The Right State

Today we learn that the NSA has been collecting phone records of millions of Americans, not listening to their phone calls, just who they are calling. Following the outrage from the MSM and the more liberal members of Congress, President Bush has come out with the following statement.

“We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of innocent Americans.”

Let me get this straight. Lets say a terrorist from Iran makes calls all over the world setting up attacks. Now lets say he calls someone in the United States named Ahmed. Ahmed then calls several other people. According to the MSM and some members of Congress, the NSA is not only prohibited from finding out who terrorist called, but they can not even find out who Ahmed called. This is pure stupidity.

Like any other red blooded American, I am fiercely protective of my privacy. I don’t want my phone tapped or the government even knowing who I am calling. But since I make NO international calls, since I neither received nor called any terrorists, I do not have to worry about governmental invasion of my privacy. This is another case of the Democrats playing politics with our national security just like they did with the NSA wiretapping issue. And of course by the Democrat’s side is their ever willing accomplices, the MSM, who are desperate to bring down this President even at the expense of the security of this nation. The MSM tried their best to make an issue of the NSA wiretapping to no avail. The American people realize there are people out there who hate us and wish to do us harm. So of course we want to know who the terrorists are talking to.

NSA is the same spy agency that conducts the controversial domestic eavesdropping program that had been acknowledged earlier by Bush. The president said last year that he authorized the NSA to listen, without warrants, to international phone calls involving Americans suspected of terrorist links. (bold added for emphasis)

Domestic wiretapping, give me a break. If one side is international, it is an international phone call. This is just one more reason why the Democrats can not be trusted with the security of this country. What people like Dick Durbin and Nancy Pelosi are counting on is the lack of knowledge of the American people on the wiretapping issue. So far most people seem to be aware of the necessity of the NSA conducting these searches for the terrorists. But I do not expect neither the MSM nor the Democrats to give up soon. After all, there is an election to be won, stolen, or whatever. This issue, even though it is false, as good an issue for them as any. Especially since the Democrats have no solution to anything except: cut and run, doom and gloom.

Tags: Bias, National Elections, Politics by Chuck
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In today’s New York Times Michiko Kakutani takes a very biased look at all the books written about the Bush administration and comes up with this conclusion.  In his view Bush has…

 “point to ways in which this administration has discarded past precedent, and illuminate its penchant for circumventing traditional processes of policy development and policy review.”

I know I should not be, but I am still amazed how the Old Gray Lady can do such biased research and then believe people will not see it.  Anytime someone selectively picks out certain books to make their point about this administration, it is bias.  When books by David Frum are quoted, the quotes are picked very selectively painting the picture the writer wants.  The crazy thing is, the author does not even attempt to hide the bias.  Words like “embattled,” “ideological” are thrown around which set the tone against the subject.  Then comes this:

…also underscore related predispositions on the part of this White House: an appetite for big, visionary ideas, imposed from the top down; an eagerness to centralize decision making in the executive branch; and a tendency to shrug off the advice of experts, be they military experts, intelligence experts or economic experts.

In retrospect, these patterns underlie recent complaints from more than half a dozen retired generals that civilian policymakers at the Pentagon ignored the advice of military officers, and new charges by two C.I.A. veterans that the Bush administration selectively ignored crucial intelligence assessments about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Now we finally get to the point.  It is all about the six retired generals who are critical of the President’s reason for going to war and his conduct of the war.

Now lets link all of this together to show the President is not listening to anyone and dismisses anyone who does not agree with him.

And it’s partly a reflection of an ideological outlook: a determination, in the wake of 9/11, to amp up presidential power, which many conservatives believe was diminished after Watergate; and a relativistic view of experts as bean counters beholden to the liberal establishment and status quo, a perspective linked with this White House’s inclination to characterize everyone from reporters to members of the uniformed military to global-warming scientists as agenda-driven interest groups.

So if the George Bush does not listen to anyone who pushes unproven discarded agenda driven liberal ideas like global-warming, then he is the one who is ideologically driven.  Wow!  And then to say that it is only conservatives who believe Watergate diminished presidential power.  It did.  It is a proven fact.  Not until Ronald Reagan did presidents have any semblance of power.  The War Powers Act was pushed through over Nixon’s veto.  Gerald Ford had no power.  Carter…well, he had no power to begin with.

And then comes this idiotic statement:

In “The Right Man,” Mr. Bush’s former speechwriter David Frum boasts that the president’s post-9/11 decisions “discarded thirty-five years of American policy in the Middle East and repudiated the foreign policies of at least six of the previous seven U.S. presidents.”

Note to Kakutani, the reason Bush discarded the foreign policy of the last six presidents is because they no longer worked.  We were attacked by radicals from the Middle East.

I am not even going to say anything about the rest of the story except to say the story is gets worse the further you get into it.  He quotes and misquotes people like Richard Clarke, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau (who broke the ‘domestic wiretapping’ story), and others as proof of how George Bush just decided all on his own without taking advice from anyone to go to war in Iraq and even ignored expert advice.

The New York Times writes stories like this and then wonders why they are losing subscribers.  Anyone who takes anything this paper say as truth today is really delusional.  I would recommend this story only to those conspiracy theorists who will believe anything bad about our President.  Not worth the time reading.

Tags: Bias, Iraq, Politics, War by Chuck
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