When Will Americans Come First?

Russ Feingold is a human piece of excrement.

First he and John McCain penned the Campaign Finance Reform bill which if you read it, makes it impossible for average citizens to run for National Office leaving that area of our live open to only the millionare elite and these incumbent scum (yes, I'm pissed).

Then in June of 2005, he demands a full US surrender in Iraq so that the jihadists can brag to the world that we have no stomach for a fight. He has also supported McCains "Al Qaida Bill of Rights" further signaling weakness to those who would kill us without thinking twice.

Now, he has helped to stonewall the Patriot Act, thereby letting our enemies have full reign to do whatever they please with no more resistance than existed before 9/11.

In the mean time, he has done nothing about illegal immigration, nothing about social security, nothing that would releive our dependency on foreign oil and nothing about the alternative Minimum Tax which will entrap over 19 million tax payers in 2006.

I pray that the next terrorist attack in this country hits the Senate while they're in full session. It's our only hope for the future. Obama, strike them down!!!

From Investors Business Daily:
Victory And Defeat
Posted 12/16/2005

National Security: Even as the election of an Iraqi government marks a victory in the war on terror, some in the Senate consider an FBI agent entering a library a greater threat than al-Qaida blowing one up.

In the space of 24 hours the U.S. experienced perhaps its greatest victory in the war on terror and one of its greatest defeats. As free Iraqis marched to the polls for a third time, this one to elect a permanent government for their new democracy, 47 U.S. senators marched to the Senate floor to thwart renewal of one of the great weapons in the war on terror — the Patriot Act.

The act was passed 99 to 1 four years ago in the aftermath of 9-11. But those on the left had a visceral aversion to many of its provisions, and on Friday they won a big victory when the bill's supporters failed to get the 60 votes needed to end a filibuster against it. The final tally was 52-47.

So though no terrorist attacks have occurred on American soil since its passage and numerous terrorist cells have been broken up, some are putting ideology above national security.

The Patriot Act is not broken and does not need to be fixed. It has been a stunning success.

Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff says the law has resulted in the arrest of 155 people, yielding 142 indictments, the seizure of $25 million in potential terrorist funding and the closure of several unlicensed money-transmittal businesses.

Information sharing facilitated by the Patriot Act was critical to dismantling terror cells in Portland, Ore., Lackawanna, N.Y., and Virginia. Likewise, the act's information-sharing provisions assisted the prosecution in San Diego of those with an al-Qaida drugs-for-weapons plot involving Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.

The reaction of the American Civil Liberties Union to the House's approving renewal was to moan that the House failed "to protect the liberty and freedom of innocent Americans."

Adding to the left's Big Brother paranoia was a report in The New York Times that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to monitor e-mails and international telephone calls of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans, often without court authorization.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she was "not going to comment on intelligence activities, because intelligence activities by their very nature are activities that are sensitive and should not be compromised."

But comprising U.S. intelligence and U.S. security is par for the course for the Times and others who see nothing wrong in reporting on "secret" CIA prisons and otherwise letting the jihadists know what we're up to.

While it was making its claims, the Times said the program was successful in disrupting terrorist plots. It cited the case of Ohio trucker Lyman Harris, who in 2003 pleaded guilty to supporting al-Qaida by planning to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge.

We are in a war between civilization and those who would return the planet to a very dark age. Americans understand that whether it be Abraham Lincoln suspending habeas corpus during the Civil War or the U.S. renewing the Patriot Act, no liberties will remain if our nation does not survive. The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Democrats are all about protecting our civil liberties, but they forget that on 9-11 the rights of some 3,000 people were violated when they were blown off the face of the earth.