Spill DeWine

What a schmuck. He says, basically, "Fuck the Constitution. Fuck legality and illegality. Fuck right and wrong. Dear Leader creates His own morality, and we can only follow, awestruck, in His footsteps." Why do these Rethug assholes hate America?

Think Progress

The White House stated today that it is backing a legislative proposal by Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine to exclude Bush’s NSA wiretapping program from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. ThinkProgress has previously reported why the proposal is a bad idea. Tonight, on Fox News, DeWine himself explained his motivations behind the proposal:

You know, there’s been some controversy about whether or not this program is legal or is not legal. I think we need to get beyond that. And the vast majority of American people believe these calls need to be listened to. But we don’t want to have any kind of debate about whether it’s constitutional or not constitutional. So I think we need to put that beyond us.

The reason DeWine and the White House don’t want to talk about the program’s legality is because the program is illegal. DeWine is attempting to fix a problem that he hasn’t even properly diagnosed. Even Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter isn’t buying DeWine’s spin:

Unless they’re prepared to have a determination on constitutionality as to their programs, window dressing oversight will not be sufficient.

No amount of logical reasoning can penetrate the dense skulls of the True Believers. DeWine, who claims to be a Christian, actually worships another God (Dubya) on another mountaintop (Capitol Hill), like so many of his fucknut brethren in the GOP.

Beelzebub has a devil put aside for thee, Mikey.

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