So much for a new era of bipartisanship between the President and the newly elected Democratic majority in Congress. George Bush still has two years left in his presidency and the Republican majority in the House and Senate still has another month left of their term, so why are the Democrats so incensed that the President wants Congress to continue to work on his agenda? Maybe they have not changed after all. Congress is still expected to finish their work, lame duck or not.
Among those issues are the Terrorist Surveillance Act of 2006, bipartisan energy legislation, trade legislation, a federal spending bill and an agreement with India on civilian nuclear technology.
But the two most contentious issues facing the lame duck Congress will be the nomination of John Bolton as Ambassador of the UN and legislation to authorize the Terrorist Surveillance Act.
John Bolton was appointed to his post in a recess appointment which ends in January. The Democrats have never like John Bolton accusing him of lying to Congress and intimidating his coworkers. And yet he has been a staunch supporter of US interests at the UN. There are a few Republicans who do not support Bolton’s appointment to the world assembly, but most of them are RINOs like the lamed duck Senator from Rhode Island, Lincoln Chaffee. By the way, I consider Chaffee’s loss as one of the few high points to Tuesday’s election.
The Terrorists Surveillance Act (TSA) is truly another matter all together. Opposition to the TSA is almost entirely limited to the Democratic Party. Using names like the Domestic Surveillance Program and the Warrantless Wiretapping Act, the left along with the ACLU has tried to turn public opinion against this extremely powerful tool on terror by claiming the government is using it to spy on its own people. This could not be further from the truth. The bill authorizes the wiretapping of phone conversations between the US and suspected terrorists. Once again the left is not protecting this country and can not be trusted to protect us.
If you read and trust CNN, you may arrive at a different opinion. The writers do an okay job of telling what is going on between the Democrats and Republicans on these important issues confronting this nation, with two exceptions. First, they insinuate bipartisan opposition to both the appointment of John Bolton and the passage of the TSA. This could not be further from the truth. Most Republicans, with the exception of a very few RINOs, support Bolton’s appointment to the UN. There are even fewer Republicans coming out against the TSA. There is NOT bipartisan opposition against either one of them.
CNN is not the only paper to have a twisted vision of what the TRA is supposed to do. Although CNN finally acknowledges what the TSA does, the New York Times does not. In a scathing editorial, the paper takes a very dim very of the President’s plan for this lame duck session of Congress.
Without missing a beat, Mr. Bush made it clear that, for now, his idea of how to “put the elections behind us” is to use the Republicans’ last two months in control of Congress to try to push through one of the worst ideas his administration and its Republican allies on Capitol Hill have come up with: a bill that would legalize his illegal wiretapping program and gut the law that limits a president’s ability to abuse his power in this way. (snip)
… the wiretapping bill is simply outrageous, and it has no business being discussed in this lame duck session.
Illegal? Illegal? Says who? The writer then discusses the things the President want to ram through Congress. What a dork(s)!
(Back to CNN) Secondly, is the way CNN phrases what the TSA is supposed to do which is in the second paragraph of the article.
On the same day President Bush promised a new bipartisan Washington, he began efforts to get two of his most controversial decisions approved before the Democrats take over Congress.
Bush on Thursday submitted the nomination of John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and said he would like to move forward on legislation to authorize the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program. (emphasis added by TRS)
Only ater on, way down in the article do the writers say what the TRS really does:
The Terrorist Surveillance Act is likely to face stiff opposition in the Senate and House, as both parties have previously criticized the measure as unconstitutional.
The legislation would authorize the NSA to eavesdrop on phone calls between people in the United States and suspected terrorists overseas.
Okay, why could they say that at the beginning? An agenda maybe? Except both parties have not criticized the TSA as unconstitutional, only the Democrats have done that.
The very last line of the article wraps up how President Bush is reacting to the last election which is ‘full steam ahead.’ It is obvious how the Democrats feel. They are so used to blocking so many of the President’s measures for political purposes that they have trouble stopping now. The President wants to work together.
“The American people expect us to rise above partisan differences, and my administration will do its part.”
Its like the President is saying, ‘okay, you won, now let’s move on.’ And why not, there is work to be done.
Okay, Democrats. The ball is in your court. The question is, ‘what are you going to do about it?’
Tags: Democrats, Bias by Chuck
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