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Sunday, August 06, 2006

The Republican agenda: Be afraid. Be very afraid
Posted by Jill | 3:36 PM
Fear is all the RNC has to run on this year, and frankly, it's getting a bit old:

Mehlman said that if the Democrats win control of Congress in the Nov. 7 midterm elections, party leaders will stop the National Security Agency from eavesdropping on foreign terrorists and will pursue impeachment of the president.

"America faces a critical question," Mehlman said. "Will we elect leaders who recognize we're at war and want to use every tool to win it, or politicians who would surrender important tools we need to win?"

He singled out House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.

"As foreign jihadists call into the United States, do we use [NSA] technology to stop sleeper cells before they hit us? Or do we surrender use of this technology, as Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean would have us do?"


Actually, no Democrat has demanded that the president surrender use of NSA technology. They just oppose sweeping surveillance of all Americans on the off chance that a terrorist (or Democrat) may be caught. No one, not even Democrats, opposes monitoring terrorists. In fact, it was a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who somehow managed to thwart terrorist attacks against the U.S. on New Year's Even 1999 -- without mass surveillance of all communications of all Americans.

That Mehlman is ratcheting up the fear card yet again just shows how desperate Republicans are. It will be interesting to see if Americans allow themselves to be fooled again by an Administration headed by a guy who attacked Iraq without even knowing that Sunni and Shi'a Muslims weren't the same.
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