Bush is threatening to veto any FISA bill unless it includes immunity for the telecom companies that broke the law because he asked them to. You know, those loyal companies that will break the law on wiretapping, but only so long as they get paid.
We used to live in a country of laws, where everybody, including the men sitting in the Oval Office, had to follow the law. One president lost his job because he was unclear on that concept.
But now we have a president who not only doesn't think that he has to follow the law, he thinks that as long as he tells other people they can break the law, they can do so with impunity. That is so wrong that it is not even wrong. We elected a president, not a dictator, not a king.
We need to schedule the Democratic leadership in the Congress for emergency surgery to implant spines in those currently worthless fucks.
The president is not above the law and the Democrats had better get a clue on this. So had the Republicans, for the powers that they have so willingly ceded to this president will be wielded by the next president. Who may be a Democrat. And who may have no compunction about using wiretaps against his or her enemies.
And then, when the Republicans complain, their complaints will ring as hollow as a tin bell.
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