This bumper sticker courtesy of Rushbo and his EIB.
Excellent!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"The Democrats' irrational opposition to strong national security policies that help keep our nation secure should be of great concern to the American people,"
zactly!
This is one of those rare occasions when a political talking point is based upon logic.
The "spineless party" or the party of "getting a backbone"...
This bumper sticker courtesy of Rushbo and his EIB.
I am certainly of the opinion that Congress can pass laws; that's their role.
However, I don't think Congress has constitutional authority to limit the authority of the Executive.
Not likely this will be passed today by the Senate...the Senate version is way different.
We won't see this law until after the elections, if then.
grant?
I wonder if the AP hack thinks the 1994 TelCom act expired.
Every time I call my friends in Pakistan, and Iran, arranging for news interviews as a stringer for the New York times, in exchange for intelligence info on the New York Port Authority, I hear this tap, tap, tapping on my phone line! (Could it be the Presidents foot?)
A while back, before I took something of a hiatus from Free Republic, I was much in protest of this very sort of thing. I felt that Executive power was overstepping its bounds.
I made a mistake, and I was wrong. We are embroiled in a serious multi-front war against an enemy whom will stop at absolutely nothing to kill us. There is no new low that this enemy will refuse to stoop to in its quest to eradicate our civilization. They have declared war on our freedom to be free from tyrants such as themselves, and thus they use every means possible to turn those freedoms against us.
Freedom is for those that respect freedom. No one wants to listen into the conversations of ordinary Americans, and if they tried they would not get away with it for long. To state otherwise is to ignore the many checks and balances that exist within our society provided by the very freedoms that some simply take for granted.
This wiretapping is absolutely essential to protecting our freedoms in this War on Terror against an enemy that desires to overthrow our civilization and take credit for all our accomplishments over the centuries, much as they did to the Byzantine Empire and others.
We must stop them.