Democrats Say They Didn't Back Wiretapping

Yahoo (AP) ^ | 12/20/2005 | KATHERINE SHRADER

[bkepley]

The biggest problem for the democrats right now is married couples with children. Imagine how this will play with mothers. Not too well.

[Cboldt]

Ah, how would they KNOW that they didn't get briefed on all the details if they weren't given "all the details?" What ARE the details?

I suspect those who assert "didn't get all the details" are comparing what they were told in confidence with what was (perhaps illegally) let out of the bag. HEre's one complaint that rings of "we were told of the technology, but not that the targets would be in the US."

Nevermind the fact that the program is classified; with so few words in play in the reports, it isn't possible to discern precisely what was disclosed and what is actually being conducted.

... recalled a briefing about changes in international electronic surveillance, but does not remember being told of a program snooping on individuals in the United States.

[newconhere]

Bingo. Mother of 3 boys under 5. Im livid.

[gaspar]

Rockefeller is the ultimate trust fund baby. An elitist prep school and Ivy Leaguer who hates the military and cowers in the face of fascism, he cannot be depended to defend this country. Yet, in the acme of political irony he is the leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Democrats sure know how to pick 'em.

[Keeper of the Turf]

Bush finally got on the offensive and his poll numbers are rising. Now this. Pisses me off.

Have no fear....his poll numbers will rise from this, also.

[jveritas]

The majoirty of voters can clearly see now that the democrats are now and without any doubt in the camp of defending the terrorists, cut and run from Iraq, and absolute defeatism.

The democrats and their media whores are committing the ultimate political suicide for rabidly going after President Bush on the Patriot Acts and for authorizing wire tapping of terror suspects living in the US. In time of war, such despicable behavior by liberals and their media will not be tolerated by the majority of voters, and the democrats are going to be annihilated in the coming elections.

[KC_Conspirator]

I disagree. Cindy Sheehan was attacking "Bush's war", etc. democrats have never thought we are at war, and if we are, its America's fault.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I am beginning to think that the Dems got the briefings and they are just too stupid to understand what they were being briefed upon, to o stupid to even ask question about what they didn't understand and too stupid to remember most of it at all.

Hello.. we know Nancy Pelosi is not all that bright and Red admitted he is a moron in his own words.

Now watch them take the stupid defense.."we are too stupid to understand all of this- but damn it we don't like it."

My very own ultra feminist and left wing MIL- is getting freaked out by her favorite lib's behavior in DC.

She actually said that the dems should back off and left the President do his job.

I guess when it comes to actually protecting their own backside from being blown up- some liberals are more serious minded that I once thought.

[syriacus]

Jay Rockefeller is John D. Rockefeller, IV. His father, John D. Rockefeller, III, was born in 1906.

Thanks for correcting me. I should have thought more clearly before posting his name.

Isn't it cute, how John D. Rockefeller, IV tries to hide his ancestry behind the name "Jay"?

[Casloy]

"As you know, I am neither a technician nor an attorney."

Sorry Jay, we'll try and dumb it down for you and your fellow rats in the future. You ever hear of asking questions when you don't understand something?

[Wasanother]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,70606,00.html

Just a blast from the past.

[shield]

Lies Lies more Lies....

[728b]

If any of the attacks that were thwarted by this "spying" had actually gone ahead and gotten Americans killed, every one of these Dems would have been screaming that Bush did not act!

It must be nice to always have a position of complaint. Come to think of it, that defines the Democrats today.

[Sacajaweau]

I believe this surveillance is intricatelt tied to the Patriot Act and we may be missing the other side of the story.

Regardless, the Primary Function of our Government was from its inception was to Protect the US as a WHOLE.

We're talking electronic surveillance here. No one is knocking down doors. We're trying to counter terrorists.

Whoever wrote the Lincoln quote is a genious: "The Constitution is not a suicide pact".

[syriacus]

I believe Pelosi said Rockefeller has the letter...in other words, he wrote it but never sent it....put it in a sealed envelope and saved it.

Was it his butler's "day off"? How lazy can a guy be?

[bkepley]

I disagree. Cindy Sheehan was attacking "Bush's war", etc. democrats have never thought we are at war, and if we are, its America's fault.

I really meant Bush's handling of the war, the WMD's etc. all are good targets and I think drove down his competence rating.

[Onelifetogive]

Democrats Say They Didn't Back Wiretapping

Shouldn't this read...

Dimocrats Claim They Had No Part in Defending Americans.

[Mo1]

Could be

[justrepublican]

"As you know, I am neither a technician nor intelligent."

Thats more accurate.

[EQAndyBuzz]

cough cough Echelon.