That's a good point. It says a lot that Democrats would make a big stink about not going to a court that, according to them, wouldn't make any effort to protect anyone's rights anyway. Very commie-like. "You haf your papers??"
I'm not sure what Coulter is trying to prove. Look at her third-to-last paragraph, where she says that the FISA court modified or rejected ZERO warrant requests from Reagan, Bush Senior, and Clinton, but modified or rejected 179 requests from Bush Junior. I can only think of two possible explanations for this.
1. Clinton fired all the FISA court members and replaced them with partisan Democrats. But according to Wikipedia, FISA judges are appointed by the U.S. Chief Justice (who was Rehnquist). So Clinton never had the power to politicise the FISA court.
2. Bush is abusing his wiretap powers in a way that Reagan, Bush Senior, and Clinton never did.
The second theory seems to fit the facts much better than the first. Am I missing something here?