Democrats to OK endless, warrantless wiretaps.

It has been painfully obvious for months that electing Democrats to power in Congress has changed, and will change, absolutely nothing. Continue the war in Iraq, in spite of seven in ten Americans demanding withdrawal? Check. Pass a six month legalization of an illegal and unconstitutional spying program? Check. Help the GOP pass a resolution condemning MoveOn.org for daring to suggest in a newspaper ad that a suck-up to the shrub might suck up to the shrub? Check and check.

And once again, Congressional Democrats are prepared to sacrifice the Constitution for the sake of illegal, warrantless wiretaps by the Bush-Cheney regime. Desperate to avoid appearing weak on national security, they have chosen to be weak on national security -- for the gravest threat to what used to be the United States of America is not al-Qaeda, but the Bush-Cheney regime. The political party we elected to power has proven time and time and time again that is is incapable of, and unwilling to, stand up to this regime and has instead chosen to be complicit in its crimes against us and against our Constitution. Nothing short of the 'r' word (I hesitate to type it out, lest I find myself disappeared to some CIA torture gulag) will free us from this tyranny.

When is refusal to compromise OK?

Is refusal to compromise OK when it's Harry Reid saying he won't allow further compromise over SCHIP funding, this after he allowed the House version of SCHIP to be compromised? If that's so, then why did Kos come down on Dennis Kucinich for refusing to compromise on SCHIP from the beginning?

Kucinich made a stand on funding SCHIP, and he wasn't going to accept having the bill he voted for gutted. For that, you skewered him. But now, after the shrub vetoes that gutted legislation, and after Harry Reid says he won't allow further cuts to SCHIP just to be able to say he got in a PR statement, you're holding him up on a pedestal. You can't have it both ways, Kos. I don't expect a retraction of your earlier smear job on Kucinich, but I would appreciate it if from now on you'd learn to be consistent in your condemnation of people who refuse to compromise.