Posted on 12/17/2005 7:35:57 AM PST by joinedafterattack
So what do you think we should do to and about the Dems and RINOS?
Oh, the hypocrisy from the Left was expected. This isn't even legitimate criticism; it's pure reactionary partisanship. But it doesn't change the fact that it gives the hand-wringers one more distraction to exploit. And it tempts conservatives to invoke "the end justifies the means" arguments.
Pure partisan insanity, in a time of War. [/shaking head in disbelief]
Do the Democrats even try to think?
Obviously the "eavesdropping" would not be wasted on normal people. Software looks for certain "keywords" that may trigger additional surveillance.
Those keywords are not "I'm having sex with my neighbor's wife". This is not England where the LOCAL magistrates can gain access to any phone line and all email of individuals for reasonable cause. We don't even have these types of secret surveillance systems in place.
Here's what I just sent Sen. Specter:
Dear Senator Specter,
I am dismayed by your recent antics concerning the NSA and President Bush. He has the authority to protect the citizens of the United States, and should not have to wait for a "smoking gun" to respond to terrorists. People's lives are at stake, and we are in the middle of a war.
He has notified Congress at least a dozen times about this evesdropping. Rather than being concerned that these leakers are causing great harm to our Republic, I see your name attached to nearly every article that is critical of the President of the United States instead.
I thank you for your service to this great country, but it's time for you to resign for the good of the nation. You should have resigned after defending former President Clinton by referring to Scottish law rather than the Constitution, but here we are years later and you are again acting contrary to the interests of the United States and her citizens.
Please do the right thing.
Sincerely,
XXXX
Did you see the clip run by Fox of the little 'ol lady in Iraq that had just voted and said pretty much the same thing you just posted, including telling them that they could all go to Hell?
She sounded to me like she was crazy about W.
Oops, never mind...most of 'em never even read the proposed legislation so how could they have known what would come about.
examples...Patriot Act Redux, and in the Dark
The Patriot Act was passed in haste, in the angst-filled days after the Sept. 11 attacks, with some lawmakers candidly admitting they never read the details.
The USA Patriot Act and Censorship
Many of the members of Congress and their staffs had not even read the Patriot Act, all 342 pages of it, before the vote on it was taken.
Students criticize PATRIOT Act
Many of those who voted for the bill have since claimed that their staff never even read it.
It would seem to me that those with the responsibility of voting on a bill should read the bill before they vote and not leave it to their staff who may, after all, not be qualified to accomplish such a task.
Peyton R. Helm President, Muhlenberg College
Those of us who have actually read the USA Patriot Act (all 342 pages of it) realize that much of it is sound, reasonable, and laudable. We also realize (as many of Adams' critics do not) that reading the act hardly ensures one will understand its meaning. To really understand the Patriot Act, with its scores of inscrutable references to minor changes in specific clauses of a host of other federal statutes, requires one to read extensive analysis and explanation of the act by trustworthy legal experts.
I really think this is just another notch in the Left's plan to wear the public down with repeated charges of scandal. Even if none of the allegations stick, eventually people become convinced that any administration earning so much opprobrium MUST be hiding something. And they're willing to vote Democrat just to make it go away.
The only hope is to spread the good news via the emerging media, and to tell the truth in the four corners of Christendom.
oops...Is our nation being run by a bunch of imbeciles?
"CONGRESS", HUH?
- Members of Congress from both parties expressed outrage Friday - Yeah, sure, looks like the normal suspects
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis.
Former Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla.,
only missing Pubbie is McCain
The title is misleading...imagine that!
"I agree."
Check out my post #26 here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1542333/posts
That's been the agenda all along...the "story" is over a year old but it was sat on to whip out later.
I will definitely give the President the benefit of the doubt in determining the legality of this over that pack of sniveling mountebanks and blowhards in the US Senate.
According to other stuff I've read today he consulted with the Justice Department and "senior members of Congress" before implementing it.
I believe this is a clear example of the double-crosses that result from trusting "senior members of Congress," whether Democrat or RINO, with sensitive, leakable information. Democrats and RINOs like Specter put their own political survival and hatred of Bush ahead of the American people. I hope the President makes that point in his speech Sunday. This leak is part of a carefully orchestrated effort to set the President up for impeachment.
Or start fighting back. Bush apparently was mad as hell in his radio address and hopefully will continue to attack tomorrow in his televised address. However, the Republicans need to go farther than that.
The Democrats have been getting a free ride in congress. It's time to start playing hardball. Congressmen on the left need to be brought up on ethics charges for campaign finance violations. The Cisneros special prosecutor report needs to be released in full. It will destroy Hillary. It's time to put on the body armor and go to war in the House and Senate. If they don't have the nerve for it they don't need to be in the majority.
best be careful, the number of accomplices has been revealed to be many. the new media will spread the truth, I can only wonder will the truth be enough?
maybe yes....
maybe no.....
He can then turn the tables on the howler monkeys, and demonstrate that their feigned concern is nothing more than self-serving partisanship and betrayal of trust.
In other words, he wins if he takes the high ground. The Democrats (and a notable handful of "republicans") can never rise from their sewer, so he needn't fear any challenge for the position.
This president has been very good at turning the enemy's weapons against them.
Oh, no doubt! I'd believe a Magic 8-Ball before I trusted Arlen Specter, let alone Ted Kennedy.
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