THE SUPREME COURT SLAPPED DOWN CONGRESS TOO, NOT JUST BUSH

Leading up to the 2006 elections, Bush and Rove knew it would be easy to get the rubber stamp Republicans and plenty of craven, cowardly Democrats to vote for the abysmal Military Commissions Act (S. 3930). And it was. This bill was at the heart of what the Supreme Court struck down today, lecturing both the unitary Executive and the rubber stamp Congress that they're not allowed to change the Constitution just because they want to.

Every single Republican in the U.S. Senate voted to pass this atrocious, viciously anti-constitutional piece of junk law... with two exceptions, Olympia Snowe (R-ME), who ducked the vote, and Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) who voted with 33 pro-Constitution Democrats. Some of the senators who voted for this were instantly sent packing by their constituents, namely George Allen (R-VA), Conrad Burns (R-MT), Mike DeWine (R-OH), Rick Santorum (R-PA), and Jim Talent (R-MO). Sometimes democracy works.

In November another batch of senatorial creatures who voted for this bill will face their constituents for the first time since that vote. One is John McCain, a key player in the passage of the bill, someone, in fact, still defending it and vowing to appoint judges like the 4 extremists who voted against the ruling yesterday. Other senators facing re-election who should be held accounatble for their bad judgment in the fall are:

Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Susan Collins (R-ME)
Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Ted Stevens (R-AK)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
Gordon Smith (R-OR)

If any of these senators work for you, fire them in November. The Senate would be a far better place if each and every one of them-- the Democrats as well as the Republicans-- were contemplating what they did wrong while looking for a new line of work.

In the House 160 Democrats voted against the bill ( H R 6166), along with 7 Republicans. Thirty-four Democrats disgraced themselves by voting with the GOP. You can look over the full list of the betrayers and defenders of the Constitution here. I'd like to single out some especially egregious members of Congress whose constituents should hold them in contempt and fire them:

John Barrow (D-GA)
Charlie Dent (R-PA)
Scott Garrett (R-NJ)
Mike Pence (R-IN)
Michael McCaul (R-TX)
Don Young (R-AK)
Dave Reichert (R-WA)
Melissa Bean (D-IL)
Jim Marshall (D-GA)
Randy Kuhl (R-NY)
Phil English (R-PA)
David Dreier (R-CA)
Mark Kirk (R-IL)
Mary Bono (R-CA)
Frank Wolf (R-VA)
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)
Dan Boren (D-OK)
Joe Knollenberg (R-MI)
the Diaz-Balart Brothers (R-FL)
Robin Hayes (R-NC)
Virgil Goode (R-VA)
Ken Calvert (R-CA)
Chris Shays (R-CT)
John Kline (R-MN)
Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV)
Thelma Drake (R-VA)
Patrick McHenry (R-NC)
Sam Graves (R-MO)
Mean Jean Schmidt (R-OH)
John Shadegg (R-AZ)

That's 30-- strictly bipartisan-- whose departures would make the House a far, far better place.