Back Talk

They walked out to begin a 12-day recess, and the President said, correctly, that by their refusal, they are “undermining the safety of the United States” and “making it harder to protect the American people.” One of the main sticking points for the DemPols is the clause that would shield from frivolous lawsuits telephone companies who provide our intelligence agencies with information about phone calls by persons on the terrorist watch list. Put aside for the moment the DemPols’ seemingly inherent tendency to misunderstand or underestimate the threat of terrorism, a pacifist ideology, and resistance to anything and everything President Bush attempts to accomplish. They foolishly believe we should surrender Iraq to al Qaida, that the surge failed, in spite of the facts, that we could come home, close the door on the way, the terrorists will leave us along, and we can live happily ever after in a Socialist wonderland. The crux of the matter is that the DemPols are all legal lizards who do not want to deny all the other lawyers out there the chance to make a few million on class action suites against the phone companies. The best defense this useless group could come up with to counter the President’s urgent request and angry response to their disregard of the country’s security was that Bush was engaging in election-year fear-mongering. The Senate passed a bill to replace the so-called "Protect America Act" that gave the government the ability to track enemy targets without a court order, but, again, Democratic lawmakers blocked it from coming to a vote. They said “it failed to adequately protect the privacy rights of American citizens.” By their actions, they are, instead, protecting al Qaida and the other terrorist cells around the globe.