Democrats Need to Wake Up

You Democrats out there need to think twice about your choice of candidates in the upcoming election. From The New York Times:

Two months after vowing to roll back broad new wiretapping powers won by the Bush administration, Congressional Democrats appear ready to make concessions that could extend some of the key powers granted to the National Security Agency.

Bush administration officials say they are confident they will win approval of the broadened wiretapping authority that they secured temporarily in August as Congress rushed toward recess, and some Democratic officials admit that they may not come up with the votes to rein in the administration.

As the debate over the N.S.A.'s wiretapping powers begins anew this week, the emerging legislation reflects the political reality confronting the Democrats. While they are willing to oppose the White House on the conduct of the war in Iraq, they remain nervous that they will be labeled as soft on terrorism if they insist on strict curbs on intelligence gathering.

A Democratic bill to be proposed Tuesday in the House would maintain for several years the type of broad, blanket authority for N.S.A. wiretapping that the administration secured in August for just six months. But in an acknowledgment of civil liberties concerns, the measure would also require a more active role by the special foreign intelligence court that oversees the N.S.A.’s interception of foreign-based communications.

A competing proposal in the Senate, still being drafted, may be even closer in line with the administration's demands, with the possibility of including retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that took part in the N.S.A.'s once-secret program to wiretap without court warrants.

The Dems in Congress are every bit as morally corrupt as the Bush administration. They joined their Republican counterparts in voting for the Patriot Act and for giving Bush the go-ahead to invade Iraq. And now they're taking the next step toward a police state.

It's time you Democratic voters wake up to the fact that there is no functional difference between your leaders in Washington and the warmongering neocons. Whether you realize it or not, you're just as blinded by party politics as the Bush cultists.