F**d this!

By Creature

This is what happens to a president when their approval ratings scrape bottom. From the Associated Press:

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday he is considering legislation to cut off funding for the Bush administration's secret domestic wiretapping program until he gets satisfactory answers about it from the White House.

"Institutionally, the presidency is walking all over Congress at the moment," Specter, R-Pa., told the panel. "If we are to maintain our institutional prerogative, that may be the only way we can do it."

Specter said he had informed President Bush about his intention and that he has attracted several potential co-sponsors. He said he's become increasingly frustrated in trying to elicit information about the program from senior White House official.

The amendment amounted to a warning to the White House from a powerful but frustrated Senate chairman.

Sounds good, right? But wait, if this amendment were to reach the floor, how would Specter vote?

"I'm not prepared to vote for it myself," Specter told reporters.

Huh? It's all game of smoke and mirrors for these guys. While I'm glad Specter spoke up (if you can call it that), and that he is trying to hold the president's feet to the fire, it's all talk and no spine. Specter should be screaming about the overreaching-illegality of the program. A program that should have been shut down from the start.

And while we are at it, let's stop calling it a program. It's not a program, it's a criminal act.

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*Just in case. Just FYI. The F**d in F**d this! is Fund. Get it, Specter wants to cut off funding... oh never mind.

(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)