MoveOn.org Slams Democrats for Passing Domestic Spying Bill

  Let me say once again that this program was not, and is not, a domestic spying program in the first place, but that is the way it has been presented to the American people, so it is the term I will continue to use.

  Last week the president signed a bill passed by the house and the senate that continues the foreign surveillance program. For my take on this you can read this. The quick version of my take is, if the Democrats were elected on a mandate, and if the president was spying on innocent Americans, they would never have passed this bill.

  Now the ultra-liberal group, MoveOn.org is slamming the Democrats.

A liberal advocacy group is blasting the Democrat-run Congress for giving the Bush administration “more unchecked power to wiretap Americans without a warrant.”

President Bush “used fear to intimidate lawmakers” into passing the Protect America Act last week — “and it worked,” said MoveOn.org in a message to its supporters.

  Where is this fear that moveon.org is talking about? Did the president threaten them with violence and force them to vote his way? What are they talking about?

“Enough is enough. We have to send a strong message to Congress that there is no trade-off between fundamental liberties and security,” MoveOn.org said on Tuesday.

“Preserving our Constitution is essential to our security — we can’t lead on freedom around the world when we’re actively undermining the rule of law at home.”

  MoveOn.org and the like are the base of the Democrat party, and they will not be happy until the Democrats cut off funding for the war, impeach Bush and Cheney, and ensure the defeat of America.

MoveOn.org said Democrats capitulated to the White House because they were afraid of being seen as weak on national security — and because they think that most voters “don’t really care about constitutional freedoms.”

MoveOn.org announced on Tuesday it is launching an American Freedom Campaign – a long-term effort to “keep the pressure on Congress and make sure they fix this mess instead of making these powers permanent.” The reforms included in the Protect America Act expire in six months, unless Congress renews them.

“It’s Congress’s job to act as a check on the president’s authority — not as a rubber-stamp. They have to know that we’re watching them and we’re demanding real accountability for this overreaching president,” MoveOn.org said.

  This is where the real problem lies with the Democrat party. They ARE weak on defense and they know it. They want to try and appear tough on defense, and this really goes against what their base cares about. Their base just wants to surrender in Iraq and hang Bush as a war criminal. Mainstream America wants to win in Iraq, and believe we will, the left wants to lose.

  The Democrats have to try and straddle the fence between both sides, and the far left will have none of it. This is what I believe will ulitimately be the unraveling of the left. If they pull off the surrender in Iraq, they will lose mainstream America and keep their base. If they don’t, they will maybe keep mainstream America, and lose their base.

  It’s actually kind of fun (in a sadistic kind of way), to watch the Democrats twist in the wind trying to talk out of both sides of their mouth.