just to shut up her holler

Cripes. After all the bullshit and all the hoopla, this. So, what was the uproar really about? Was it really about civil liberties? Was it really about the most secretive administration since Nixon's? Don't mug yourself:

Mr. Roberts said "an agreement in principle" had been reached with the administration whereby lawmakers would be given more information on the surveillance operation run by the National Security Agency.

Ah. So it's about blowhard senators getting information, and not having their feelings hurt. What a load of shit this whole thing has been. Like Jay-Z say, sometimes you "gotta toss a coupla dollars, just to shut up her holla." I knew G-Dub was down with the Jiggaman.

See, the real issue here was always that the Senate felt like the Administrative branch was accumulating too much power. We learned in PoliSci that there is a constant ebb and flow of power between the executive and the legislature, and the Bush presidents have been particularly effective in accumlating executive power. Clinton benefitted from this, as will future presidents. The Senate realizes that they've really given this power away, and that their votes are coming back to haunt them. (Right, John Kerry?) So they pitch a huge fit about something to draw attention to themselves, and it runs for a few news cycles, then everyone realizes how idiotic the whole discussion really is. Remember when there was an alleged groundswell of support for the Murtha Exit Strategy (aka immediate withdrawl from Iraq)? And everyone obsessed about it for a week or so? And then the Senate actually voted on it, and nobody wanted to do it? Yeah, same thing here. Same thing with the Patriot Act (96-3, hippies. 96-3).

Don't get swept up in all the hot air rushing out of the Capitol these days. It's just more folks taking unfair swipes at Bush, like they do to J.J.

(That last link is from this HOT-ASS blog called.... wait for it.... ONLY DRINK HIGH LIFE. Shit. There really is a blog for everything.)