The Legislature has again become invertebrate. These worms have bowed to politics over principle by allowing the AG to be the arbiter of privacy in this nation. Check and balances? Forget them. Oversight? Too much trouble. Stand up to the President/King? Too risky.

As we bleat our way forward we have only ourselves to blame for keeping our mouths shut.

Not yet, Chris Dodd put a hold on the bill and I hope Obama joins him.

I hope you're right. Yet I feel increasingly impatient with the Democrats. They seem terrified with offending anyone. Compromise is fine but standing up and defending the Constitution should be the bottom line.