So much news gets lost in the relentless campaigning...

There's nothing I find more annoying than the relentless media focus on the Presidential campaigns -- the only saving grace being that the California primaries are over so I don't have to sit through any more of those idiotic ads. Among the items generally overlooked:
     o President Bush's disapproval rating is at 65 percent, only two points off the all-time record. You go, boy!
     o The House Democrats have developed a potential compromise on legislation allowing the government to tap our phones willy-nilly again: split the bill in two, one bill specifically on the issue of immunity for phone companies. That would allow liberal Democrats to vote against the immunity bill while supporting the overall legislation; and, since they will lose on immunity, allow the program to continue as the President wants. End result: an enormous amount of time wasted pulling together a sham vote designed to save face.
     o Futzing continues in an effort to bring the ethics panel reform back to the Floor of the House. It will probably take one more indictment to bring it over the top, but the ways things have been going, that shouldn't delay things very long.