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You know who doesn’t normally have a lot of power? A dude actively disliked by over 60% of his supervisors.

Someone should really tell that to the idgit Democrats in Congress, though, who bluster about rights and justice and then bend over and stuff a poster tube in their ass to give the Republicans better access to the good stuff:

Under pressure from President George W. Bush, the House of Representatives has given final approval to changes in a terrorist surveillance program despite serious objections from many Democrats about the scope of the executive branch’s new eavesdropping power.

Ooooh, serious objections! I’m shitting my pants. I bet all those Republicans who *almost* didn’t get their way are still tossing and turning over those objections and their ramifications. If there’s one thing that puts fear into the hearts of facists everywhere, it’s a serious objection. Heck, Dick Cheney called me the other day because he heard I seriously objected to the war in Iraq, and he just wanted to make sure I knew my feelings were duly noted.

But this isn’t about Bush, really, is it? This is about the Democrats continuing to court a segment of society that will never, ever vote for them — the warmongers. Even the article above casually notes this simple and obvious truth:

The House Democratic leadership had severe reservations about the proposal, which explicitly authorizes government eavesdropping on e-mail messages and telephone calls originating overseas but routed through the United States, and an overwhelming majority of Democrats opposed it. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker, said the measure “does violence to the Constitution of the United States.”

But with the Senate already in recess, Democrats confronted the choice of allowing the administration’s bill to reach the floor and be approved mainly by Republicans or letting it die.

If it stalled, that would have left Democratic lawmakers, who have long been anxious about appearing weak on national security issues, facing an August fending off charges from Bush and Republicans that they left Americans exposed to terror threats.

Here’s a tip for Nancy Pelosi: if you think something does violence to the Constitution, and you go on record stating this fact, then you damn sure better make sure that almost nobody in that joke of a party you’re supposed to be running actually votes for it. Instead, 41 Dems voted for it, which was plenty for a majority (the only number that actually matters). That you couldn’t block your own group from passing a bill you felt that strongly about to appease an administration the rest of us feel THIS strongly about says an awful lot of bad things about you and your party, Nancy.

Dems gawk at the warmonger wingnuts like the Nice Guy looks at the deified object of his deepest affection. From afar, she looks perfect to him, and even though the Nice Guy doesn’t actually know her, or know a thing about her — including her habits, her dreams, what she thinks of *him* — and even though the Nice Guy refuses to acknowledge that she has warts — she farts, she’s a serial killer on the weekends, etc.– he knows that she’s the one for him. He thinks: “Grrr, but why won’t she notice me? I’m the one who did her math homework! I’m the one passing the terrorist surveillance bill! Look at me me me!” And like the Nice Guy, the Democrats’ obsession with their object continues to deepen, to manifest in ways that seem laughable to the rest of us but perfectly sane to the maniacal desires of the possessed.

If the Dems weren’t given a national mandate to stop bills like this, for what were they given a mandate? I feel confident it was not to suck the sweet tit of fascism.

Somebody please tell that to these 41 traitors:

Jason Altmire, John Barrow, Melissa Bean, Dan Boren, Leonard Boswell, Allen Boyd, Christopher Carney, Ben Chandler, Jim Cooper, Jim Costa, Bud Cramer, Henry Cuellar, Lincoln Davis, Artur Davis, Joe Donnelly, Chet Edwards, Brad Ellsworth, Bob Etheridge, Bart Gordon, Brian Higgins, Baron Hill, Nicholas Lampson, Daniel Lipinski, Jim Marshall, Jim Matheson, Mike McIntyre, Charles Melancon, Harry Mitchell, Collin Peterson, Earl Pomeroy, Ciro Rodriguez, Mike Ross, John Salazar, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Heath Shuler, Vic Snyder, Zachary Space, John Tanner, Gene Taylor, Timothy Walz, Charles Wilson