Who's There?

The Senate's decision yesterday to expand the government’s spy powers and give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program is awful, eggregious at best.

What I find even more disheartening is the Democrats' inability to stand up to this Bush Administration and tell it "NO! We will not do as you say! We will not spy on Americans without a proper court order, and those who do will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!" And, that includes AT&T, and Verizon, the two mega mobile phone companies at the heart of this controversy.

I'm beginning to think that Democrats "really" want this spy program. I'm beginning to think they see it as a possibility for their own use, should they regain power in 2009. I'm not sure that the program hasn't helped the Bush Administration, so it would make sense that the Dems would also like to use it. I also think that Dems are still fighting the stigma of being weak in the war on terror, especially heading into the 2008 general elections against McCain. Whatever the case, shame on the Dems for not standing up for our rights.