranch on the courts doing the right thing. Besides, since when had the Cheney-Bush Junta obeyed the courts?

I'm glad to see someone do something to stop the Republitards from turning this country into Argentina in the 1970s.

If Mussolini was known as Il Duce, then Benito Ghouliani should be known as Il Douchebag. He and the other pro-torture Republitards remind me of the Major in The Ox-Bow Incident: The sadistic thrill they get out of torture and murder is that much greater when the victim is innocent, which is why they are so eager to adopt methods that guarantee innocent people are abducted, tortured and killed.

Looks like Republitards have decided to move away from stalking 12-year-old boys and are now trying to harass a grownup blogger.

I remember when Jesse Helms blocked Clinton's nominee for ambassador to Mexico, so why can't Dems do it to Mukasy? Aside from their cowardice, I mean.

What's with the "falsehood" nonsense? Joe Klein is a conscious, habitual LIAR who is egged on by his sleazy editors.

I have no love for Rockefeller or Harman or Pelosi, but isn't it likely that this story is a bullshit smokescreen to deflect attention away from the destruction of the torture tapes? The only source is Dubya's henchman, Porter Goss. I wonder if this isn't an attempt to dirty up the Dems and engage in a little tu quoque as well.

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Keep in mind that when you call, many Senate offices are on the lookout for Dirty Fucking Hippies, and they will ask what Zip Code you live in, or where in the state you live.

In the meantime, we should find candidates to challenge these cowards in the next primary.

If the Republitards want to make Dubya's illegal spying legal, why not make Nixon's illegal spying OK, too?

Ask them why they willingly and knowingly took part in this campaign to lie the nation into the Iraq War. They knew damn well that these plainclothes colonels were on the war wagon and here's the proof:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AchezOZsFiU

In this video clip from 2003, Gore Vidal calls out CNN and the other networks for using these Pentagon henchmen to gin up the war. So they knew all along and did it anyway.

I'd like to hear it.

http://daltonator.net/durandal/blog/?p=129

The new FISA law will allow Bush, Cheney and the rest of their perverts, criminals and thugs to read your e-mails and listen to your phone calls. And those of your family and friends. Supposedly, this is to stop “terrorists”, but given the large number of creeps, perverts and psychopaths working for the Cheney-Bush Junta, what assurance do you have that your kids’ e-mails and phone calls aren’t going to be passed around to the likes of Congressman Mark Foley, who was caught cyberstalking adolescent boys, of Jeff Gannon and who knows how many others just longing to grease up their palms and spread their Guckert all over your family’s privacy? None. In fact, it’s almost a certainty that your privacy will be sold or given away if it hasn’t already.

Call your senators and ask them to filibuster this abomination.

And the other Watergate felons while we're at it. It's not fair to let one gang of criminals off the hook when Nixon's henchmenn did time in prison.