[Aussie Dasher]

Anyone mention to Al the Loser who won in 2000?

Poor bugger has obviously been taking lessons from Howie Dean!

[George Smiley]

A 90 minute Gore speech?

I hope they taped it for use at Gitmo and the secret CIA prisons.

We'll get everything we want to know out of those guys in short order, now that we have this to use.....

[Kenservatized]

I am truly surprised nobody said:

"STFU Gore!"

(There...I feel much better.)

[ml/nj]

Gore, and his ilk, are a threat to the Republic.

ML/NJ

[mystery-ak]

It speaks....

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Being Clinton's VP has really turned Gore into a shadow of his former self. I remember when he was pro-life and a throwback to the Democrats of yesteryear.

Gore didn't have the balls to stand up to Clinton's corruption and his meddling in his failed 2000 campaign, so he became a lunatic leftist and is trying to blame someone else for his lack of fortitude and guilty conscience.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Let me be the first to say "Gore who?"

[LurkedLongEnough]

[Paul Ross]

Unfortunately the online polls actually have the administration losing this issue.

It is really important for the administration to go on the offensive...and claim first the rhetorical high ground...that he is in fact DEFENDING THE LAW, that being the Constitution, observing it to the letter, AND PROTECTING LIFE AND LIBERTY. And no AMERICAN rights have been flouted. Period.

By virtue of the responses of Gore and Clinton, who routinely flouted warrant requirements with their use of RICO, they are demonstrable hypocrites about lawfulness. This is far worse than the pot calling the kettle black. GWB is reaping the rewards of his bipartisanship. Any ways, the presumption is that they wouldn't defend the law of the constitution, these cretins would have abdicated it, and furthermore, they would not have protected U.S. life and liberty in those instances, so squeamish about self-imposed niceties...that it would have assuredly meant that much more U.S. blood would have been spilled...right here in the U.S.

[savedbygrace]

Gore's totally wrong on the facts WRT the NSA survellience, but the thing that's just so deliciously funny is that the MLK wiretaps were court-approved.

Gore's thesis is based on thin-air.

[Lakeshark]

Did they chain the audience to their seats?

And how many gnawed their wrists off?

[Howlin]

and, while stopping short of suggesting impeachment

Really?

Then I wonder what THIS was all about?

To: Howlin

Here's the bottom line of Gore's speech.

Republican as well as Democratic members of Congress should support the bipartisan call of the Liberty Coalition for the appointment of a special counsel to pursue the criminal issues raised by warrantless wiretapping of Americans by the President.

Second, new whistleblower protections should immediately be established for members of the Executive Branch who report evidence of wrongdoing -- especially where it involves the abuse of Executive Branch authority in the sensitive areas of national security.

Third, both Houses of Congress should hold comprehensive-and not just superficial-hearings into these serious allegations of criminal behavior on the part of the President. And, they should follow the evidence wherever it leads.

Fourth, the extensive new powers requested by the Executive Branch in its proposal to extend and enlarge the Patriot Act should, under no circumstances be granted, unless and until there are adequate and enforceable safeguards to protect the Constitution and the rights of the American people against the kinds of abuses that have so recently been revealed.

Fifth, any telecommunications company that has provided the government with access to private information concerning the communications of Americans without a proper warrant should immediately cease and desist their complicity in this apparently illegal invasion of the privacy of American citizens.

Freedom of communication is an essential prerequisite for the restoration of the health of our democracy.

It is particularly important that the freedom of the Internet be protected against either the encroachment of government or the efforts at control by large media conglomerates. The future of our democracy depends on it.

Headlines later today and tomorrow:

GORE CALLS FOR SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATION OF BUSH - Hints at Impeachment of President for Abuse of Power in Domestic Spying Scandal.

499 posted on 01/16/2006 1:13:20 PM EST by kristinn

[kristinn]

Here's the bottom line of Gore's speech.

[jveritas]

Much of Gore’s speech was devoted to Bush’s national security initiatives, including the domestic eavesdropping program that Democrats have tried to seize as an issue for the 2006 midterm elections.

Excellent the democrats will fall again in the trap of proving that they are not be trusted at all in the issue of national security and defense, in other words if they make this issue their prime campaign issue, they are going to lose another election, again.

[faq]

During the 1992 presidential campaign, Al Gore criticized the first Bush administration for it's "blatant disregard" of Iraq's ties to terrorism. On September 29, 1992 Al Gore said, "The Reagan/Bush Administration was also prepared to overlook the fact that the terrorist who masterminded the attack on the Achille Lauro and the savage murder of American Leon Klinghoffer fled with Iraqi assistance." Al Gore went on to say, "There might have been a moment's pause for reflection when Iraqi aircraft intentionally attacked the USS Stark in May 1987, killing 37 sailors -- but the [Reagan/Bush] Administration smoothed it over very fast."

full text of the speech

[Hoodat]

In honor of Martin Luthur King, Jr., did Algore mention how proud he was of his father's civil rights legacy which included a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act?

[Fiddlstix]

[JoeSixPack1]

“A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government,” he concluded.

And Slick didn't make a guest appearance???

[andy58-in-nh]

“A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government,” he concluded.

Obviously, that doesn't include a Democrat President who lies to a grand jury.

[ConservativeGreek]

90 minutes of Gore, its like one of the old Kremlin speeches or a short Fidel speech.

[Redleg Duke]

No, President Bush is a threat to "Democrat-cy".

[Enterprise]

Bush calls Gore a zit on a donkey's butt.