Hell, give 'em all immunity, into forever - why not?

The Democratic takeover of Congress appears to be ready once again to flex its muscles, this time to give in to Bush's demands for immunity to the telecommunication industry for their acquiescence to Bush demands to help him spy on Americans.

Hey, why not? The Dems gave blanket immunity to the administration itself when House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi said early on that "impeachment is off the table." Sure, let 'em slide, after all, they only trashed the Constitution, invaded a country under false pretenses, broke every treaty they could, blithely threw out Habeus Corpus and started torturing people like it was fun and games at a carnival dunking tank.

They're also letting the entire banking industry and the Wall Street hacks who profited off the sub prime loans off the hook, because, hey, it's only destroying our economy and sending us into possibly the worst recession in decades -- or worse. Let's just throw a little money at some people and say, "sorry." That should take care of it!

The pattern seems to be to not make anyone responsible for anything, at least if they might contribute to your party's political campaigns somewhere down the line.

So, while our fearless leaders are in such a giving mood, why not just give blanket immunity to all corporations who give or may give campaign donations, into infinity, for any potential wrong-doing? And of course, we must extend this blanket immunity to politicians, because without it, they just can't do their jobs! (Which is to do the bidding of said corporations.)

This way, there is no need for any more of these painful "debates" in Congress, where our "representatives" must wring their hands and verbalize concern for the people being crushed under the weight of a government gone mad. And then we can get back to the happy talk of "prosperity" and the economic tide "lifting all boats." Yeah!