..........where has all the "change" gone that we voted to have with this Congress?

Sure, and I would expect you to give me a good 'ole; "I told you so", for this one.

It should be obvious by now that oversight is something that the Democratic Congress never intended to do in the first place.

Last week it was "pretty certain" that House Democrats would quickly move forward with contempt citations against two Bush administration figures who were stonewalling Congress. Then the economy started circling the drain. (Because nobody could have anticipated the rape and pillage of our economy?)

The planned citations now appear to be on hold as Congress and the White House work on a bipartisan economic stimulus package, the central tenet of which involves cutting virtually everyone an $800 check. An $800 dollar bribe to the have-nots so that the "base can have permanent tax cuts.....sweet! But in the spirit of bipartisanship and just like a ginshui knife commercial there's even more! Congress will be more than willing to bend over on FISA.

When [Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid] tried to get a thirty-day extension to that date last month, Republicans blocked it. So this morning he said on the Senate floor that he’d try again. The time pressures are real, he said, and suggested that even if the Senate were to somehow pass a bill, it would be mighty difficult to get it through the House and to the president’s desk before February 1st. So - if we don't pass the law that Bush demands, and we fall back to the earlier FISA bill, the President will just ignore the law; and the Majority Leader will excuse him for it. It seems that impeaching the entire nadless Congress needs to be on the table.