Democrats Set to Expand Wiretapping Legislation

 As you can read in this article, the Democrats who before the last session of congress ended vowed to end the domestic spying program that the president implemented after 9/11. The only problem is that there is NO DOMESTIC SPYING PROGRAM for the Democrats to end. Now that they are in power they know that they cannot end a program that helps keep America safe, and that program is the FOREIGN SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM, otherwise spun by the Democrats as the domestic spying program. They knew all along that the president wasn’t spying on American citizens, they knew all along that people who were talking with suspected terrorists OVERSEAS were the ones being monitored. Only now that they are in power they cannot afford to admit it for dear of losing their base, so they have to spin it. And also extend it.

Two months after vowing to roll back broad new wiretapping powers won by the Bush administration, Congressional Democrats appear ready to make concessions that could extend some of the key powers granted to the National Security Agency.

Bush administration officials say they are confident they will win approval of the broadened wiretapping authority that they secured temporarily in August as Congress rushed toward recess, and some Democratic officials admit that they may not come up with the votes to rein in the administration.

  To quote that Mastercard, or American Express, or whatever commercial it is, this is priceless. Another broken promise by the Democrats. A promise by the way that the Democrats knew they couldn’t and didn’t want to deliver.

As the debate over the N.S.A.’s wiretapping powers begins anew this week, the emerging legislation reflects the political reality confronting the Democrats. While they are willing to oppose the White House on the conduct of the war in Iraq, they remain nervous that they will be labeled as soft on terrorism if they insist on strict curbs on intelligence gathering.

A Democratic bill to be proposed Tuesday in the House would maintain for several years the type of broad, blanket authority for N.S.A. wiretapping that the administration secured in August for just six months.

 There you have it in the first paragraph above, they are willing to oppose the president, but not willing to do anything about it. They are paper tigers, just as binLaden said after President Clinton cut and ran from Mogadishu. The only policy that the Democrats elaborate on is opposing the president, but when it comes to taking action against him they expose themselves as being on the wrong side of the issue or they would stop programs such as the foreign surveillance program which they have railed against.

 Their non-action on this issue and other issues as well do nothing but tell us they acknowledge that what the president is doing is right, even if they won’t say it.