So who's Bush spying on?

With the news today that the Supreme Soviet United States Senate decided to give Bush an ex post facto pass on that little domestic spying caper, one has to ask oneself two things:

First, is the republican Supreme Soviet Senate even capable of ensuring that the laws are faithfully executed? Dear Leader is violating the FISA Act - all the babble about Article II and Congressional Iraq 9/11 resolutions by, um, 'strict constructionists' notwithstanding.

Second, the Kremlin White House is really very concerned that there be no investigation into this. So what are they hiding? What did Dick "18%" Cheney have to say to the Senators, who are scrambling these days to get some daylight between themselves and Dear Leader, that got them to cave? The natural bootlickery of the right notwithstanding, this is puzzling to me.

Consider that this is the same bunch of people who hacked into Democratic computers in the capitol, who created terror alerts on the day John Kerry got the nomination (from material that was two years old), whose chief strategist, Karl Rove, plantd a bug in his own office to discredit an early opponent, who financed the smear boat veterans, and so on.

I'm willing to bet diamonds to donuts that some or most of that spying is directed at the political opposition, in the grand old tradition of Nixon and Watergate. We already know that the FBI is infiltrating anti-war groups, that the Pentagon is carrying out domestic surveillance on Quakers, and above all, as the very program demonstrates, and their record underlines, that these are people who don't flinch at a little law-breaking if they think they can get away with it.