CNN:

Senate GOP torpedoes proposed limits on Bush wiretaps
While refusing to give the president a blank check to prosecute the war on terrorism, Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee kept to the White House’s condition that a bill giving legal status to the surveillance program pass unamended. That’s not a sure thing on the Senate floor, where several amendments await the measure.

“Refusing to give a blank check?” Bush’s warrantless surveillance program involved over 30 felonies. Now the Republicans want to “legalize” all 30 of Bush’s felonies—retroactively.

What check is blanker than that?  Read more