Never in my life, and I have lived a long time, have I witnessed to this degree such self-serving, corrupt, lying, pandering, destructive, completely unbelievable and dangerous American politicians. What in the hell are they doing to us? I do not care or accept any twisted political logic or reasoning being tossed around for justification. Afraid of loosing an election? Who cares? Yes, there may be casualties, but in the "everything matters" environment congress has created, casualties of congressional positions are the least they could sacrifice, given what is at stake. They have no problem in telling our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan there will be casualties, ultimate casualties, while they try to fix what Washington (In total!) has broken. If our troops should be expected to suffer casualties, then the democratic congress that helped put them in harm's way can suffer some of their own. Hardly a fair trade-off, but it's a start.

The current popular reasoning of the majority democratic congress to allow the constitutionally invalid FISA bill to slither through, with telecom immunity intact is nothing short of blatant cowardice and a dereliction of their sworn duty to protect and defend the constitution and the laws of the land. And most certainly not what Americans elected them  to achieve. Make no mistake, if the senate votes to pass this bill today, a very dangerous precedent will be set allowing future administrations to continue the abuses that have rocked America to it's core.