Are The Blue Dogs Yellow?

If Al Queda is in your favorite five now would be a good time to call them. With House Dems holding their ground on FISA, the Protect America Act of 1984 expired at midnight. The Prez. Has told us we are now vulnerable to the “enemy” and our intelligence services don't have the "tools” to protect us. We're supposed to depend on that tool to protect us? This is all a load of crap since FISA itself has been and still is in effect.

I don't know what's worse, the hefty amount of false acrimony from the GOP or the pliable Blue Dog contingent of House Dems. The Republicans, well I can understand their hapless obstructionism in the FISA follies. Are there Democratic House members actually petrified by the lame threats from the President? Are they that afraid of a thirty second spot accusing them of being soft on terrorism? Is amnesty for telcos that important that it requires crossing party lines and refusing to debate the Senate version of the FISA update?

The EFF website has been doing a great job at covering the FISA stuff if you're interested.