Remember this from last week?

In a major shift of policy, the Justice Department, once known for taking down giant corporations, including the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years.

Now there's this:

This isn't good. At least, not for the FBI. But it makes me giggle:

Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.

There's been crankiness among rank-and-file Democrats about the party's inability -- now that it runs Congress -- to force some kind of withdrawal from Iraq, or to challenge the Bush Administration on some other important topics.