Inside the Beltway "wisdom"

Glenn Greenwald hits the nail on the head:

For the Democrats in Congress and their apologists who are claiming that they had no political choice but to enact the FISA expansions, this claim is conclusively disproven again and again. The same people who fret that Democrats will be politically doomed if they take a stand for these positions -- for some limits on presidential surveillance and lawlessness and imprisonment powers -- have as impressive a track record as those who advocated the invasion of Iraq (and they are, more often than not, the same people).