Can't these guys do anything right any more?

Their guy, Bushh, commits over 30 felonies during the warrantless surveillance program, and sure, they can refuse to hold hearings and do the usual Republican slime and defend, stonewall, cover up routine, but when it comes time to get firm, be strong, stand up, act like men and pass a little ol' enabling law that that makes illegal acts legal retroactively, they go all soft. Der Dëcider breaks a law, these guys need to figure out how to unbreak it for him. But they just can't. They get all confused. Pussies:

opping the to-do list is passing legislation officially sanctioning the National Security Agency's secret wiretapping of suspected terrorist communications. The eavesdropping has been carried out without warrants since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A federal judge in Detroit recently ruled the program illegal.

Republican leaders have planned to produce legislation by month's end that would give the administration as much latitude as possible to continue the program. But that effort may be splintering. The Senate Judiciary Committee will consider as many as four contradictory bills on the issue tomorrow and could approve all of them. That would leave it to Senate leaders and the White House to sort out how to proceed.

That dull thud you heard was the sound of Republican "leaders" punting the issue.

Of course, being authoritarians, they'll still try to hand our Fourth Amendment rights over to Bush (who will hand them over the shift supervisors at the NSA).

And it doesn't matter what these guys do in the Congress anyhow, because they'll just rewrite it all in secret in conference commmittee anyhow, no doubt turning to industry lobbyists wheneve they get stick for a word.

And it doesn't matter what these guys do in the conference committees, becuase if Bush doesn't like a law, he just issues a signing statement to override it.

That's the legislative process under the criminal Bush regime.

But still, isn't it fun to watch the Republicans squirm?

NOTE Hey guys, here's a suggestion. Why don't you postpone completely gutting the Constitution until after the midterms?