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I am so discouraged by the shameless displays of childishness and dishonesty and just plain hatefulness in some cases that I see in Washington that it is hard to believe that many of them are thinking about the American people or the future well-being of our country at all.

If my theory did happen to be true, would that reflect poorly on Congress for forcing Bush into the predicament, or on Bush for opting to subtly erode one of our liberties for the greater purpose of security? I'd tend to place the blame on Congress, but knowing President Bush he would take full responsibility for signing CFR. I would certainly hope so, anyway.

They are all accountable for their part. In some issues there may be no real right or wrong answers, just differing points of view, but these aren't the issues that are generally the ones that are critical to our survival or prosperity. There are other issues where there are clearly right and wrong answers and I think that those who know that what they're doing is wrong and do it anyway are more accountable than those who do wrong believing that they are doing the right thing. I don't really know where this issue would fit within that framework.