What's a majority good for?

Well, this, among other things.

Today, Senator Carl Levin and Senator Arlen Specter received a letter that says the Justice Department would be using the FISA court to get approval for any domestic surveillance and that President Bush would not seek to extend the Terrorist Surveillance Program which had been passed by the Rubber-stamp Congress to allow him a fig leaf that he was spying on Americans legally.

Elections do have consequences. Sometimes good ones.