Maybe the Dems know another hit is in the makings and do not want to

[rainy]

be blamed for not allowing the admin. to evesdrop. Bush and Co. will scream if only we had the information that the dems denied us we could have stopped it. It seems that the Dems are afraid. Look at what happened to other dems when this admin was desperate. I think some know another "terrorist attack" is on its way.

[Dhalgren]

1. I don't doubt that this malignant government is capable of doing this,

but how will the Bush-Republicans explain an attack on the "Homeland" under Bush's dictatorial control? Won't this point up his failures even more?

[rainy]

3. They'll say the dems tied too much of Gonzaleses time in hearings

keeping him from his job or some other nonsense. They will find an excuse to blame everyone but themselves. And the media will go along with it.

[liberal N proud]

2. When the bu$h regime allows or plans another attack, they will blame the Democrats anyway

The Democrats in Congress don't ever get it. No matter what they do, they will get blamed for it right up to and including forfeiting the Constitution.

[Nite Owl]

4. Why didn't the dems

pass their bill and tell him the same thing? He didn't sign it, it would be wholly his fault.

[Jim__]

5. Accepting your premise, why doesn't bush just demand total dictatorial power.

The same rationale applies. If the dems don't give it to him, and we're hit again, he just blames them.

At some point, and I think we're far past that point, you have to make a stand.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. So why keep it a secret?

What possible good does it do to not let the American people know there is an imminent terrorist attack?

bushco has spent 6 years trying to make us believe we were under the threat of an attack at any time. If they have intelligence that indicates it is definitely happening, why not tell us?

It doesn't make any sense.

[treestar]

19. Hysteria

Not that I agree, but that's how they'd see it.

And we the people have proved nothing if not that we are prone to hysteria and finger pointing rather than taking matters into our own hands lately.

[BlooInBloo]

7. I'm not a big fan of the make-shit-up method of defending Congress' bad decisions.

[BuyingThyme]

8. That was the hit.

[MrCoffee]

9. there was a hit. the Fourth Amendment took it in throat.

[blues90]

10. I thought the same thing

But they will blame the Dems no matter what . I don't know why the Dems cave or will not expose the truth if they know there is an attack coming . All I can coclude is the Dems have things of their own to hide and are being blackmailed or they are part of the same problem being a one party system and this is all show for 2008 elections , they do want to win , americans are all about winning and the hell with the methode used .

[bamacrat]

11. "If" we get "hit" again.....

Well I dont know, but it will be bad, I wouldnt put anything past these things. If they do orchestrate another 9/11 like attack, the obvious excuse is we are overstretched militarily to respond or protect. WHich will bring about the draft.

[ProSense]

12. And they are going to find out about it by listening to the conversation between two Americans,

one overseas and one stateside?

[frylock]

13. bushco was eavesdropping pre 911..

and that didn't prevent jack shit. Of course the Dems are always willing to point that out every chance they get. What's that? Oh yeah, they don't. In fact, they don't say shit.

[aquart]

14. Thank you for your concern.

Disinformation is always a useful tactic. Spreading panic is good, too. Applause, applause.

[rainy]

15. Congress was directly threatened. Just like in the anthrax case.

"In any case, Democrats said they had been left in an untenable position. They could either allow for a vote on the broader Republican proposals that were certain to pass, the Democrats said, or they could leave for the summer recess having passed no new security measure at a time when administration officials were pointing to potential threats from Al Qaeda, including a report in The Roll Call last week that terrorists were possibly focusing on Congress itself."

This was in the NY Times today.

[Forkboy]

16. Then they would be both cowards and traitors.

[spanone]

17. there will ALWAYS be a 'hit in the making' that's the terror of terrorism.

[treestar]

18. IA, the only reason Dems would go along with this now is that

they actually believe it is necessary to prevent an attack. Otherwise Chimpy's lack of political capital would mean they could do what is right. It might still be right - but the fear could be getting to them. They are insiders, maybe Chertoff's "gut" feeling is like a warning to them - and the fact Al Qaeda is said to be regrouping, etc. * got us into this mess but getting out of it is another matter (and the Dems know the MSM is going to blame them regardless).

[rainy]

20. Yes, even Keith is on to this. As he mentioned last night that

this bill is coming up again in 6 months he said "there will obviously be more "chatter" then too." Like he always says when the admin wants something they play the fear card. Terror, terror, terror. And they win.

[Perry Logan]

21. Everyone put on your tin hats and get under the bed.

Best 9/11 Truth Movement debunking sites--will cure a normal person in just a few minutes:

http://www.911myths.com/
http://www.debunking911.com/
http://wtc7lies.googlepages.com/home

[L. Coyote]

22. Definitively, the DEms know BUSH has enraged millions of people.

Let's see. We have killed half a million people, or some such estimate.

Guess what. Someone might attack US. No surprise there, and probably inevitable.

I said it in the 80s, back when Reagan started bombing in the Near East, "We don't get to decide when the wars we start end, or WHERE."