Digby: Patrick Henry Democrats
As much as I appreciate all these Republicans offering us advice about how we are endangering our political prospects by not supporting illegal NSA spying, I have to wonder if they really have our best interests at heart. I just get a teensy bit suspicious that it might not be sincere.
The truth is that I have no idea where the NSA spying scandal is going and neither do they. The Republicans would like it to go nowhere for obvious reasons and so they are trying to psych out timid Dems. What I do know is that the most important problem Democrats have is not national security; it's that nobody can figure out what we stand for. And when we waffle and whimper about things like this we validate that impression.
posted by Dictynna @ 9:35 AM
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I don't see how this is anything but a loser issue for the Democrats. Unless they can show that the wiretaps were abused (ie taps on political opponents rather than terror suspects) then the Right is going to paint the Left as impeding the fight against terror. Especially in light of the 9/11 commission finding that the FISA process was too slow and encumbered intelligence gathering.
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