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April 08, 2006
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same
Ah yes, Republicans - or, in the case of Stantis I should say "conservatives" - loves them some Ronnie Reagan. Now that W has sent the country down the shitter, guys like Stantis are starting to disown THEIR President Bush. Of course they didn't protest when W lied us into war, broke the law for their own political benefit, or ran up the deficits - because that's all stuff good ol' Cowboy Ronnie did himself. But spying on Americans? Damn W - damn him to hell!
So Ronnie has returned...FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (thanks CJo for the first ever Shrubville catchphrase) to stand up for Americans' right not to be spied on by the President. Of course if Reagan had used Bush's excuse - I'm the King, er I mean President, I can do whatever I want - Stantis would still be sucking his you know what. But apparently spying on us is JUST GOING TOO FAR! Ahem. I guess the deaths of over 2300 servicemen and women in a war based on lies is acceptable in the "conservative" playbook.
Anywho, I hope Stantis took careful note of a story that got buried in the headlines this past week. While Bush was being outed as having declassified information and had it leaked to the press in order to discredit his opponents - who were proving that he was lying to go to war - Attorney General Gonzales was offering up a quote of his own.
From the Washington Post:
In response to a question from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) during an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, Gonzales suggested that the administration could decide it was legal to listen in on a domestic call without supervision if it were related to al-Qaeda.
"I'm not going to rule it out," Gonzales said.
So when Stantis wrote this strip, he was outraged - outraged I tell you! - that Bush was simply spying on American calls to "terrorists" outside the country. Now we find out that they're probably wiretapping everybody, so Carmen's punchline is even more possible. Let's face it: George W. Bush and his cronies are spying on any of us. Period. And there ain't nothing we can do about it, because Bush is president and the Republicans in the Congress and the conservative Supreme Court are letting him get away with it.
Let me be clear here: we all want the government to spy on terrorists. That's a given. And if they've got enough evidence to justify it, I don't have a problem with them spying on Americans - JUST GET A WARRANT. FISA allows just for that - hell, you can wiretap an American without a warrant beforehand. However, within 72 hours you have to tell the courts just why you're spying on them. That's only fair. But not to W and his goons - they want to spy on whoever they want whenever they want, and they don't have to tell anybody. Who needs "plumbers" to break into a hotel when you can just monitor and record your politic opponents' every conversation? And people actually think the Democrats have a chance to win in 2006 and 2008. Not likely when the deck is stacked in favor of the illegal administration.
Sorry, I went off on a bit of a rant there. The reality is STANTIS'S President really is just like Ronald Reagan - Reagan just didn't have the balls to say he should spy on everyone because he didn't have a Republican Congress to let him do it. You don't think Grampa Ronnie wouldn't have spied on Americans if he got the chance? Please - if that's the case, I've got some land in Grenada I'd like to sell you that some Contra friends of mine own. Word is Saddam used it as a summer home.
NOTE: I did NOT make the graphic at the top of the page - check out this guy if you want to compliment his spelling.
