[pierrem15]

Bingo! But since that would have meant arresting Eleanor Roosevelt, Lillian Helman, etc., as well as other Rat party members and activists, Truman did nothing.

So Bush really is like Truman: both failed utterly to combat the 5th column within.

[Non-Sequitur]

Bingo! But since that would have meant arresting Eleanor Roosevelt, Lillian Helman, etc., as well as other Rat party members and activists, Truman did nothing.

Would you rather he arrested William Taft, Thomas Dewey, Richard Nixon or prominent Republicans? How about arresting you?

Grant the president the right to jail 'traitors' without trial and you're leaving yourself at the mercy of his definition of just who a traitor is.