Posted on 09/13/2006 12:00:23 PM PDT by oxcart
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans blocked Democratic attempts to rein in President Bush's domestic wiretapping program today, endorsing a White House-supported bill that would give the controversial surveillance legal status.
Under pressure from the Bush administration for quick action, the full Senate could take up the measure next week.
Progress on a companion bill in the House was not as tidy, in part because GOP leaders and Bush are intensely negotiating restrictions it proposes on the surveillance program. Even as the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Chairman Arlen Specter's bill to the Senate floor on a party line vote, the same panel in the House abruptly canceled its scheduled markup.
The developments come amid a sustained White House campaign to persuade Congress to give the administration broad authority to monitor, interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects. The administration is up against an election season in which Republicans are struggling to keep its majority with approval from a war-weary electorate.
Specter, R-Pa., has acknowledged that GOP lawmakers fighting for re-election may not embrace a measure bearing Bush's stamp of approval.
While refusing to give the president a blank check to prosecute the war on terrorism, Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee kept to the White House's condition that a bill giving legal status to the surveillance program pass unamended. That's not a sure thing on the Senate floor, where several amendments await the measure.
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So ... Let me get this straight ... if the "Masters of the Rule by Judicial Fiat" required a law to be passed to conduct wiretaps agianst the enemies of the USA, then CLINTON is again guilty of another crime? Correct?
Yeah , I know. Don't hold my breath.
Well I see the LA Lies continues the DNC directed fraud in calling it "Wiretapping" shows a complete ignorance of reality on the Times part.
Well I see the LA Lies continues the DNC directed fraud in calling it "Wiretapping" shows a complete ignorance of reality on the Times part.
Please explain?
Yah, I know this is from the LA Times, but it isn't helpful to continute to portray the American electorate as "war weary". By most accounts, including the President's, we are still in the early stages of this WOT (or WWIII if ya like) ... to portray the American electorate as "war weary" at this stage only helps to embolden the enemy, both domestic and abroad.
And the big lie appears right in the first line: It's not "Pres. Bush's program"; it's not "domestic"; and it's not "wiretapping." What a bunch of scum-sucking, loser, lying sh*theads these so-called "journalists" are. Pardon the rant.
I just saw a blurb on C-span that said that Democrats are screaming about some "talking points" memo that the GOP put out regarding the NSA legislation.
Have you seen a thread or article containing a memo like that today?
Why read papers anymore? They waste trees and our valuable old eye focusing efforts.
Where are the tree huggers when you need them?
Nope, I have not even heard anything said about this.
Okay..thanks.
Be assured that the Los Angeles Times and the Left in general are thoroughly "war weary".
Of course, they're not fighting the terrorists. They're fighting Bush, America...and history.
3. Divert the argument.
When a Leftist is trapped in an untenable PR position by a foe, they always focus on some irrelevant personal or performance issue and throw a howling hissy fit about that aspect of their foes comments. They complete avoid addressing the substance of the issue in order to personally attack the person making the point.
Just remember, whatever power you give to Bush now may be in Hillary's hands later. Even if we give him the power, there should be strict accountability so we can nail Hillary's abuses in the future.
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