Russ Feingold explains how easily the Democrats are manipulated by the White House. If this keeps up I may have to become an Independant again.

The Democrats just voted to expand this administrations ability to spy on our phone calls. That may seem almost impossible to imagine since we have a majority of Democrats in the Senate, and they have expressed concern with the administration having any more domestic spying abilities. But Senator Feingold will explain how spineless our Democrats really are.

“There was an intentional manipulation of the facts to get this legislation through,” said Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, a Democrat on the Intelligence Committee who voted against the plan.

The White House, Mr. Feingold said Friday in an interview, “has identified the one major remaining weakness in the Democratic Party, and that’s its unwillingness to stand up to the administration when it’s making a power grab regarding terrorism and national security.”

“They have figured out that all they have to do is start talking about an imminent terrorist threat, back it up against a Congressional recess, and they know the Democrats will cave,” he added.

This is absolutely amazing. The idea that a President this low in the polls can still outmaneuver a Congress led by his political rivals defies belief.

And it is done the way everything is done by this administration, by playing the fear card. When will these morons learn that the whole damn thing is made up!

F.D.R. said "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself". And truer words were never spoken.