Reply #39: With all due respect... [View All]

[ColonelTom]

How many people read the SF Gate op-ed page? How many people watch Meet the Press?

When you keep saying "I support the program, I've never flinched from that" - as Harman did on MTP yesterday - most listeners won't bother to see your other arguments as anything more than hair-splitting and legalistic mumbo-jumbo.

Democrats need to define the program as "warrantless wiretaps without any court review or approval, and without Congressional oversight." Then they can say they're against that needless power grab, because wiretaps have been a key, effective component of our national security operations for decades.

On MTP yesterday, Harman sounded like John Kerry discussing the Iraq war vote in the '04 debates. And that's not good.