Once a wimp, always a wimp

... or so the [more or less accurate] saying goes. I'm talking about the "Protect America Act." This act, enacted by a Democratic Congress & signed into law by a Republican President, legalizes the abrogation of our civil rights for a further six months. Bush and his cronies can continue to wiretap into phone calls made by Americans suspected (read "randomly picked on a hunch or prejudice") to be terrorists without a court warrant. The judge and jury on who needs to be wiretapped continues to be Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a partisan hack whose firing of Democrat leaning federal prosecutors has lost him the support of much of Congress.

Even though Nancy Pelosi voted against this act, she still brought it onto the floor of the house with the intention of it passing. Why? One can only assume that fear has once again ruled the day for Democrats and lest they be open to political attacks through their summer vacations, they just decided to mortgage our civil rights.

Ironically, this is the group of jokers that can't even wait for General Petraeus' progress report in September and is screaming from rooftops about opposing George Bush and pulling out our troops immediately. But when it comes to civil rights, they're perfectly content with polishing Georgie's shoes. Why? Oh, that's right, the political winds are blowing with them on the Iraq issue and while the public probably supports them on the wiretapping issue, it's probably better to be safe than sorry, right? After all, it's only civil liberties. Who cares? And the Democratic Congress wonders why it's approval rating is lower than that of George Bush.

You see, when Nancy Pelosi promised us "A New Direction" in November 2006, I didn't think she meant the same direction, but this time packaged in a bright blue color. How stupid am I?