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2006-02-12 Home Front: WoT

GOP, Dems drawing up a truce on NSA program

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-02-12 02:13|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Even a top Democratic Senate staffer acknowledged that the party isn't looking for a political win on the issue--a wash, he said, will do.

Don't let them get away with it. Keep hammer them with their own words. Show them to be the party of surrender, the party that puts political positioning above national security, the party that buries it own record of doing exactly the same thing they accuse others of. Do not let them get a chance the reform for another assault. Press them, run them to the ground. Its Hammering Time [tm].

Posted by Ebbaimp Pheper3780 2006-02-12 08:48|| 2006-02-12 08:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Shocking, absorutrey shocking, another "non-start for democrats."

Posted by Besoeker 2006-02-12 08:50|| 2006-02-12 08:50|| Front Page Top

#3 LOL! ChimpHitler wins again. He must be very very ~~smart~~ lucky.

Posted by 6 2006-02-12 10:40|| 2006-02-12 10:40|| Front Page Top

#4 "What happened? Simply put, the White House used its bully pulpit to turn a complicated legal issue into an us-against-them, war on terrorism issue."

Bullshit. Total spin. Kiss my ass, Liz Halloran / US News Editors.

What happened is the Dhimmidonks, once again, tried to create another political shitfest - when they knew it was constitutional, had done it themselves (Clinton & Carter), and counted on the meme winning the day - screw the facts. And once again, it's blowing up in their faces. The Dhimmidonks are the political equivalent of the Paleo / jihadi red-wire / green-wire morons. They've had and amazing number of BS blockbusters blow up in their faces over the last 5 years.

Truce my ass, prosecution, baby. Round 'em up, lock 'em up, or just shoot the ratbastards. And don't forget to include the MSM co-conspirators, either. Enuff, already.

Posted by .com 2006-02-12 11:20|| 2006-02-12 11:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Chill, .com. The more they do this, the more they cede the 2006 and 2008 elections. Works for me. Just spread the word that Carter and Clinton did it too, only they lost Iran and the the Iranian embassy, negotiated while Kimmie built nukes, and allowed OBL to send a second wave of WTC attack.

Posted by Darrell 2006-02-12 11:38|| 2006-02-12 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 See Catuah allowed wiretaps above. I expect that might have slowed down these piss-dripping, no-account, gravy-trainers.

Posted by Lester M 2006-02-12 12:24|| 2006-02-12 12:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Chill?

LOL.

Posted by .com 2006-02-12 12:30|| 2006-02-12 12:30|| Front Page Top

#8 .com is right. If I wasn't simi-literate I could put it into written language properly.

You don't "chill" when you are at war. People who want to win this (not all are on the right you know) should go for the throat and fight to win. It's not about "politics" it's about survival of our way of living and our real rights andf freedom. These folks should be held responsible for their actions. These people are fighting against winning by going out for political gain. They are aiding our foes and hurting our cause.

You need not "chill" is you are not being rash or irresponsible. .com isn't.

Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-02-12 16:05|| 2006-02-12 16:05|| Front Page Top

#9 SPo'D - You said used non-sequential $20's would be okay, right?

;-)

Posted by .com 2006-02-12 16:08|| 2006-02-12 16:08|| Front Page Top

#10 "What happened? Simply put, the White House used its bully pulpit to turn a complicated legal issue into an us-against-them, war on terrorism issue."
My point is, spin or not, what's wrong with that?

Posted by Darrell 2006-02-12 16:13|| 2006-02-12 16:13|| Front Page Top

#11 The Whitehouse is doing a shitty job. The Whitehouse has yet to convince teh majority of the population we are in a war and need to act that way in many parts of our lives.

The Dems and MSM are spinning the real defeat of their broken ideas here. 95% of the population doesn't even realize we are in a war let alone act as if we are and they still manage to lose?

Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-02-12 16:20|| 2006-02-12 16:20|| Front Page Top

#12 What do you want me to say?

They were briefed, they knew the entire "issue" was bogus, they are disingenuous assholes - and their enablers in the MSM are, also, lying whores.

Why give them any ground, any harbor, any excuse for what is a fabrication of lies, half-truths, and partisan political bullshit?

It's easy to forget where you are... and think that Joe Average knows what we know - or is exposed to it, at least.

Not True.

The penetration of the Internet is a small subset of the US population. The number who are "into" blogs where the truth gets regular play is even smaller. Most Americans still get their info from the MSM... and only the MSM.

That's a good reason why, is it not?

No quarter for lies, spin, bullshit.

My take.

Posted by .com 2006-02-12 16:22|| 2006-02-12 16:22|| Front Page Top

#13 I agree with .com. These traitors did this with full knowledge that it would hurt our WOT efforts. The fact that they did this TO SCORE A FEW POLITICAL POINTS no matter how many americans died is an out-and-out act of treason.

Truce be damn. When someone breaks into your house and threatens your family you dont call a 'truce' or say 'ok... well just kill the youngest one and I'll keep the older kid ok?'. You nutrealize them either by getting them to give up their plans (by fleeing or surrendering) or you disable them or (yes) kill them. You definately don't tell them the code to disable the alarm system like the Donks and NYT just did...

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-02-12 17:46|| 2006-02-12 17:46|| Front Page Top

#14 We know that the Dems were briefed. We know that the FISA law doesn't apply. We know that every president has ignored FISA when they deemed it necessary. CW2 comes closer.

While the analogy won't stretch very far, in some ways, GWB is in a similar position to Roosevelt in 1938. He knew that the Facists were an existential treat, but the country wasn't ready to follow him there. GWB has not been able to convince a significant part of the public. It is unfortunate that many of the unconvinced would not be convinced by a nuclear detonation in Manhattan.

I hope that the next next mass casualty attack in the USA will awaken more of the nation. At that time, we will also have to clean our own house of fifth columnists and seditionists.

Posted by SR-71">SR-71 2006-02-12 18:45|| 2006-02-12 18:45|| Front Page Top

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