Mommy, Why Do Democrats Hate America? Posted by Michael Cohen

Like many regular readers and bloggers on this site, I am outraged at what's happening today in the Senate on the FISA bill.  Part of me thinks the telecom immunity issue is being blown a bit out of proportion, because the much bigger outrage is that Senate Democrats are complicit in gutting FISA and allowing expanded wiretapping to occur without proper legal safeguards. You want to let the telecoms off the hook, that's one thing (to hell with the rule of law and all), but to basically enshrine into law this Administration's efforts to create a unitary executive somehow above congressional and judicial oversight . . . well that really is just beyond the pale.

But just as I was preparing to post pictures of Harry Reid and Jay Rockefeller on my dart board I come across this quote from our fearless President about the FISA bill.

I think we're going to get a good bipartisan bill and so I applaud those Democrats. I'm not going after those Democrats. But there is a big part of the Democrat (sic) Party that is against giving our intelligence officers the tools necessary to protect America.

First of all, nice use of Democrat instead of Democratic (yeah that juvenile dig isn't getting old at all). As for the rest of this quote, of course, what the President is saying here is a lie. Democrats are more than happy to give our intelligence community tools they need to "protect America," they just want to be sure these tools are being used properly and that our judiciary (you know that tricky third branch of government) is able to conduct proper oversight of their activities.

It's shameless quotes like this and a media organization like Fox News that allows these untruths to be parroted to the American people, which goes a long way toward explaining why Democrats are surrendering on FISA as we speak.  They know that if they don't the President will spend the next 8 months spreading lies like "the Democrat Party is against giving our intelligence officers the tools they need to protect America."

Congressional Democrats have clearly made the decision that increasing Democratic majorities in 2008 is their number one priority. And with the sheer number of GOP retirements they may get their wish (and in fact over the long-term they may be correct to pursue this course). But such steps have their downsides - like sanctioning, the "single largest invasion of privacy in the history of the country."

I'm not saying it's right (far from it), but alas, 'it is what it is.'

Comments

[edward dierrow]

I think the huge push is to prevent any need for the pending lawsuits that might make it all the way to supreme court, thereby being pushed into the spotlight. Because court rulings could set precedents, or require comparisons to existing precedents that would cause all kinds of complications. There's no way feds will allow any high court to decide cases concerned with suing ANY company involved with the feds invading on privacy.

[Dan Kervick]

I don't think Democrats need to have such a chip on their shoulder about this kind of Bush rhetoric. Whenever Democrats respond to these challenges by calling the challenge "shameful" and in effect demanding the opponents take it back, they look weak. "For shame" is not an effective weapon in a fight. This has been the problem with the whole crowd of so-called national security Democrats since 2002. Instead of staking out a firm oppositional stand, they look like a bunch of tag-along younger brothers trying to prove they are big boys, and trying not to cry when the older guys taunt them.

When Bush says this kind of stuff, it's by now a bit of a joke. Instead of saying "No Fair!" or "How dare you!, "Take it back!" or "Am not!", we really just need a slightly more decorous way of saying "Fuck you, bub!" Just throw it back in Bush's face. He's the one, after all, who has weakened us all over the world, and proven he doesn't have what it takes to protect American security.

Bush is a failure and a coward who has put my family in jeopardy. He goes sniveling around the country with a team of protectors, who only let him attend "safe" events where there is no chance he will have to face anybody who will expose him as lacking the mental equipment to be President. He's possibly the weakest President in US history, and it is absurd to be wounded by his feeble taunts.

[emlak ilan]

I think we're going to get a good bipartisan bill and so I applaud those Democrats. I'm not going after those Democrats. But there is a big part of the Democrat (sic) Party that is against giving our intelligence officers the tools necessary to protect America.

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