Forgiving the Tresspasser

According to a recent Slate article, Congress has passed a law that grants retroactive immunity to companies that helped BushCo violate ours rights be handing over phone records to the NSA and so on without a warrant.

The incredible irony of this all was noted in the beginning of the article I mentioned, "And yet this enthusiasm for telecom immunity is a betrayal of a principle Republicans love to invoke in other contexts. "America is based on the rule of law, and that law must be enforced," Sen. Hutchison thundered during last year's immigration debate. The conservative arguments against forgiving illegal immigrants apply with equal force to the telecom industry, even if no one made them yesterday."

LOL. This is both amusing and slightly sickening. This fervor was directed at keep dem illeegals outta th' country, but never at preventing Bush from asking these companies to violate our rights. Moreover, this winter former General Attorney Ashcroft suggested that companies who were involved get a free pass, since their actions were "based upon explicit assurances from the highest levels of the government."

That this bill passed is amazing. That it passed with little comment even more so. It also gives me more reason to like Obama and to dislike Hillary:
Obama voted no.
Hillary skipped out in favor of stumping. Self-serving, as usual.