So much for the GOP making domestic spying a partisan political issue in the coming elections

Seems the Republican House Judiciary Committee chair is upset at the administration for not providing Congress sufficient information about Bush's illegal domestic spying program.

Well, that means that any attack the Republicans make on Democratic members of Congress who have concerns about the program, and concerns about not being given adequate oversight, have just been echoed by one of the most senior Republicans in the US House.

We call that an innoculation.

Any time Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove try to bring up the domestic spying issue in order to claim Democrats are weak on terror, Democrats need only respond with two words: Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI). Or with one word: Tex. (We call him "Tex" since his family is the heir to "Kotex" - they created it.)