Bush's Counterterror Proposals Could Be a Hard Sell--( But don't worry)

[lindashaw]

Rove is on the case!

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 President Bush (news - web sites), seeking still greater powers to fight terrorism, appears to have calculated that the renewed memories of the Sept. 11 attacks evoked by their second anniversary will be enough to outweigh rising concerns over civil liberties.

In the last several months, Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) proposed making more terrorism-related crimes eligible for the death penalty and making it more difficult for suspects to be released on bail, two critical components of the new initiative. But rather than using Mr. Ashcroft, a polarizing figure, to unveil the proposals, the White House decided to have Mr. Bush personally announce the plan on the eve of the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and at an early stage of the presidential campaign.

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Even Republicans with deep-seated concerns about expanding the government's counterterrorism authority said the timing made it difficult for them to speak out today without appearing insensitive to the memory of those killed on Sept. 11 and disloyal to President Bush.

"This is the president talking and not John Ashcroft," said a Republican Congressional aide, "and the fact is that we have to be as supportive as we can of the president and his efforts to combat terrorism."

Didn't I say he was good!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=3&u=/ap/20030911/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[bif]

1. Screw you George!

Don't insult the memories of those who perished on 9/11.What a fuckin' asshole!

[underpants]

2. When Dick Armey and Bob Barr join the ACLU.....

That's when you know you are Waaaaaaaaay out on the plank.

[atreides1]

3. I Wonder If Some Party Functionary

said the same thing about Hitler and his Enabling Act. As far as I'm concerned if Bush wants to combat terror, he needs to take his incompetent ass to the Afghan/Pakistani border and find Bin Laden.

This administration only has one thing on its agenda, and that is to
create a right-wing christian, theocratic, oligarchy. With the rich
in charge and the rest of us as their slave labor.

The day is coming when we will all have to make that decision, do we fight or do we lay down and die. For those who think that the next election is going to be honest, I have some beach front property in Arizona I'd like to sell to you. Lots of beach, just no ocean.

The deck is already stacked against us, and it gets worse everyday.
All of this optimism is great, I just don't think it's realistic, our
troops are being killed and wounded, but we never hear the whole story, and we won't.

So live in dream land if you wish, as for myself I'm getting prepared
if I'm wrong then I will come on and apologize, but if I'm right, there will be no way for the rest of you to say so.

Good luck, and I do hope that those with optimistic views prove to be correct.

"IT IS BETTER TO DIE ON YOUR FEET, THEN TO LIVE ON YOUR KNEES"

EMILIANO ZAPATA