 First we take America, then Iraq
According to CNET, the US Justice Department is giving the full Jack Abramoff to a bill sponsored by Sen Mike DeWine requiring all ISPs to build a dedicated info-structure for government eavesdropping. If this passes, yours, mine, and everybody’s Web surfing will be fair and legal game for Big Blowhard to peruse.
What are its chances? 2006 is another election year soon to be tainted by Karl Rove’s with-us-or-against-us strategy. If he has his way by this fall, legislators who don’t support the Bush Adm’n’s newest national security measures may as well show up at campaign events wearing a kaffiye. Because it’s not about the Constitution, or civil rights, or the land of the free and the home of the brave – it’s about politics and winning.
FACT: The current FISA law provides more than adequate access to anyone’s deep dark secrets, digital and otherwise.
FUN FACT: With so many of his homies under investigation, Sen DeWine is the titular head of the most corrupt Republican political machine in the country.
FUNNIER FACT: Washingtonienne, Jessica Cutler (Caution: nasty-bits alert), posted her X-RATED blog from her computer in DeWine’s senate office.
SELF-SERVING PSA: This is reason number one why the NH presidential primary is essential to preserving our democratic traditions. Would-be presidents can run from the tough questions, but in a state this small, they can’t hide. 
~Jack McEnany
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