Lugar Supports Investigation Of Bush’s Spying Program

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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/01/lugar-supports-hearings/

BLITZER: So you want hearings? You want hearings?

LUGAR: I do. I think this is an appropriate time, without going back and should the president have ever tried to listen to a call coming from Afghanistan, probably of course. And in the first few weeks we made many concessions in the Congress because we were at war and we were under attack.

We still have the possibility of that going on so we don’t want to obviate all of this, but I think we want to see what in the course of time really works best and the FISA Act has worked pretty well from the time of President Carter’s day to the current time.

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1. Wow -- a Republican with some historical perspective

it's the old-school Republicans and Democrats vs. the Constitution Shredders.

[H2O Man]

2. Not good

for the White House.

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7. he may also be a legitimate face to put on another Republican coverup inve

I doubt that Republicans will honestly investigate their leader, and I can’t believe it will come to pass until I see it. I guess I am too cynical, but I won’t be satisfied - and I don’t think the nation deserves any less - until Bush&Co are run out of office and jailed.

[Independent_Liberal]

3. Lugar becoming a Goldwater Republican?

Nice to see more joining the ranks who want investigations (Specter, Hagel, Snowe, Graham, etc.).

[Independent_Liberal]

4. BTW, hasn't Trent Lott jumped ship?

I wouldn't be surprised if he joins in.

[Indykatie]

5. Lugar is My Senator

and I think he is an honorable man. I am no big fan of either he or Bayh though.

[salin]

8. I would say that in the Reagan years he was honorable.

I watched him buck the party while I worked on the Hill. HOwever something odd has happened since bushjr was elected. He voices concerns (as he always honorably did in the past) - but now he invariably, in the end, votes for bushco. Like he has no conscience when it comes time to vote. He isn't doing it for the election (he would be elected regardless of his vote on ANYTHING these days.) So the disconnect between his vocal criticism of bush policies - and his lockstep voting for bushco - is rather jarring.

[salin]

6. Right. For years Lugar has "voiced" questions/reason... but in the end

he votes like a loyal bush-soldier. Evidence the nomination for UN Secretary of John Bolton.

My senator wasn't like this in the eighties - he had an independent streak from the Reagan Admin in the eighties - back when he voiced some tentative opposition... and then voted upon those stands.

Now, however, he is unexplicably unprincipled in these matters. Why is beyond anyone in this state's explanation. He is a shoe-in for reelection so it isn't a pandering to red-state voters thing...

All that said - don't pay attention to ANY criticism from Lugar as meaning anything about harbingers of GOP dissent from Bush. Lugar has become all talk but then all Bush saddle.

[Sadie5]

9. Lugar has done this before

Says something against his own, then votes party line. He has all of his playmates there in Wash. to help him, Quayle Goldsmith, etc. I remember when he was mayor of Indy, long time ago.