My New Theory

Ok, I didn’t go to bed till after midnight, and I’ve been up since around 4:30. I’m reading around the news sites and blogroll when a thought hits me. I admit that my new theory might not stand up under the scrutiny of another cup of coffee and some daylight, but here it is.

President Bush must be doing a whole lot better than his recent poll numbers (italics=slanted — get it?) would indicate. I mean, what other explanation can there be for Sen. Russ Feingold’s call for censure and all of the impeachment talk?

A liberal Democrat and potential White House contender is proposing censuring President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping, saying the White House misled Americans about its legality.

“The president has broken the law and, in some way, he must be held accountable,” Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told The Associated Press in an interview.

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The five-page resolution to be introduced on Monday contends that Bush violated the law when, on his own, he set up the eavesdropping program within the National Security Agency in the months following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

It’s the silly censure proposal that got the attention this weekend, but the real goal of the left is the big “I” — impeachment. H. Res 635 would create a Select Committee for that purpose, but as John Hawkins points out,

14% of the Democrats in the House support the impeachment probe for “misleading the public to go to war,” “authorizing torture,” and they may add the wiretapping of terrorists on as well before it’s all over. Of course, Bush didn’t mislead the public, authorize torture — and the wiretapping of calls between US citizens and foreign agents without a warrant is not only legal, it would likely take a Constitutional Amendment to strip him of that power.

Confederate Yankee details the four main claims of Feingold’s proposed censure.

• President Bush created a program that violated FISA which, “makes it a crime to wiretap Americans in the United States without a warrant or a court order.”
• President Bush mislead the country about the existence of the program.
• President Bush mislead the country about the legality of this program.
• Congress must hold President Bush accountable because, “this President and this Administration decided to break the law and they have yet to give a convincing explanation of why their actions were necessary, appropriate, or legal.”

And then proceeds to completely knock each one down. Completely. Read it all.

So, in the pre-dawn moments of this Monday morning, I’ve come up with my theory. If President Bush is as ineffectual and irrelevant as the clueless left surrender monkeys would have us believe, why are they trying to play “gotcha”? Since their case is devoid of facts I can only conclude that the President is doing much better than they want us to believe. And since they have no ideas of their own they have to fall back on this failed strategy.

I think this will go off like a dud bottle rocket — all pfffft, and no bang. We’ll see. Feel free to discuss it among yourselves.

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