We always hear about Pres. Bush's job approval numbers. The RCP average is 30%.
We never hear about the Dem Congress' approval numbers.
Let me repeat: 22% And 30% is better than 22%!
So, I can't wait for Rep. Coneyers and his House pals to go after Bush and Cheney.
In fact, I am praying that they demand that the Obama administration go after his predecessor.
Of course, it won't happen. The Dems are talkers. They have used Bush hatred to feed an angry left that contributes millions of dollars and runs their blogs.
The Dems may want to read Peter Wehner:
"The primary responsibility of the president is to keep American citizens safe. By that standard alone, President Bush has achieved success.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, when virtually everyone assumed we'd be hit again, Bush put the United States on a war footing.
He mobilized the entire federal government, including the military, Homeland Security, the Treasury, the FBI, our intelligence agencies and more.
We have not been attacked since."
Here is the good news: We have not been attacked.
Here is the bad news for the Dems: They will own the next attack, specially if the nation believes that they shattered the successful anti-terror structure left behind by Bush-Cheney.
In other words, no one was talking about "waterboarding" on the morning after 9-11!
Not even the most liberal Dems!
So go ahead and make my day.
Go ahead and start the inquiry.
In the meantime, Rep Conneyers and the Dems may want to check with Rep Harman and Sen Rockefeller and Speaker Pelosi.
"1. It wouldn’t be the first time a Democratic leader privately approved a secret Bush policy reviled by the left.
See, e.g., Madam Speaker giving thumbs up to CIA interrogation sites in 2002, back when the political calculus on counterterrorism measures was a wee bit different than it is now.
Apparently, she was willing to take a tough line on terror so long as she didn’t have to suffer any political consequences among her base.
Apply that same logic and you’ll see why Democrats might not have been eager to see Bush come to Congress seeking public authorization.
2. As Maguire notes, the New York Times reported three years ago on Democratic acquiescence in the wiretapping program — although the detail provided by Cheney about them discouraging him from seeking congressional approval appears to be new. (Democrats claimed predictably in 2005 that the briefings they’d gotten hadn’t revealed how extensive the program was.)
Three Democrats did object at various points, one of whom was Pelosi in the form of a letter sent in October 2001.
But unless I’m misreading it, the crux of her concern wasn’t that the NSA was wiretapping people without Congress’s or a court’s approval.
It was that Bush hadn’t yet specifically authorized the practice at the time.
3. It’s now more than 24 hours since the Cheney interview aired and nary a peep from any of the Dems accused.
If this is some egregious smear or lie, they’re being curiously shy about calling him on it."
Weren't they in the room when the Bush administration briefed them on the interrogation tactics?
Go ahead and unleash the angry left on Bush and Cheney!
We can't wait.
