Ladies and gentlemen, your Republican president:
“At this moment, somewhere in the world, terrorists are planning a new attack on America. And Congress has no higher responsibility than ensuring we have the tools to stop them.”
Oh, really? Is that what you vowed in your oath of office? To ensure that the executive branch has the tools to stop an imagined terrorist attack? That’s a straight-up security over liberty argument right there. It doesn’t get much clearer, or more un-American, than that. Sam Adams would tar and feather this wretched charlatan that the Manhattan conservatives love so very much.
The only consolation is that both they and George Bush will go down in the annals of American history as utter failures. And when they whine about President Rodham, I, for one, will take great pleasure in reminding them that it was Bush’s fault – and therefore theirs – that she is in office and in possession of the executive-branch powers that she is abusing.