I wish I had your confidence about that, but I don't.

Key Democrats in the House and Senate wanted this telcom immunity so badly that they didn't care how badly it pissed off the rest of us.  So they bided their time, trying to push the bill whenever they thought the hubbub had died down enough to let them try to sneak it through very quickly.  Eventually they will succeed.

This wouldn't happen if there weren't some powerful pressures inside the Democratic leadership behind the push for this immunity.  It's clearly not based on principles.  I doubt it's just telcom money either.  I don't know what it is.  But hopefully, someday we will know.

I just don't count on Obama to buck the Senate and House Democratic leadership on this telcom immunity thing.  I'm disappointed.

It's not so much that I want to see the telcoms prosecuted or sued.  I just want to find out the whole truth about what these dicks have been doing the past seven years.  The Dem majority has shown a surprising reluctance to use their subpoenas to find out that truth, and that seems to be part and parcel of the same problem.  Our best chance for discovering the truth was through civil lawsuits.  Take that off the table, and we may have to wait a long time before we find out everything they did.

But we will find out eventually.  There will be a Church Commission equivalent some time in the future.  I just don't count on the Party to do its job right now.

FOR ALL THAT -- let me add, Telcom immunity is not as big a deal as the war or state-sponsored torture.  Those are the two big issues that I need addressed.  If Obama reverses course on those, then there will be real hell to pay.  Compared ot that, though, this is the kind of real world ugly politics that you have to endure.  If we want to stop this, we will have to exercise pressure where we can, and at this point, it's probably best to exercise it by pummeling the Dem leadership and Congresspeople who voted for telcom immunity.