Harry Reid IS a stink bomb!
Generally speaking, ex post facto laws are seen as a violation of the rule of law as it applies in a free and democratic society...
"The sentiment that ex post facto laws are against natural right is so strong in the United States, that few, if any, of the State constitutions have failed to proscribe them. The federal constitution indeed interdicts them in criminal cases only; but they are equally unjust in civil as in criminal cases, and the omission of a caution which would have been right, does not justify the doing what is wrong. Nor ought it to be presumed that the legislature meant to use a phrase in an unjustifiable sense, if by rules of construction it can be ever strained to what is just." (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Isaac McPherson, August 13th, 1813)
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The Founders would be astonished at the modern Democrat Party.
Especially terrorists. Now they can plan more attacks.
senator reid et al....
stinkers in action.
Often times a stong oder will accompany a demonic presence.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823537/posts
Hunter calls for Reid to step down over ‘war is lost’ remarks
Harry Reid is the best thing we have to keep the ‘08 election within grasp. Let him keep making a jackass out of himself and his party.
Dana Perino needs to tell the PUBLIC, OVER and OVER, what kind of things Harry Reid does to the American People!!
Its fun watching Reid grow smaller with each passing day.
If the telecoms didn’t break the law, they have nothing to fear from lawsuits.
How many times will he stab our troops in the back and get away with it?
After they failed on Monday failed to block Republican efforts to retroactively bar lawsuits against telephone companies that helped the government monitor suspected jihadist communications after September 11, Mr. Reid pulled from the floor legislation to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the primary law governing the monitoring of electronic communications. Unless Congress acts, on Feb. 1 U.S. intelligence agencies will lose the ability to monitor at least some overseas terrorist telecommunications without first obtaining court approval.
The Democrats’ fatal flaw
Sedona.biz | 12/01/2007 | Robert J. Caldwell
Posted on 12/01/2007 5:53:21 PM EST by mdittmar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933362/posts
[snip] Joe Klein, a politically astute columnist notably hard on George Bush, writes this in the Dec. 3 issue of Time magazine: “If the Democrats want to win in 2008, they can’t be mealymouthed on issues of national security.” Klein then proceeds to cite two matters, Iraq war funding and surveillance of terrorist communications, about which Democrats have been “foolishly partisan.” Klein concludes by warning that if Democrats can’t credibly promise to “protect the nation against enemies, foreign and domestic ... they simply will not win the presidency.” [end]
Bush is supposed to be the Commander-in-Chief, currently running a war on terror. Surveillance of possible jihadists is a crucial facet of that war. Therefore, Bush should be able to conduct surveillance related to the war effort without needing any okay from Congress. I wish Bush would tell Reid to go play in the street, but I’m not holding my breath.