Let’s talk telecom immunity for a second.  The Dear Leader is stamping his widdle cowboy-booted feet and screaming that the telecom companies must be given immunity even though they colluded with the most corrupt administration in the history of the nation.  Our Unitary Executive^TM is also having a hissy fit because, if the law expires tomorrow, of course the terrorists will come for us.

Point 1 - it’s the fucking Bush administration - do you think for a second they’ll stop listening to our phone conversations and reading our emails just because some law expired?  Are you fucking kidding me?  Laws are so 9/10. 

Point 2 - the Dear Leader and the Dark Lord had been planning to spy on us without warrants long before 9/11.  The terror attacks on September 11th changed nothing. 

Warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens is often defended as a necessary security measure in a post-Sept. 11 world. But NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says the administration’s push for expanded surveillance powers actually began months before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Doesn’t that give you a warm feeling?  Call your representative and make sure telecom immunity gets killed in the House.  9/11 was no excuse to cooperate with the Bush administration, but helping them before we were attacked?  Get me a fucking pitchfork and a torch.

[TPM, and NPR via Agitprop]