CNN:

Senate GOP torpedoes proposed limits on Bush wiretaps
While refusing to give the president a blank check to prosecute the war on terrorism, Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee kept to the White House's condition that a bill giving legal status to the surveillance program pass unamended. That's not a sure thing on the Senate floor, where several amendments await the measure.

"Refusing to give a blank check?" Bush's warrantless surveillance program involved over 30 felonies. Now the Republicans want to "legalize" all 30 of Bush's felonies--retroactively.

What check is blanker than that?

Bush: "Yeah, I broke the law. Change it so I wouldn't have broken it, boys."

Congress: "Yes sir!"

So much for the "rule of law," eh?

Good thing this isn't about something important--like a blowjob.

NOTE The utterly essential Glenn Greenwald has a detailed and nuanced summary.