Reply #69: I read your post just fine..

[sendero]

... and I disagree with you, the DLC and anyone who thinks likes you. And I'm in a shoot-the-messenger kindof mood. And I offered a better solution to the problem than rolling over yet again and letting the other side frame the issue, WHICH IS PART AND PARCEL OF THE PROBLEM.

When the DLC says "be careful", history shows that means "shut up cuz if you piss off the administration it's bad, bad, bad". That thinking is wrongheaded and is as responsible as anything for the fact that Dems are getting nowhere. I reject it outright.

Perhaps I could have been more tactful, on that point I will concede. I just have a low threshold for this sort of advice, which IMHO has hamstrung our party. Bush should be polling in the 20s by now and the only reason he's not is that Dems are afraid to point out just how rotten he is.

The Dems should be screaming this from the rooftops: "the FISA warrants are no impediiment whatsoever to the surveillance of terrorism-related communications. None, not any". And "who is Bush listening to that he cannot tell a judge as required by our constitution and laws?"