Van Os Blasts Wimpy Dems On Wiretap Bill

Last week, the some of our Democrats in Congress knuckled under to Bush again, and let him pass a wiretapping bill that further erodes American liberties. I was going to write a scathing post attacking the political cowardice of these Democrats, but David Van Os beat me to it. Since he says it better that I could, I'm reprinting the e-mail that Van Os sent on the subject.

On Friday, August 3, 2007, the House and Senate, both under Democratic leadership, enacted a bill that gives the egomaniacal president and vice president one of their fondest desires, to be able to wiretap Americans' electronic communications without warrants describing specifically the places to be searched and objects of the search as the Fourth Amendment requires. In normal times we would have been able to assume the federal courts would surely invalidate such a bill on constitutional grounds.

However, with John Roberts Bush and Samuel Alito Bush having joined Anton and Clarence on the Supreme Court, we cannot indulge in such an assumption.

I am sure glad the brave and noble seven Democratic Senators saved the right to filibuster judicial nominees so they would have an excuse not to deny Bush his appointees. I am sure glad we busted our tails for Nick Lampson and Ciro Rodriguez so they could help the Bushites bust the Constitution. I am sure glad the people elected a Democratic majority to the House so that Nancy Pelosi could whine about Bush vetoes -- when in this case it was not necessary to pass anything.

The hell with them all. I'm sick to death of their prevaricating and excuse--making. We already had a Senate and House full of Bushite Republican lemmings who had spent six solid years betraying the Constitution. Millions of Americans were full of high hopes that the changes in leadership of the House and Senate that took place in November 2006 would finally give the Constitution a fighting chance. Yet the Bushite Police State and Bushite War have continued without skipping a beat.

Party loyalty should never, ever trump the Bill of Rights of the American people. The Constitution is the special possession of all the American people; not just Democrats, not just Republicans, and not even just people who vote in most elections.

We are in a time of acute domestic crisis in which the Constitution is under relentless assault by the gangster members of an ongoing criminal conspiracy masquerading as our government. In this time of crisis the Constitution and the public good -- not political game boarding -- must become every citizen's foremost consideration.

Speaking as a lifelong Democrat, I say that every damned one of the Democratic traitors to the Constitution who have continued to vote more police--state power to Cheney and Bush need to be challenged in the Democratic Primary by Fighting Democrats who will exercise steel spines on behalf of our Constitution. Speaking to my fellow citizens and friends in the Republican Party, you must do the same in your Primary.

Oh yes, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senate Campaign Committee -- keep your whining, sniveling solicitations away from my door.

David Van Os