The House will vote shortly on Bush's FISA Bill.
Word is that the House will cave in just like the Senate, but it ain't over till it's over.
Contact Your Representative NOW!
Just for a reference you may wish to read our Constitution. I wonder how many of our Congressman have read it and understand it.
Voting for this Bill , gives "approval" to Bush's impeachable offenses. Even if it needs to be re-authorized in six months.
Kagro X sums it up well here
Still, these are merely the surface issues. There's something deeper and even more troubling going on here. What's happening here is the ceding of the last remaining prerogatives of the legislative branch to the executive. We are currently watching the Congress cede its oversight authority -- not its ability to hold hearings, but its ability to make hearings mean something. We may be watching the Congress cede its "power of the purse," as George W. Bush now threatens to veto any appropriations bill that does not match the numbers in his budget. (You need to know that the president's budget has almost never been the working model for Congress. The traditional reaction to the president's budget, no matter whose it is or even who's reacting, has been that it's "dead on arrival.") Now we are watching the Congress cede even its legislative powers, reacting to Bush's threat to keep them in session until they pass the exact FISA legislation he demands.
As does Granny Doc
The Democrats in the US Senate are systematically getting rolled, once again, by veiled threats of terrorism, closed briefings about "traffic", and the implicit threat that if they don't give George Bush EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS, they will be targeted in the next election.