Latest Outrage

Led by the oh-so-vulnerable Mike DeWine, a group of "moderate" GOP senators has proposed legislation that would legalize the President's domestic spying program, four years after it was secretly--and unlawfully--created.

I have long maintained that the unarticulated major premise of the Republican Party is that the American people are stupid. If further proof is needed, this latest outrage will stand as Exhibit A. Do these people really think that they can pretend that four years of illegal conduct can be swept under the rug and forgotten? More to the point, have they no respect for our Constitution and the system of government--remember those checks-and-balances you learned in grade school?--that it created? Have they no pride in being members of Congress, elected by their constituents for some purpose other than being wined and dined by lobbyists? Have they, in the end, no self-resepect? And, perhaps most important for a politician who must always be concerned with his/her survival, do they really think they can get away with this, in an election year, with a president who's polls are in the bunker (down there with Dick Cheney), and avoid public ridicule?

As I said, they think we're stupid.