You F-ing Cowards!

Democrats cave in to Bush’s demands, continue raping civil liberties.

My favorite part:

Democratic leaders there were working on a plan to bring up the Senate-passed measure and vote on it Saturday in response to Bush’s demand that Congress give him expanded powers before leaving for vacation this weekend.

Oh, no, the President has threatened to veto our bill, what do we do?? Guess there’s nothing left to do but bend over and take it up the can!! Thank you, Mr. President, can I have another??

How about you grown a goddamn pair and tell him to stuff his veto pen where the sun doesn’t shine!!

I mean, who is under the most pressure here? A court had ruled the existing program Unconstitutional, so continuing it without Congressional approval would be in violation of a lawful court judgment. Democrats should have told Bush to take it or leave it—dare him to veto a bill protecting the civil liberties of Americans. Why is a Democrat Congress afraid of a man whose approval rating is lower than the average number of points the Indianapolis Colts put up during the regular season last year??

This just really pisses me off. Do either of these political parties stand on anything resembling principles any more? First Republicans abandoned anything resembling fiscal responsibility, now Democrats abandon civil liberties. What a joke.  Watch for more updates as the President seeks to expand the next version of the bill to provide corporate immunity for anyone that helped with illegal surveillance.  Unreal.