Who's surprised, really?

Not me:

Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican and Democratic sources said yesterday.

The Senate intelligence committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow on a Democratic-sponsored motion to start an inquiry into the recently revealed program in which the National Security Agency eavesdrops on an undisclosed number of phone calls and e-mails involving U.S. residents without obtaining warrants from a secret court. Two committee Democrats said the panel -- made up of eight Republicans and seven Democrats -- was clearly leaning in favor of the motion last week but now is closely divided and possibly inclined against it.

Republicans covering up and supporting their own, especially in light of threats by Karl Rove. If anything, it shows the two party system fails when one of them runs everything and is more concerned with maintaining their majority than doing what's right.

If this cover up succeeds, I'd love to see it become a campaign issue this fall. And if Democrats do take control of Congress, I wonder which Bush scandal will get investigated first.