Treachery

It appears the Republican Senators controlling the Senate Intelligence Committee have squashed any hope of meaningful investigation of the White House domestic spying program, under the guise of 'oversight".

Taste of Boot

That means no investigation of what Bush/Cheney has done so far, which only confirms my darkest suspicions. They were scared of this one, big time. That's why they twisted arms of potential GOP dissenters on the committee like never before.

Is there anyone left in America who would find it far-fetched to learn they spied on their political enemies? That they used it to win elections against Democrats?

After all, they beat the drum that this and that and everything inbetween that doesn't lick the boots on the party line is jeopardizing security, providing aid to the enemy, not supporting our troops.

Remember, this is Nixon II, as Donald Rumsfeld originally hired Dick Cheney to be his assistant back when he worked for Richard Nixon, back when Karl Rove got his start with the college Republicans, learning the tools of the trade from notorious election fixer Donald Segretti. These guys know how the dirty tricks work. It's their lore.

Cheney plays Nixon -- inaccessible, imperial, arrogant, remote control homicidal -- while Bush like every other guy in his family is the front man, the salesman, the shill.

Given that these shady characters are yet to be trusted, given that they went into their own DEFCON mode to stop any investigation of their law-breaking wiretapping, given that the key players got their start with convicted felons, would it be terribly surprising to learn that they had extended their illegal eavesdropping to, say, the Kerry campaign headquarters?

You tell me.