Oh, I’m not nearly smart enough to figure out which one would be most likely to do the deed, but I did go look at their pictures and, I gotta say, that’s one tough contest you’ve lined up for us, EW.

For purposes of finding real political cover on this, the WH needs to hide behind a Democrat, not a Republican. There’s no cover to be found by simply caving — they need a Democrat to stand up and declare it a bipartisan bill to protect the country.

Having a Dem provide cover would also go a long way toward dealing with this troublesome “fourth amendment” thing of which you speak.

I think Jim nailed it @13. DWS wants to be Teh New Rahm in the House, and sucking up to Teh Old Rahm is just the sort of thing she would do, thinking it will help her get to her goal.

so now we know why john conyers was making such a fuss last week, such a public fuss, about un-protecting “health” industry types from anti-trust.

and then there is his wife’s “troubles” coupled with whitehouse/doj blackmail, n’est pas.

but hey, look on the light side,

it’s halloween time – scary shows are to be expected.

michael hayden appears as a multi-disk computer storage device without hair.

dick cheney appears as lon cheney.

john conyers appears as uncle remus.

and george w. bush disappears.

what fun.

Issa.

I assume the pick has to be acceptable to the gop members. (And I kind of agree with Peterr, in if the WH mainly just wants to hide, a conservadem would be a better shield; this whole soft shoe number strikes me as some other kind of “see, I’m being bipartisan” signal.) The only thing I can quickly handicap against is how the SJC did it, and assuming a degree of strategic co-ordination between the houses. SJC sent R.M. Sessions, passing on the opportunity to nauseate Americans in numerous disparate venues that could have been even better exploited by sending Cornyn, Coburn, or [shudder] Kyl, making the kind of pro forma use-the-most-senior-as-spokesman move that seems to fly better in that chamber.

The House is more of a freewheelin’, loosey-goosey kind of place, so they might pass on the fluffing of R.M. Smith in order to stick one to the wavering Dem faithful. Since I seem to recall that King’s act has gone a bit overripe lately and several of the others EW declined to name might be hiding in plain sight from prosecutors or something, that leaves Darrell.

Ick.

Joe Lieberman, of course! What better sock puppet to have mouthing this crap?
He’s dying to be relevant again!

I vote for Issa.

BTW, I think even though this crap is unconstitutional, the toothpaste is outta the tube.

ISSA, and I agree, would prefer one from Possum Lodge. I will supply the duct tape.