It’s hard to imagine someone doing a worse job on terrorism than this President. We’ve had two major terrorist attacks on the United States(*); not only didn’t we catch either of the perpetrators of these foul crimes, but we didn’t change the system that allowed them to happen, or punish even one of the officials whose dereliction of duty cost this country so much.

Censure now, impeach later. Iraq, Katrina, 9/11, Afghanistan, torture, spying on Americans, compulsive lying: each of these alone is worth a trial. Together, the systematic pattern of fraud and incompetence makes a case that’s impossible to refute.

(* — give up on what the second one was? Seems that everyone has forgotten the anthrax attacks of 2001 — which isn’t surprising considering that the media simply stopped talking about it when it was discovered that this was American-made, “weapons-grade” anthrax from Fort Detrick.)

I challenge any of you fearful war-mongers to tell me how a well-financed terrorist organization of a couple of thousand members can threaten the nation to such an extent that an extraordinary and unprecedented consolidation of power in the executive and the violation of political rights and civil liberties (apart from the lies, corruption and abuse of power that seem to go hand-in-hand with these other actions) are necessary compared to, say, the Cold War where we faced the old Soviet Union with its sophisticated intelligence infrastructure, modern military and nuclear weapons that could (and we did come to the brink) wipe us off the map in a matter of minutes? Or how it compares to World War II where both Japan and Germany-two of the largest economies and military powers in the world at the time-were dedicated to our destruction and waged total war against us?

This is simply a power grab under the guise of “national security,” and if you trust the Feds on this…you ain’t no conservative!

When Americans excercise their freedom and/or try to uphold the rule of law, THE TERRORISTS WIN!

Maybe if you’d use your new Medicare Plan B benefit to get some eardrops, you could remove that big ol’ plug of GOP earwax you can’t hear though.

It’s a cut and dried legal case. If Bush found, honestly, that FISA was insufficient in these times, it would have been easy, in the immediate post-9/11 days, to get the act expanded or even thrown out, I suppose (which would have been a bad thing, to me). But he didn’t do that. Instead, he pretended to be following the FISA act, having sent lots of requests to the court all this time. He also said, numerous times, that wiretaps were only happening “with a warrant,” which he then admitted to us, was not true for years. So it was a purposeful and deliberate deception of Congress and the American people. If Congress lets this stand, they’re fools; and I would say the same for the cowardly Dems who refuse to cosign.