ORIN KERR on the new FISA amendment.

Some people are unhappy with the bill’s Democratic supporters.

UPDATE: More on the Democrats here. “When push comes to shove, especially on war-related issues, the Democrats have failed almost every time to fulfill their campaign promises. The FISA legislation should enrage the Democratic base. . . . The new majority has proven a little too difficult to manage, especially for Nancy Pelosi. The Blue Dogs have actually made the party less reliably Leftist.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Jack Balkin: “The passage of the new FISA bill by the Senate and now the House demonstrates that the Democrats stand neither for defending civil liberties nor for checking executive power. They stand for nothing at all. . . . I hope the Democrats are justly proud of themselves for their cowardly contributions to this slow-motion destruction of our constitutional system.” I guess they’re enraged, all right.

MORE: Tom Maguire comments:

Let me add my own twist – while Dems were busy playing up to the Kos Kidz in Chicago, back in Washington the House Dems were collapsing before the imagined wrath of George Bush on the new legislation modifying FISA (described by Orin Kerr).

Was Nancy Pelosi really that concerned that Bush would rally the full force of the 29% who still approve of the job he is doing? Maybe!

But I’ll bet she was worried that Rush Limbaugh and the right wing talk machine would have chewed on Democrats about this issue all through the August recess – immigration is over, so what were they going to rant about?

Shouldn’t she also have been worried about being chewed on by the “netroots” if she cravenly gave in to Bush? Evidently, she was more worried about Rush – go figure.

Who has a bigger audience?