Wiretapgate isn’t getting any better for the administration of President George W. Bush, as more members of Congress have begun calling for hearings. The only supporter of the president quoted in papers seems to be U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., who’s filling in for indicted U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay as majority leader and thus inherits DeLay’s obligation to be an asshole.

“I am personally comfortable with what I know about it,” Blunt said. Well, so long as we have the Republican acting majority leader, the Republican-appointed attorney general and the Republican White House counsel giving their blessing to a Republican president’s subversion of the Constitution, everything is fine.

Who’s not personally comfortable with Bush’s order allowing the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on American citizens without warrants? U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson, who sat on the super-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and who resigned his lifetime appointment, reportedly in protest of the Bush program.

Robertson knows what we all know by now: The law gives authorities the ability to act quickly in emergencies, tapping phones for up to three days before finally sending a lawyer before the secret court to get a retroactive warrant. And most every request for a warrant that comes before that court is granted. To not want to even bother with that procedure tells us that the administration and the NSA were up to a whole lot of no good.

Oh, and another thing, from the Los Angeles Times. It seems that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said the administration had talked with members of Congress about reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but decided against it because there weren’t enough votes.

“We were advised that … that was not something we could likely get,” Gonzalez said in the Times.

So, if you can’t get permission to change the law, why not just go ahead and do it anyway? It’s reasoning that only a moral relativist like Bush and other members of his administration could love. (Don’t forget that seeking to amend the law is a de facto admission that it currently bars, or could be seen to bar, the conduct at issue.)

And speaking of moral relativism, here’s a little gem for all you people who think that Bush didn’t really lie, but was simply snookered by bad intelligence. Author James Bamford, writing in the Dec. 1 issue of Rolling Stone, reports about the curious practices of John Rendon, a self-described “perception manager” who uses public relations skills to help topple governments and start wars.

Bamford traces the story of one Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, an Iraqi defector who told some tall tales about weapons of mass destruction buried all over Iraq. His story was used to sell the war, most specifically in a news story written in the New York Times by the now-discredited Judith Miller. The report was cited by the administration, and even placed on the White House website.

The only problem? A CIA polygraph expert had determined on Dec. 17, 2001, that al-Haideri was lying.

And the administration knew it.

Before Miller’s story was engineered by Rendon. Before the administration cited him as a credible source for pre-war justification of an invasion of Iraq.

Why? Because this war could not possibly be sold on any rational basis, and so, in the absence of reason, one must turn to lies, elaborately concocted by PR experts like Rendon, whose firm has made millions on Defense Department contracts connected to wars from Panama to the Persian Gulf.

Oh, Bush lied all right. And the lies continue to this day.

Intelligence design is a “breathtaking inanity”? So says Pennsylvania-based U.S. District Court Judge John Jones III, in his ruling in a December 2004 lawsuit brought against the Dover Area Unified School District, which inserted a mention of intelligent design into science curriculum.

Well, we have just two words for you, Judge Jones: Vanessa Marcil.

Do you really expect us to believe that Marcil, who starred in shows like General Hospital, Beverly Hills 90210 and the current NBC hit Las Vegas was just some kind of cosmic accident? Can you really sit there in your black robes and tell us that the woman whom Prince selected to star in the video of his song “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” is the product of a chain of evolution?

Please. That’s just ridiculous.

Oh, and we’ve got more. Cindy Crawford, for example. She’d clearly make Charles Darwin rethink his The Origin of Species in a heartbeat.

And the list goes on. How about Jessica Alba? Or Eliza Dushku? Sure, Tru Calling was cancelled, but we never argued that intelligent design applied to network programming decisions. (Besides, it was probably Jason Priestly who dragged that show down anyway.)

We don’t care how long you took to craft your 139-page decision, Judge Jones, we are not going to believe, for even a minute, that Diane Lane, Eva Longoria or Uma Thurman simply evolved. Sorry, but, like Hall & Oates, we can’t go for that. No. No can do.

What’s that you say? What about Carrot Top?

OK, well you’ve got us there.

But still, all you’ve really proven is deevolution. You still haven’t proven evolution.

And we’ve got Vanessa on our side on this one.