Barr has more conservative credentials than 90% of the Couch-Rambos around here. I don't want ANY president to be able to tap phones without somebody outside his office involved. It wasn't right when Clinton did it and it's not right now. Hearing the way the jackals are jumping all over Bob Barr and Grover Norquist's backs makes me question either the wisdom, sincerity or belief in American principals of these people who think they have some grasp on the history of freedom. If it wasn't for Grover Norquist, there's a good chance we wouldn't have a Republican majority and White House today.
I'm not willing to give credit to this wiretapping for the lack of terrorist attacks any more than I'm willing to give Pat Robertson credit for there not being any major earthquakes in the US.
Maybe it's just in the nature of a second-term president to try to grab too much power, or to think a little too highly of his position in the system of checks and balances. Let's hope somebody has a talk with President Bush before he hurts himself. I've been hearing an awful lot of Nixon-speak coming from the Whitehouse lately. And maybe it's heresy around here to say it, but Nixon was a crook, crazy and hurt the Conservative agenda.
Yes, that's the thing - I don't want any President with that kind of power. When Clinton did it, that FISA court didn't exist yet. Now it does, and it's basically a rubber stamp type of court. In all of 2004, no request was rejected. The warrant was issued by FISA every single time they asked. So why didn't Bush go to the FISA court? This has me very confused. He could have easily stayed well within the boundaries and avoided all this trouble just by going to FISA. And he could have even gone to them *after the fact* if it was an emergency! Somethings rotten with this one. It does not bode well for us.
LOL! What do you guys smoke?
bob barr is an employee of the ACLU.