Take bin Laden 'seriously,' Bush says
Here's the thing: I can't tell which one is stupider -- Bush (for saying it) or the traditional media (for reporting it with a straight face).
This is the POTUS who said "You know, I just don't spend that much time on him to be honest with you." Then when Kerry cried bullshit, Bush denied he said it, winking while accusing Kerry of "one of those ex-agger-ations." The traditional media reported it all with a straight face.
“When he says he’s going to hurt the American people again, or try to, he means it,” Bush told reporters after visiting the NSA, where the surveillance program is based. “I take it seriously, and the people of NSA take it seriously.”Really?
So that means we're elevating the threat level...?
No. Not really.
Maybe this is kind of the like the PDB from Aug. 2001: "Bin Laden determined to strike at United States." We know what happened after that. First, nothing. Then all hell broke loose. When it was revealed at the 9/11 hearings, the media reported all of that with a straight face.
Meanwhile...four US Senators seemed to have read the US Constitution, including that part about separation of powers and checks & balances:
“If you or officials in your administration believe that FISA, or any law, does not give you enough authority to combat terrorism, you should propose changes in the law to Congress,” wrote Sens. Harry Reid, Edward Kennedy, Richard Durbin and Russ Feingold. “You may not simply disregard the law.”Bwahahaha!
I think that boat has left the dock, gentlemen.
Seriously, for that kind of letter to mean anything, there has to be an implied threat of action behind it. And the Democrats have no way of doing that because they are the minority party.
The Legislative branch majority, on the other hand, has the Constitutional authority (and responsibility) to exercise these checks against an out-of-balance Executive branch:
- Sidetrack the President's agenda
- Cut off funding to relevant programs
- Hold oversight hearings
- Impeach the President
Why? Because the Executive would know that one of the three branches was a weakling and a buck-passer.
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Yes and yes again, whyz.ache.err, I'll own up to it. There is a ton of personal animus in my campaign to get the "smirking chimp", also known as "dum'ya botch", impeached. It's not at all like I don't have cause. For one thing, what he's peddling as, get this, "terrorist surveillance" ain't Shinola.
I'm hoping you'll grant me the small favor of patience. I would like you, at first, to read straight through to the end of this text, without clicking on any of the enclosed hyperlinks.
In case, you'd like to know, the hyperlink to your blog, specifically, "Ara Rubyan's E Pluribus Unum", is found at the third hyperlink on the list below ... ah, please remember, no clicking until AFTER reading the entire text.
Perusing your blog, I believe I arrived at what is a reasonable inference. That is, both you and your readers concur with my interpretation of "terrorist surveillance". Wood'ja (?) buh-leave! A civilian like me, and up to his ears in credit card debt, could come up with a game plan to snag Osama bin Ladin.
As for my plan for capturing Osama, again I should like to ask to refrain from clicking on any enclosed hyperlink, until AFTER you've read the entirety of the text.
http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/01/osama-and-our-president-dumass-botch_20.html
The hyperlink just above this sentence leads to my game plan. If you've gotten this far on the first read, without clicking on any of the enclosed hyperlinks, congrats!
Whatever the case, remind or prepare, please keep in mind that it's a good bet that everything else to snag bin Ladin has already been tried. I think it's time we tried drawing on one of the few activities Americans do better than any other national group, music and pizza delivery being among those few activities.
http://hewhoisknownassefton.blogspot.com/2006/01/danger-senator-specter-danger.html
oh, yeah, and here's the third hyperlink:
http://www.reachm.com/amstreet/states-writes.htm#MI
toodles
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.he who is known as sefton
oh, yes, surely, you've heard about the government "requesting" certain records about internet activity. oh, br'dah! ... cynical and skeptical lil'ole me, I'm smelling a rat in all that. Quite candidly, I have cause to suspect that more than compiling statistics on access to pornographic websites is involved.
oh, yeah, right after Hitler came to power, the German people were assured that, if they were innocent of untoward activity, they would have nothing to worry about ... yeah, right.
Incidentally, the second hyperlink leads to a piece that relates to governmental eavesdropping WITHOUT a warrant.
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January 26, 2006 02:18 PM