"Bin Laden Helps Bush on Domestic Spying" (by Scaring the Sheep)

"The Bush administration has released a 42-page legal argument assembled by the Department of Justice saying it's just fine for the president to spy on Americans without warrants if the president thinks those Americans are talking to terrorists. It's pretty obvious some folks at DOJ had to pull some all-nighters to finish this assignment. Why the rush? It might have been because the Congressional Research Service unburdened itself of a 44-page study on the same subject Jan. 5. The CRS, a non-partisan creature of the Congress, basically concluded that the president has no such right. ...While early signals of the public attitude on this issue have been mixed, the White House has now received a major boost from a most unlikely source: Osama bin Laden. Without meaning to help the president, Osama has weighed in with another of his basement tapes, this one offering a truce in Iraq and Afghanistan but also threatening fresh attacks on the American public sometime in the future. Given his responsibility for the events of Sept. 11, 2001, the leader of Al Qaeda has to be taken seriously -- no matter how mannered and predictable his warnings". George Bush spends 90 minutes in Kansas---tough crowd. Karl Rove reminds the Manhattan Institute that they're scared. ... They roll out Dick Cheney and he gives his tired old repetitive and many times disproved view on what happened... The push this week is all being done to not only scare the populous but to deflect their attention away from the Bush administration's and the Republican Congress' culture of corruption and just plain incompetence. Of course Bush doesn't want to talk about his failure in Iraq, the deficit, stagnant wages, or his and the Republicans' relationship with Abramoff. He, Dick and Karl are pulling out the old playbook of scare the pansy-asses and their old assist man, Osama, is there once again to help them. As I've said before, Bush and bin Laden feed off each other and they both owe each other bigtime.