"It's all fruit" What are the odds of that little gem getting any airplay?

Some of the wilder donkeys talked about a possible Bush impeachment after the NSA program was revealed.

Oh, Joe Klein said that? Well then, I guess we can ignore the Congressional Research Service, and dozens and dozens of Constitutional scholars! Not to mention a raft of Republicans.

Whew, that's a relief.

Nancy Pelosi misleading? Tell me it isn't so! Oh whoa is me! What has this world come to when such an icon is misleading? I think Ace is just putting out propaganda, there is no way that Pelosi would ever be misleading.

Cheese and crackers, tubino. You are either the most reading challenged lefty troll around or just obtuse. I'm unsympathetic to either explanation by the way. Watsa matter, the big kids at the lefty sites won't let you play there?

From the 2002 decision by the FISA appellate court, which wrote:

We take for granted that the President does have that authority [to order warrantless surveillance for foreign intelligence gathering purposes], and, assuming that is so, FISA could not encroach on the President's constitutional power.

The CRS Report actually concluded they didn't have sufficient information for making a conclusive statement.

Whether an NSA activity is permissible under the Fourth Amendment and the statutory scheme outlined above is impossible to determine without an understanding of the specific facts involved and the nature of the President's authorization, which are for the most part classified.

As for the dozens of con scholars you cited, how many are not Democrats? There are Democrat con scholars who say the AQ spying is A-OK as well. So what's your point? If you're saying it's pretty easy to come up with naysayers about anything BushCo does, then I would agree; otherwise, not so much.

The donkeys are trying to walk on the ice and are falling down instead

It's not really self-defeating, it's quite simply the only chance they have to regain power. After years of screeching and nay-saying, there just isn't any way they can convince Americans that they are in fact serious about national defense.

No one would believe them. Even if one leader (tkae Lieberman for example) were to gut up, and tell it like it is, and convince America he is serious, we'd still say "but the rest of your loony pals aren't, so you can't get it done".

All they have is "bring the opposition down with scandals". That's their only shot.

Even though he occasionally gets something right, Joe Klein is a mojo-azzole...and still owes me fifteen bucks.

Somebody run with this:
In a letter to Bush, Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said the National Security Act requires the

heads of the various intelligence agencies to keep the entire House and Senate intelligence

committees "fully and currently informed of the intelligence activities of the United States."

Pelosi, knew about this. Pelosi knew the entire committee was not informed. Pelosi is a co-conspirator.

Former Carter Aide says it all:
Ken Bass, a Carter administration Justice Department official and an expert on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, said the issue of the president's inherent power has remained unresolved for decades.

The White House's analysis of presidential power is consistent with previous administrations, Bass said.