Do the Democrats think burglars have a right to moonless nights?
In a comment to this post about the president’s warrantless surveillance of foreign communications, Jeff writes:
Shhhhh. Email Nancy Pelosi & tell her to keep up the good work. It’s always entertaining to watch political parties walk off a cliff.
Ain’t that it?
Let’s set aside for the moment the constitutional question, which resolves emphatically in the president’s favor, and consider only the political question, which also resolves emphatically in the president’s favor. Come next year, an election year, the Democrats want congressional hearings on “snoopgate.” They want to berate Mr. Bush, formally and publicly, for tapping the e-mails and phone calls of people who’d like to kill Americans by the thousands. They’re going to shout it to the country: “The president is listening to al-Qaeda — and we’ll have none of it!”
It’s amazingly stupid.
What’s next? Will Pelosi et al hold a press conference to announce themselves in favor of moonless nights for cat burglars?
Somebody told the Democrats, who are political nitwits, that they can win an election by providing ad footage to Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman. That person must be found and shot as an enemy of the people.
Congressional Republicans deserve a vigorous challenge in next year’s mid-terms. They’ve governed abysmally, and irresponsibly; they’ve been unfaithful to even their own principles. The American electorate should be given an opportunity to punish them. But congressional Democrats insist on portraying themselves as even more irresponsible than their GOP counterparts.
The Democrats are not serious about winning the mid-terms. Accordingly, they will not.
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Relatedly, this from Rasmussen Reports (via Instapundit):
Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 23% disagree.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Americans say they are following the NSA story somewhat or very closely.
Just 26% believe President Bush is the first to authorize a program like the one currently in the news. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he is not while 26% are not sure.
Does this sound like a story Howard Dean & Co. can ride to victory?
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