The issue this year for the left is impeachment. The test run of this issue is censure of Bush on his Terrorist Surveillance Program.

The country is behind this program because they know we are at war and at risk of massive attack of the magnitude of 9-11 – or worse. The country has no problem monitoring the communications of Al Qaeda members, and if someone in the US or an American makes contact with a terrorist, allowing the continuation of the monitoring as evidence is gathered to see if the person here in the US or American citizen is ripe for a FISA warrant (which puts ALL communications of this US located person or American now under surveillance as opposed to just the communications with the terrorists).

The liberal left want to return to pre 9-11 and pretend we are not at war. Their obsession with forgetting about 9-11 has become maniacal. To the point were these folks are creating the impeachment litmus test. If there is any doubt notice the continued pressure and the knocking down of all attempts by national democrats to avoid or hide from this subject:

In order to generate further support for the Feingold Censure Resolution, numerous bloggers are encouraging everyone to pay an actual physical visit to their Senators’ local offices in order to urge support for censure. Anyone doing so is likely to encounter the two primary myths/excuses which have been concocted by Senators and others in order to justify their refusal to support the Resolution. They are both plainly false:

MYTH/EXCUSE NUMBER ONE: An investigation is needed before it can be known whether the President broke the law.

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This excuse for not taking a position on censure is not only false, but also outright illogical on its face. There are two distinct and independent issues raised by the NSA scandal:

ISSUE 1: Did the President break the law when he ordered warrantless eavesdropping on Americans?

ISSUE 2: What was the scope and extent of the President’s secret eavesdropping?

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Put simply, we don’t know the scope and extent of the President’s illegal eavesdropping, but we do know that the eavesdropping he ordered was illegal.

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MYTH/EXCUSE NUMBER TWO: Republicans want this scandal to persist because it benefits them politically.

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But all of that is just myth, pure delusion. The increasingly marginalized and radical views are those of Bush followers, not Bush opponents. The ethos of the country has changed not just on the margins, but fundamentally.

The hillarity of this is the left is starting to believe their own selective propaganda. The country does not find it illegal for the President to monitor our enemies at a time of war and pass leads to FISA that (a) turn out to be solid and (b) are wrapped up just right to get passed thge judicial dinosaurs on the FISC which will not take leads from the NSA as justification for warrants. What the left does not understand, but the national democrats do because this is now well known on the Hill, is the concept of Gorelick wall, which barred leads from intelligence going to law enforcement to PRE-EMPT and PREVENT attack, is still considered the logical rationalization of a dipstick.

No one in this country is going to buy the idiotic argument we risk our civil rights (minus the one for ‘life’) because leads on terrorist operations in the US are passed from the military to the FBI. Prior to 9-11 law enforcement was all focused on prosecution after the act. The legal theologians of civil liberties created the myth that prevention (i.e., detecting hints of a pending crime) was prejudicial to conviction. Somewhere it became ingrained in a lot of peoples’ minds that seeing the signals that a crime was possibly going to be committed was irrelevant and the law could not stop someone before the act.

Well, OK that works for speeding and stealing and a host of other crimes. But for acts of war like terrorism it is suicidal. So the Democrat leaders know damn well the nation will never allow a party hell bent on protecting terrorist communications on the slim possibility someone’s phone call may be mistakenly listened to at some time. Forget about it! But that is what the liberal maniacs want!