“..how did the Democrats sink to a place where they place pandering to left-wing constituencies…”

When might be the question.
When Bill Clinton and his ilk made immoralities and selfish self-centered thinking a way of life in the White House, many other narcissists bought in to that mentality. Personal gain over all else. Now deceit and CYA is the norm for many ‘constituencies’, sadly.
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Get what you want at any cost to OTHERS, just CYA and make plans for your own damn future.

“Look, it’s Osama! He’s on the phone, what’s he saying?”

“Can you hear me now? If so, it’s illegal, get off the line, I want to plan the murder of thousands of innocents without you listening in. And don’t go rummaging in my dresser drawer either.”

the BS they are trying to pull with Turkey

This doesn’t get as much attention as it needs to. Their only purpose is to try and undermine our effort in Iraq by pissing off an ally.

Anyway, the privacy train left the station long ago for anyone that uses a credit card or a cell phone etc. Try googling yourself. If call intercepts stop someone from blowing up an elementary school, I don’t mind them listening to me talk about an embarrassing rash.

On October 18th, 2007 at 5:54 am, slp said: Everyone who comes into the United States is subject to search at their point of entry.

Surely you don’t mean Moslems and terrorists coming across the Mexican border with the illegal aliens?

Seems neither party regards terrorism as a real threat, so the motive for eavesdropping is probably control of the people by the unitary executive.

On October 17th, 2007 at 11:07 pm, Drained Brain said:
The posturing explains to some extent the 11% approval rating Congress has earned. Anybody want to bet they can’t attain single digits?

Considering this is a Zogby poll there is more than likely a liberal bias to this poll, plus if you factor in about a 3% +/- margin of error they probably are already at the single digit level. Between this and the BS they are trying to pull with Turkey someone really needs to have a nice quiet chat with the FBI for treason and sedition. What say you Queen Pelosi?

One of the two democrat mantras of the last election was “How dare you say I’m not patriotic!“.

I’ll say it.

It’s not patriotic to be a bunch of terrorist enablers.

Unintended Consequences

Strange they don’t report this fact when talking about this.

Remember the 2006 election?
Where the people got rid of the trash in the GOP?
Perhaps we are now seeing what the Reps are capable of now that the RINOs are gone. (I hope, I hope, I hope AND pray!)
Lets’ see if they also get the message about fiscal responsibility and immigration (USA, not NAU!).

Oh, BTW:
Has anyone noticed the story circulating Hillary Clinton?
She voted to stop the wire tapping of terrorists, yet had no problem using her husband’s administration to wiretap her political opponents.
Didn’t she work with McGovern & Co. to get Nixon impeached for that?
Double standard or Triple?

Sort of OT – here in NJ, the general election is coming up and yesterday I read the funniest election sign ever. It read “Stop Higher Taxes, Vote No On All Ballots.”

Apparently, in NJ, Dem and Rep alike love to raise taxes…

On October 18th, 2007 at 4:46 am, T J Green said:
Absolutely unreal, to think that members of Congress would interfere with intelligence focused on incoming calls made by identified foreign threats.

but, TJ they’ve got their base so worried that the evil President Bush wants to listen in on their phone calls. They don’t want the government “spying” on them. Does anyone see the irony?

Of course, with much of their treasonous activities and their rhetoric that bolsters our enemies, some of them may be on somebody’s watch list.

Of course, if they were in the President’s seat, then “spying” on conservatives would be justified in their minds.