Baloney by Bush

President Bush and Vice President Cheney are making aggressive defenses of the administration’s controversial wire tapping program that has bubbled up into the public eye in the past week. Their latest push is to have the judges on the court that is supposed to evaluate the need for warrants in such circumstances briefed so that they may learn why this program is constitutional.

After they’ve brow beaten these judges, they’re hoping the controversy will go away. But since one judge has already resigned in protest, they have to limit their lashing of the others at sub torture levels. This technique worked so well on CIA analysts in the run up to the Iraq War it’s no wonder they’re trying it again. No pressure, you understand, just stand over them and glare at them till they get it.

The president is also aggressively moving to defend the program by indicating that his most solemn duty is to protect the country. I came across a letter to the editor of the New York Times that deflates that notion far better than I ever could. Mr. Jeff Bialik of San Rafael, California gently points out that Mr. Bush’ most solemn responsibility is to uphold his oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of The United States.”

I was then going to rip Mr. Bush for his false logic in defense of his position, but here too I found someone who had already done the job better than I ever could. Ellen Goodman in her column, Bush’s False Choices, in today’s Boston Globe strips back the false logic and shows the president for what he is: a president infected with grandiosity. I invite you to click on this clear eyed analysis.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/12/23/bushs_false_choices?p1=email_to_a_friend

Enough said for today!

Blog on!

Wild Bill