With the elections and the newly Democratic congress about to be seated in a couple of months, it seems that the republicans are not so interested in fighting for Preznit Ima Diktator and his Imperial Agenda.

Republicans who limped back to Washington for a lame duck congressional session last week found a host of marching orders from President Bush, but perhaps none more urgent than this: Before Democrats take control of Congress in January, they must pass legislation authorizing the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program.
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...The response: deafening silence. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist quickly dispatched aides to put out the word on Bush's request: Not gonna happen.

The eavesdropping program, launched in secret after the 9/11 attacks, was revealed last December by the New York Times. The newspaper also reported that the government failed to get surveillance warrants from a secret court that monitors domestic spying. During the ensuing uproar, the president defended the program as targeting only domestic communications that originate overseas. His lawyers have argued that the president's executive wartime authority precludes his having to seek surveillance warrants. Says Todd Gaziano, director of the conservative Heritage Foundation's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies: "Every president has engaged in the equivalent of warrantless wiretapping and surveillance-the only difference is that this administration is being far more sensitive to civil liberties."(my emphasis)

It defies belief that the republicans and their cronys are still trying to spin the illegalities of the 1600 Crew. I suspect that as subpoenas come out, the number of shredders sold at office-supply stores will go up ... in fact, I'd be willing to be there's going to be a statistically significant correlation.

Chicken wings for that midnight shredding party, Mr. Secretary?