Wall Street Journal to GW: "Thank You for Wiretapping" . Series! O.M.G.

Thank You for Wiretapping
Why the Founders made presidents dominant on national security.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST

Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold wants to be President, and that's fair enough. By all means go for it in 2008. The same applies to Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who's always on the Sunday shows fretting about the latest criticism of the Bush Administration's prosecution of the war on terror. But until you run nationwide and win, Senators, please stop stripping the Presidency of its Constitutional authority to defend America.

That is the real issue raised by the Beltway furor over last week's leak of National Security Agency wiretaps on international phone calls involving al Qaeda suspects. The usual assortment of Senators and media potentates is howling that the wiretaps are "illegal," done "in total secret," and threaten to bring us a long, dark night of fascism. "I believe it does violate the law," averred Mr. Feingold on CNN Sunday.

The truth is closer to the opposite. What we really have here is a perfect illustration of why America's Founders gave the executive branch the largest measure of Constitutional authority on national security. They recognized that a committee of 535 talking heads couldn't be trusted with such grave responsibility. There is no evidence that these wiretaps violate the law. But there is lots of evidence that the Senators are "illegally" usurping Presidential power--and endangering the country in the process.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007703

OM-EFFING-G.

"There is no evidence that these wiretaps violate the law."

I mean BIG fucking LIE.

as long as the money keeps rolling in for the corporations that keep them going.

:wow:

...the founders feared an autocrat, like King George. If anything, the designation of the Congress as holder of the purse and as the body which declared war is very illuminating as to original intent. It is only the 200+ years since the Constitution was written where Presidential power has been "enhanced."

But then, we are no longer interested in facts, but rather advocacy. The tell tale sign is how these same "scholars" will completely change the tune when a Democrat is in office. Suddenly, it will be that the President has "run roughshod over our civil liberties."

blah...blah...blah

"535 talking heads couldn't be trusted with such grave responsibility."

You can't trust the pointy heads in the Universities.
You can't trust the Judiciary.
You can't trust the Legislature.
But you can trust George and of course you can trust the 'free market'.

The WSJ editorial page has been openly fascist for years. They yearn for a return to the Gilded Age, or perhaps feudalism. Nazi sympathizers, each and every WSJ editorial writer. Screw 'em.