[mburbank]

Personally, I think the NSA spying is a far bigger scandal, since it ivloves a sitting President admitting to a federal crime and insisting he intends to keep commiting them, but the Republicans don't agree with me.

And I don't know, Kev, handing a huge fat juicy bag of money deal that also has to do with the weakest point in our already sad homeland security operation without even consulting the President (who apparently couldn't care less anyway) to a country that doesn't recognize Israels right to exist might be the kind of play Congress ought to have been consulted about, and if they object, might not be worthy of the very first veto ever used by our President.

Do I think this is blown out of proportion. A little. Do I think it's an excellent example of the administration behaving like a monarchy and proving once again that they are not actually republicans. Do I trust W when he says the deal has been thoroughly vetted and it as safe as can be. Not even slightly. I imagine he knows next to nothing about it, and it might be safe OR it might be a huge corrupt swindle and fantastically dangerous.