Political Bloviation

Bush Warns House on Surveillance - New York Times
With the House moving toward a vote on electronic surveillance legislation that the White House has said falls far short of its requirements, President Bush warned legislators strongly Thursday morning against passing what he called “a partisan bill that will undermine American security.”
There is no issue affecting [...]

Compromise? Does that translate into Democrats fainting, then signing whatever stupid fucking bill Bush wants?

Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » FISA: President Specious Opens Yap, Petulantly Stamps Foot…Again

Senate caves, votes to give telecoms retroactive immunity
In an all to common display of craven gutlessness the Senate once again rolled over and gave the White House what it wanted like a prison punk ass bitch. The only hope is that the House finds it’s balls in that other pair of pant in the laundry [...]

Christy over at FDL seems to like it (somewhat):
Firedoglake - Firedoglake weblog » FISA: GOP Blinks (Somewhat)…Let’s Get To Work
The go to guy on all things FISA, Glenn Greenwald isn’t a fan of it:
 The whole agreement seems designed to ensure that the GOP gets everything they want — that they are able to defeat all [...]

There’s a good round up of what happened over at C&L:
Crooks and Liars » Jay Rockefeller on FISA: Bush is committing Political terrorism: Cloture vote fails
Short story is that the GOP fell well short of their pathological attempt to play a national security issue for political advantage. The cloture vote in the Senate failed, so [...]

 Could it be? Is it possible? Did a member of the democratic leadership show some evidence of a spine? I’ll steal the graphic AmericaBlog used. I want to believe…
Reid Issues Ultimatum: More Time Or No Wiretaps - Politics on The Huffington Post
At a State of the Union preview speech today at the National Press Club, [...]

First we have this by way of Poltico.com:
Rockefeller predicts win in FISA fight over telecom immunity - The Crypt’s Blog - Politico.com
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) is predicting the Senate will grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies as Congress takes up reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and [...]

There’s a post on John Edwards ‘08 Blog actually calling for accountability from telcoms that spied on Americans without legal authorization. I think the real heart of the issue as little to do with AT&T and more to with policy makers trying to ensure their collective asses are covered. The telcoms can, and almost certainly [...]