Posted on 01/16/2006 5:03:36 AM PST by Kaslin
This is why I don't give to the NRSC. NOT ONE DIME!
he's got enough experience at this game
He's old and sounded feable. I heard the full cut on the radio. Didn't see the program. Drudge played it last night.
DAMN RIGHT BUMP!! He should be defending President Bush because there is plenty of information out there that this was done in the past including the Clinton debacle. By the way, there are now linking the purchase of disposable phones to the NY Times NSA story. Treason is the only word for what the rag newspaper did.
Ain't that the truth. Bush is a dumbass, but not for the reasons the dems think.
I hate these guys who do everything they can to hold onto power to their dying breath, no matter the consequences. Imagine how much better a position the GOP would be in if Specter retired gracefully and Pat Toomey was sitting in his office, and some genuinely conservative GOPer was at the Judiciary chair.
he clearly could have forseen that he was being manipulated;
Agreed.
some genuinely conservative GOPer was at the Judiciary chair.
But your thoughts may be too hypothetical,
Would that person have won the general election in PA?
Would then the Junior Senator be on the Judiciary?
Certainly not a ranking member.
Specter has his faults, but he has assurred Roberts and now the Alito nominations.
If Impeachment is a remedy so is congress passing laws to prevent the President from doing this sort of thing. Oh wait, if they passed a law then it would intrude on the Presidents Constitutional Obligations during war. Oh wait again, maybe that's what they want? While the congress is out passing laws, maybe they should pass a law against the use of caller IDs since it seems to be a violation of ones privacy.
The Senate doesn't impeach the president anyway.
Does anyone have the transcript? If so, please post
Yes. . .my only check was to come up with Reuters. . .and of course, Breitbart is a Dutch name and seems it has just been recently that it has 'popped' into media consciousness. . .
. . .or rather and at least; my 'media consciousness'. . .
See my post #14
LOL!
April 26, 2005: Andrew Breitbart Statement
I've gotten a ton of e-mails asking me what I'm up to. Here it is:
The New York Times got it right -- I am amicably leaving the Drudge Report after a long and close working relationship with Matt Drudge, a man who will rightfully take his place in the history books as an Internet news pioneer. I am also excited to be a partner in an inspired new endeavor, the Huffington Post. The last time I worked with Arianna she got a guy who didn't deserve to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery disinterred. That was cool. I admit: I like to go where the action is.
As for my politics, I am, quite literally, an open book. 'Hollywood, Interrupted' spells it out perfectly. I am a raucous, opinionated, red meat eating libertarian-leaning conservative who refuses to be relegated to a conservative ghetto. I have lived on L.A.'s liberal Westside for all of my life. I went to the liberal Brentwood School. Most of my friends and extended family lean left and will all attest that at gatherings I gleefully disagree with them. Yet I still love them, and refuse to give up on getting them to see things my way. But the last election cycle gave me an ulcer. As a Dennis Miller/South Park kind of Republican, I am offended by both 'Bush is Hitler' rhetoric and fetus-in-a-jar political speech.
What the world needs more of is amicable -- even jocular -- disagreement. Bringing my former boss and longtime friend Arianna 's intriguing friends to the blogosphere, the ultimate level playing field, makes perfect sense to me, and I am thrilled to be committed to such a groundbreaking project. Will my pals on the right have a place to offer their two cents at the Huffington Post? Absolutely. Will I agree with everyone's written word? Of course not. But that's precisely the point. May the best ideas win.
"May the best ideas win."
The "truth" will win in the end, not this lib or his ideas.
Briefly, the argument for impeachment is that NSA spying is governed by statute under FISA (1978), that the administration did not comply with FISA requirements, and that such noncompliance is plainly a felony under US law, which would constitute grounds for impeachment, as did President Clinton's perjury.
The administration argues that FISA allows for exceptions made elsewhere in the law and points to the AUMF (the authorization for the use of military force) as the law that allows the president to conduct electronic surveillance on the basis that spying is part of warfare and since the President was authorized to use military force as he deems fit, he can also spy as he deems fit.
We will have to see how this plays out. IMHO, the President is on very shaky ground, because there is a specific statute (FISA) that addressed exactly the rules under which spying is legal, which the AUMF does not plainly override. Underneath it all, the administration's argument sounds to me like a much more refined version of Clinton quibbling over the definition of "is".
Personally, I think Arlen's a dope, but even a dope is right sometimes. However, as a practical matter, I think there is not much chance of Bush being impeached and even less chance of him being removed.
Thanks for the 'Breitbart fill'. . .I miss a lot; apparently ;^). . .
As for the action Breitbart mentions. . .it sounds more like he is going back to a 'past life'. (probably more to the story; but whatever. . .)
>That said. . .am left wondering if he just misconstrued or misread between the lines, perhaps. . .to come up with the specter. . .of Specter re this post.
Thanks again for the 'rest of the story'. . .
Brietbart update:
After leaving the Huffington Post, Andrew Breitbart started getting huge traffic on Breitbart.Com between Aug 15 and Sept , when The Drudge Report began linking to Breitbart's legal copies of AP and Reuters news stories, make Breitbart.com popular overnight.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=breitbart.com
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