DLC has a point.....

[HardWorkingDem]

On the front page of DU, there is a story about how the Dems have to be careful about this wiretapping controversy and for once, the DLC is correct. For example, if it is not clearly shown that Bush's wiretapping program tapped the phones of ordinary Americans or people that truly should not have been spied on, we might not be able to win on this issue.

If the Bushies can successfully sell that this program is controversial but all they people they spied on were somehow "linked" to terrorism, the persuadable American voters people are not going to care about who was caught up in this tapping.

We cannot have rumors of Quakers, Peta and Greenpeace being monitored - it must be SHOWN that they were caught up in Bush's wiretapping.

AND this is not a post supporting the Bushies use of this program, only pointing out pragmatic political points.