Dems About to Cave, Nutroots About to go Apoplectic

Beautiful! Pelosi continues to be the single-most ineffectual Majority Leader in at least the last twenty-five years. Via Cap'n Ed at Hot Air:

To break an impasse over legislation overhauling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, House Democratic leaders are considering the option of taking up a Senate-passed FISA bill in stages, congressional sources said today. Under the plan, the House would vote separately on the first title of the bill, which authorizes surveillance activities, and then on the bill’s second title, which grants retroactive legal immunity to telecommunications companies that aided the Bush administration’s warrantless electronic surveillance activities. The two would be recombined, assuming passage of both titles.

In this way, Democratic leaders believe they can give an out to lawmakers opposed to the retroactive immunity provision. Republican leadership sources said their caucus would back such a plan because not only would it give Democratic leaders the out they need, it would provide a political win for the GOP. It remains to be seen if such a move will placate liberal Democrats who adamantly oppose giving in to the Bush administration on the immunity issue.

The Nutroots are not taking it well aswell they shouldn't. Just as we went insane when McCain pushed the shoddy shamnesty bill, we felt betrayed and made our voices heard thus smacking McCain and other GOP'ers back into reality. We essentially made the immigration issue a third rail and McCain has toed the line of late. Unfortunately for the Nutroots, they don't have talk radio and a cohesive grassroots movement to get themseves heard.

It's a fairly mild Saturday in March so people aren't paying much attention but once word gets out, the Nutroots will explode. While I understand it, I will sit here and chuckle to myself as the last, best chance to impede the War on Terror goes kaput.

Update: I forgot to add this little nugget: Mukasey gives Pelosi the finger on Bolten and Miers. Yeah, there's a ton of respect for Rep. Pelosi, isn't there?