[NonValueAdded]

Horse hockey ... GWB has been remarkably consistent with his statements. It is the dinosaur media that seems to discover "new" things, likely because what GWB says is out of phase with what they've been misreporting.

[FlipWilson]

Just send the author of the article a copy of In re Sealed Case. Then, ask who is and isn't obeying the law.

[BallyBill]

It is almost like the left has finally figured out what a Straw Man is, they surely have been using him long enough.

[rellimpank]

--this must be the latest Demotraitor talking point--this is about the third variation of this theme I've seen--

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Neither Feingold nor any other prominent Democrat is incapable of understanding:

1. Article II of the Constitution.
2. The facts and basic logistics of modern communication.
3. The proven use of telephony by the 9/11 terrorists to make calls from the US to foreign countries and to receive calls from foreign countries while in the US before the attacks.
4. The fact that Senators are not in a position to pass on the legality of Presidential actions. If they wish to challenge the propriety of executive action they need to walk to the nearest U.S. Courthouse and file suit;

and yet they still act this way.

[advance_copy]

What Bush's critics are saying - and some of them are RepublicansRINOs - is not that the government should stop electronic surveillance but that it should conduct these operations in accordance with the law, specifically the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which was written precisely to govern such surveillance.

In other words, they want to shut down the Terrorist Surveillance Program and go back to letting lawyers and judges decide how we gather intelligence on Al Qaeda. A "pre-9/11" mindset, these leftists have.

[Mike Darancette]

Bush knows very well that neither Feingold nor any other prominent Democrat would ever say the U.S. should not spy on its enemies.

Bush knows no such thing but he obviously believes it to be true.

Now who is building straw men?

[OpusatFR]

This must be the new talking point, "Straw Men."

The phrase has been used by just about all of them at this point.

Dear Reporters and Pseudowriters,

Use something else. For your enlightenment, I've found this for you:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/

Straw Man is as overused at this point as Nazi, McCarthy, Neo-Con and yellowcake, for that matter, Plamegate and other truly boring, regurgitated verbiage.

Love,

Opus

PS - Do all of you behave like some gaggle at all times?

[talleyman]

When a lib says anything is "is a gross distortion of the facts," that means it's exactly right.
("Can you say 'Gorelick Wall?' I knew you could.")

[1rudeboy]

Bill Clinton would do the very thing that The Milwaukee Journal finds so offensive. Moreover, he did it without hesitation, and instinctively. All we heard then was that he's "slick," and reporters/journalists fawned over him for it and his mastery of the technique.

[ozzymandus]

"Straw man" is apparently a new talking point for the commie-libs. They've been using it a lot the last few days. Somebody at RAT headquarters sent a fax to the gang members.