Worse than the vote, I think, was the rationale offered in the debate; I just can't imagine wanting some of what was said today to be memorialized in the Congressional Record, for all time.

I'm still struggling to understand how this happened, and wondering how on earth it will ever be set right.  When did we become so afraid and so easily manipulated that these people actually think that it is better to pass a bad bill than no bill at all?  Did the Dems not ponder the meaning of Bush being happy about this bill?  When Bush is happy about a bill, even my dogs know it's not a good thing.

And in the midst of it all, there was Obama, grinning at Jay Rockefeller's reference to the next president fixing everything.  Grinning.  In the middle of selling out the Fourth Amendment, Obama can grin because he just so wants to be president, and that is just ever so exciting...wheeee!...really now, that's about as puerile and inappropriate as it gets, isn't it?