Do it because I say so

No longer seems to work for Georgie and his cabal.

Bryan of Why Now? explains:

In his Saturday liar-side chat™, the Shrubbery complained that the surveillance law needs to keep up with technology. What he was probably looking for was cover for some of the illegal activities that the cheney-bots have been up to for years.

He apparently thought that Congress was going to rubber-stamp a law to help him, but what he got was a response from a veteran of political battles, John Conyers: Committee demanding details of NSA data-mining.

Gee, you mean governing actually means being accountable and explaining yourself to people? I think they haven't yet gotten the memo.

Sorghum Crow of Sorghum Crow's General Store detects a pattern.