Sen. Mike DeWine, said what?

I found this over at Think Progress.

The White House stated today that it is backing a legislative proposal by Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine to exclude Bush’s NSA wiretapping program from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. ThinkProgress has previously reported why the proposal is a bad idea. Tonight, on Fox News, DeWine himself explained his motivations behind the proposal:

"You know, there’s been some controversy about whether or not this program is legal or is not legal. I think we need to get beyond that. And the vast majority of American people believe these calls need to be listened to. But we don’t want to have any kind of debate about whether it’s constitutional or not constitutional. So I think we need to put that beyond us." Full post

Further reading.

Excuse me Senator but this is exactly the kind of thing we should be having a National debate about. That means Congress, the President, the Supreme Court and the American people. And to think, I would have had an opportunity to support a candidate who had a chance of defeating DeWine in Ohio - until this week.

How come we got treated to semen stains on Monica's dress for 3 months but we can't have a debate about the constitutionality of a government spy agency violating its charter by order of the President who was possibly abusing powers that possibly shouldn't have been granted to him in the first place? Oh, right. Semen is better television.