Moonbat calls for the impeachment of Cheney and Bush are premised on alleged unconstitutional activities, like eavesdropping on terrorists calling their buddies in Afghanistan from a U.S. land line.

What are the chances that outrage by the liberal left is based on moral principle? I guess we'll find out soon enough.

The court left in place a federal appeals court ruling that Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., acted improperly in giving reporters access to a recording of a 1996 telephone call of Republican leaders discussing the House ethics case against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.

McDermott asked the justices to hear his appeal of the May ruling, which he said infringed on his free speech rights. The court did not comment on its action.

The decision upholds a previous court ruling ordering McDermott to pay House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, more than $800,000 for leaking the taped conversation. The figure includes $60,000 in damages and more than $800,000 in legal costs for Boehner, who filed suit against McDermott nearly a decade ago.

McDermott has created a legal defense fund to pay his expenses in the case. The exact amount he owes is the subject of a separate dispute being heard in federal court.

John and Alice Martin, two Democrats, just happened to be driving around Florida with a Radioshack police scanner and tape recorder when they heard a couple of voices they recognized in an intercepted cell phone conversation.

This was back in 1996 when cell phone were still analog. The conversation they were intercepting concerned an ethics investigation of then Speaker Newt Gingrich. The couple then went to see their local Representative, Karen Thurman, who took the tape, but returned it to them unlistened to and instructed them to deliver it to Jim McDermott, then a ranking member of the Ethics Committee. McDermott provided assurances of legal immunity to the Martins and sent the text of the conversation to several national newspapers in an effort to embarrass the Republicans.

A criminal investigation was launched, but the Clinton administration declined to pursue criminal charges, so John Boehner pursued Jim McDermott in civil court--and won.

The courts having ruled, it is clear that Jim McDermott is a scumbag with no respect for civil rights. By the very standard the Democrats have vocally applied to the Bush administration, McDermott should be expelled from the House.

Will Democrats uphold constitutional principles, or is their greivance against the Bush administration just another example of manufactured outrage by cynics and poor citizens?

I'd also like the names of everyone who contributed to McDermott's legal defense fund--we might as well out all the fascists in this little project.