Shameless Pandering...But Also, FISA

Update below
You may have noticed there's an adsense ad up on my blog today for Credo Mobile (yesterday it was Ann Coulter, go figure), which means their algorithms must work pretty good, since Credo, which used to be Working Assets, offers phone service with special appeal to political progressives. It gives 1% percent of profits to progressive causes and claims to have disbursed $50 million since 1985. More than I've given, for sure.
Anyway, I can't use Credo because I live in a black hole so cell phone is pointless most of the time.
But, here's something even better, signing up with Credo is being suggested by netroots denizens as a protest against AT&T and Verizon, the two companies who've spent millions lobbying for — and winning — retroactive immunity for their cooperation with illegal government wiretapping that we now know went back to Feb. 2001, long before 9/11.
We know that because it showed up several weeks ago in depositions in the lawsuit by the former CEO of QWest, who believes he was punished for refusing to cooperate.
In the meantime, 21 so-called Blue Dog Dems in the House sent a letter last week pledging to support the horrible surveillance bill that passed the Senate yesterday, which among other things, gives the telecoms the immunity they and Shrubya and the Dark Lord wanted to protect not only their corporate enablers but themselves from the 40 or so lawsuits out there by ordinary people and public advocates like the ACLU and the Electronic Freedom Foundation challenging the legality of what they did.
Retroactive immunity means those suits will be dismissed unless the whole thing lands before the Supremes, which Russ Feingold has said he believes will eventually happen.

Where was I? Oh, go to Credo's Web site for more info and consider this form of protest. If you choose it, write a nasty letter to your carrier and tell them why.

FISA Update 3:40 p.m.
Reuters reports that the House has rejected a three-week extension of the Protect America Act, a proposal from Senate Majority leader Harry Reid to forestall a total cave on the retroactive immunity issue in surveillance legislation.
Speculation is that the House will okay the horrible Senate bill passed on Tuesday.
If not, the whole thing expires on Saturday. It may be up to House leadership to stall with everything going back to Square One. The R's will accuse the D's of being soft on terror, but what else is new?
See Action Alert in right column for House petition.