a country's soul that reads post no bills

I hear many people complaining these days about the state of politics in our country. Never fear, boys and girls, for democracy is alive and well in America!! That's right, we have no reason to worry when our altruistic and trustworthy elected representatives hold secret, clandestine meetings to discuss bills about spying on their own constituents. That's always been my favorite part of the Constitution, the section that talks about how the government is to be held completely unaccountable for its actions and should violate the civil liberties of its citizens as frequently as possible.

On a serious note, let's hope the Democrats grow a backbone for this new bill and maybe they can fix some of the damage that's been done by all the unconstitutional, warrantless surveillance that has been going on. Naturally, Bush has promised to veto any bill that would curb his surveillance powers at home. After all, why in the world would he want to give up some power for the sake of something as unimportant as freedom and liberty?

Edit: Did you also know the U.S. can and does search and download the data from any laptop entering the country? Fantastic. Apparently that whole needing a search warrant thing doesn't apply to your laptop in an airport.