Congress to pass Bush bills and run

With a week to go before the do-nothing Congress recesses for yet another six week break to go out and campaign, they plan to basically do nothing but legalize Bush's illegal conduct. Lobbyist reform? Forget it, it's corruption as usual. Immigration, energy needs, economic issues, even war spending is off the table. The only bills likely to pass are those authorizing torture, authorizing warrantless spying on Americans and throwing more money into that hotbed of political cronyism, the DHS.

The Republicans will try to spin this as the fault of obstructionist Democrats but that's patently absurd when they hold the majority in both branches of the Congress. Only ones to likely to buy that are the hard core White House supporters that still erroneously believe Saddam had something to do with 9/11. We can only hope those folks are so confused by cognitive dissonance at this point that they just stay home in November.