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?

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.