Posted on 09/08/2006 8:24:26 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
A little drama is also unfolding in Washington over the National Security Agency's wiretap program. Careful attention to this drama clearly shows that Democrats are much more consumed by their hatred of George Bush, and their desire to return to power inside the Beltway, than they are over the threat of future Islamic terrorist attacks on our country.
There is a proposal to take the 29 lawsuits that now exist against the wiretap program and have the FISA court (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) decide whether the wiretaps were legal or not. Now this sounds like a reasonable approach, does it not? The lawsuits, filed by Democrats and leftist groups, claim that the wiretaps were illegal. They file 29 different lawsuits. Here comes a proposal to take all 29 fact situations and present them to a duly constituted court, as well as to the Justice Department, to see if they pass muster .... and the Democrats say no.
Why do Democrats oppose this proposal? Because they're afraid. They're afraid that the FISA Court might actually rule that the wiretaps were absolutely legal in the first place, that no law was broken. To the Democrats it is more important to carry on their demonization of George Bush than it is to join with the rest of this country in fighting Islamic fascism and protecting our homeland. The return to power in Congress and the White House is Democrat job number one. We're left to wonder where on that list they've place the defense of our country and the safety of our citizens from Islamic terrorist attack.
Yesterday ...after the Democrats succeeded in turning aside Arlen Specter's proposal to submit the 29 lawsuits to the Justice Department and the FISA court, Democrat Senate Leader Harry Reid, standing alongside Hillary Clinton, actually stood before a press conference and said that it is the Republicans who are playing politics with national security.
The Democrats don't want a court to review the 29 wiretap lawsuits because they're afraid that the courts will side with the president, and its the Republicans who are playing politics with national security. Who's writing this stuff for them, Larry the Cable Guy?
Then the 2008 Democrat presidential candidate makes here appearance ... none other than Hillary Clinton herself! Hillary is there to present the great Democrat six-point plan for defending America.
Here are the six points. My sarcastic comments follow in italics:
Then, after announcing their wonderful six-point plan, the Democrats actually made the point that their plan was based on more than a year of ... now, get this .... more than a year of consistent national polling data!
Can you believe that? Here we have a political party that is actually admitting that it is basing its plan to defend the United States from Islamic fascism on .... polling data!
Now maybe it's just me, but wouldn't it be a better idea to base your strategy for defending America on a careful and analytical assessment of the nature of the threat, the strength of those who threaten us, and their ability to carry those threats forward? Well, not to the Democrats! They use polling data as the basis for their strategic defense planning!
Are they kidding us? Is this what the Democrats mean by the sixth plank in their plan for enhancing our national security? Their promise of more congressional oversight of intelligence must mean that they're going to pay closer attention to the polls!
Oh ... I feel so much safer already.
I'm ready for democrat protection. Please forward condoms to my local P.O. Addy.
BTW, do you guy's stand for anything else I wonder?
The Dems are bound and determined to make the GWOT into another Vietnam by any means possible so as to bring back their heyday (the 60s); and if that means "letting the politicians micromanage the war", so be it.
The Democratic Party must be defeated in detail.
Bingo! Someone gets it!
You are on a roll with great posts tonight Lando!
I have the perfect solution to Democrats proposals for national security.
Making their leadership subject to Operation Phoenix type operations.
Today's Democrats seem only bent on "protecting the country" from Republicans. Everything else is out the window.
NOT!!!
Damn, ya beat me to it.
My buddy Boortz smacks 'em again! LOL
Polls that manufacture the desired answer.
I pray the RNC will plaster that fact before the American people many times in October and November.
OH C'mon, Protect us with what? No WMD's? Halliburton? Where's Bin Laden? Rove is evil?
I really and truly hate these people. I know hate is wrong but enough is enough for me. I hate the left with all my being.
The answer is probably somewhere in the middle...
Some Democrats I'm sure DO value a strong defense. The problem is, they've been snowed by the ones who DON'T, namely, the ones in Washington DC.
No, they're not.
---Some Democrats I'm sure DO value a strong defense.---
Which ones exactly?
Zell Miller :)
Next.....
Toby Keith....
As I said, it's NOT the politicians I'm talking about.
I'm talking about non-politicians who tend to vote the Rats in because the Rats talked a good game.
No, Neil. They want more access to intelligence so they can peek and leak. Helping the enemy is Democrat priority no.1. They pray for another attack so they can blame Bush and hope it gets them back into office. That is all that matters.
Just like the terrorists, they are despicable people.
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