The New York Times Gets It

I am often hard on the Times, but today they have one hell of a Op-Ed. It starts with a bang:

Every now and then, we are tempted to double-check that the Democrats actually won control of Congress last year. It was particularly hard to tell this week. Democratic leaders were cowed, once again, by propaganda from the White House and failed, once again, to modernize the law on electronic spying in a way that permits robust intelligence gathering on terrorists without undermining the Constitution.

It just gets better and better. Read the whole thing.