Posted on 01/12/2006 5:20:34 AM PST by mal
Just because Ted Kennedy is busy working on a children’s book about a lovable anthropomorphised character called Splash (that’s the name of his Portuguese water dog, not his car) doesn’t mean he’s not playing his usual incisive role on the Senate judicial committee. Last week he attacked Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito for having been ‘influenced by the Goldwater presidency’. This week he was back from his alternative universe and more concerned with actual presidencies. ‘Undeterred by the public outcry,’ he fumed, ‘the President vows to continue spying on American citizens.’
What ‘public outcry’? Senator Kennedy is referring to the latest scandal du jour: the National Security Agency has been conducting ‘warrantless surveillance’ of communications between al-Qa’eda types overseas and their contacts in the US. And though the polls on the subject vary a bit, all have produced majorities in favour of the administration. That’s to say, if I’m getting calls in New Hampshire from Abu Musab al-Zarkawi, the American people see nothing wrong with the NSA eavesdropping on such calls. Back in President Goldwater’s day, there might have been a public outcry. But there isn’t now. As George W. Bush put it, with disarming straightforwardness, ‘If somebody from al-Qa’eda is calling you, we’d like to know why.’
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
Thank you for the ping! I was unable to read the article because it requires a subscription. But I'll try to catch up with Steyn.
... it seems preposterous that one of the EU's supposedly reform-minded leaders, Frau Merkel, has decided to make a priority of reviving the corpse of the European constitution...
...Rumsfeld's challenge to the Europeans applies to the naysayers at home, too; you don't like the way we do things? Fine, what have you got?..."
That Rumsfeld exchange with der speigel guy was priceless!
Thank GOD for Rummy!!!
Them nancy-boys in Brokeback Mountain seem to think so.
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