Remember Social Security? Bush on run again, trying to sell illegal spying

[ProSense]

Bush launches a bid to justify domestic spying

By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | January 24, 2006

WASHINGTON -- President Bush yesterday launched a weeklong blitz of election-style campaigning to build support for his domestic spying program, seeking to persuade the country to uphold his power to bypass laws in the interest of national security -- a power that many legal scholars say he does not have.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/01/24/bush_launches_a_bid_to_justify_domestic_spying/

Impeachment is in the air... I can Smell it

By JWinston70
01/23/2006 03:27:21 PM EST
Keywords: Impeachment, Bush, Cheney, Hastert, Impeach, King George

Be careful of what you wish for... It may just come true. Keep this in mind when looking to impeach the monkey boy, King George!

This week Zogby International released its poll and by a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/1/20/125837/422

Opinion

''What the President Ordered in This Case Was a Crime"

John Nichols
Mon Jan 23, 12:31 PM ET

The Nation -- While Judge Sam Alito's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee has confirmed that he is not one of their number, a dwindling cadre of public servants still take seriously the dictates of the Constitution and the intents of it authors. And there is no more serious dictate of the document -- and no more solidly established intent -- than the one that requires the Congress to serve as a check and a balance against the excesses of the executive branch. Most particularly in a time of war, the founders intended for the Congress to question, challenge and constrain the president and his aides so that never again would Americans be subjected to the illegitimate, unwarranted and illegal dictates of a King George.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060123/cm_thenation/151824

[wishlist]

1. "If we can bomb houses, surely we can wiretap" said Bay Buchanan today

Interesting analogy/justification on Good Morning America from right wing spokeswoman Bay Buchanan that if we can bomb houses, surely we can wiretap to fight terrorists! Rather shocking to me, since her statement reveals the right wing dismissal of high potential for innocent people to be casualties.

[Village Idiot]

4. Apart from the WTC, the WH isn't bombing US houses...

[WePurrsevere]

6. Was she comparing bombing houses in Iraq to wiretapping Americans on US

soil? That wildly twisted nonsense has a familiar "feel" to it... is she related that RW nut Pat Buchanan?

[rodeodance]

2. He and his gang have taken the high road--distracting from the 'illegal'

part of this issue.

[LiberalinNC]

3. It's the same ole crap, terrorism, terrorism, terrorism!

I'm sick to death of this idiot using terrorism as an excuse - I laughed last night when ABC news had him say "I'm the one who will lead us against the war of terrorism"...I think he has that back wards - he's the one leading us into it!

[WePurrsevere]

5. Spying on an American Citizen sans a warrant is unconstitutional & illegal

For pete's sake they spied on QUAKERS in Vermont. How much more absurd can this get?