Bush's Special Powers
Durst, Will
Bush's Special Powers Off the Map Will Durst Your calls are important to us. For quality control and training purposes, the rest of your life will be monitored. While we were all distracted by...
...In previous trips to the court, 18,000 wiretaps were okayed and five turned down...
...Maybe he suspects NBC's David Gregory has a mole in the Justice Department...
...Perhaps a series of indignant letters to the editor might have better served the cause...
...I never knew King George the Third...
...Their game-saving Hail Mary...
...People, this isn't complicated...
...I don't want a President with special powers, I want a President who upholds the laws he swore to protect...
...It's very simple...
...He bugs them...
...Special powers...
...Any terrorist who doesn't know that talking on an open unencrypted line is probably not a good idea will not rise high in the ranks...
...Or maybe he just really believes that warrants are for sissies and he is above the law...
...So why didn't he go to the court...
...I only read about King George the Third...
...Then they tried to apply a couple coats of legal paint...
...He can't even ride a bicycle without falling off...
...All he needed to do was notify the FISA court within three days of when he began the eavesdropping...
...And stop with the silly charge that the person who told the press about the program is the real bad guy for bringing the existence of the NSA spying to the attention of Al Qaeda...
...His claim that during wartime he possesses special powers really gets me...
...Nobody knows why...
...Congress legalized the program when it authorized his use of force against terrorism...
...Not a bad return...
...How come reason isn't one of his special powers...
...While we were all distracted by Scooter and the Shooter, big time conservatives continued their campaign to sweep Bush's whole warrantless wiretapping thing under a rug of unnecessary complications...
...Flipped off the Founding Fathers...
...I want a President who realizes he's a civil servant, not a monarch...
...Political comic Will Durst thinks Bush is making less sense than a polar bear sipping a sloe gin fizz on a lawn chair...
...Maybe he got tired of the paperwork...
...King George was not a friend of mine, but you, sir, are no King George the Third...
...We're talking a .999 batting average here...
...Maybe he worried they wouldn't buy these specific warrants...
...Maybe he stretched the definition of terrorist to include Michael Moore's dog walker...
...First they claimed it was simply a matter of the President's prerogative: "He wants to bug somebody...
...Then they hammered it down with the big gun...
...He's not likely to be entrusted by Osama to do anything more important than run out to get the scorched coffee...
...He broke the law...
...If he's got special powers, what's his Kryptonite: logic...
...That's what a commander in chief does...
...As an old baseball man, Bush should know they keep you in the bigs with that...
...Which is expected to put a serious crimp in the traditional afternoon Muslim sardine break...
...Meanwhile, major Islamic clerics are calling for a boycott of all products made in Denmark...
...Peed on the Constitution...
...National security: "If you disagree with listening in on Al Qaeda, you're endangering the troops and giving the terrorists a back rub...
...Eighteen thousand out of eighteen thousand and five...
...Danish editorial cartoons intimating that Islam is a violent religion sparked worldwide protests during which buildings were set on fire and people were killed...
...The golden oldie...
Vol. 70 • April 2006 • No. 4
