Yet another reason to loath politicians...

So, as many of you know, Congress recently changed its tune and passed a bill granting immunity to telecoms that turn over customer data to the federal agents without warrants. In March of this year, Congress (in a far too rare show of spine/respect for the Constitution) 220 Dems voted against telecom amnesty as embodied in the Whitehouse's spy bill. This week, 94 of them voted to approve the functionally identical bill.

Maplight.org done a bit of digging and discovered that between March of this year and June, those who switched their votes received on average 40% more in contributions from telecom interests than those who did not switch their positions. See also, here, here and ranting geeks here. Personally, I think the Fourth Amendment is a fair bit more important than the Second (which did quite well this past week)...but what do I know...