According to this story at CNN:
President Bush on Monday rejected critics’ assertion that he broke the law by authorizing domestic eavesdropping without a warrant, saying he was doing what Congress authorized him to do to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.
Of course he does and of course he did. I also maintain that when my mom set my boundaries for driving when I was 16 that “a reasonable distance from home” meant I could travel the 40-odd miles from Dallas to Ft. Worth for the hell of it. That said, I’m willing to admit that I might have, you know, exceeded the limits intended by her edict. But I was a 16 year old boy who just got a car and was drunk with freedom, not, say, the president of the United States, drunk with power (among other things). It’s utterly reasonable that I would exceed the limits imposed on me by my parental unit, since that’s what teenagers do. It is NOT reasonable for the president of the United States to violate the 4th Amendment of the Constitution without confirming that that was what was intended when
“Congress gave me the authority to use necessary force to protect the American people, but it didn’t prescribe the tactics”
Of course, a republican-controlled Congress may well have meant for our little hitler to violate the rights of Americans and violate the 4th Amendment of the Constitution (the absolute law of the land, remember?) after all. But that’s an approach to the “tactics” that should have been clarified rather than simply assumed by the administration in question. Because I’d really like to think that maybe one or two members of Congress might have said, “Gee, wait a minute there, Georgie. That’s a little outside the scope of what we were talking about… Oh, and you’re grounded.”
Speaking of grounded, unlike shrubby, I never got caught. And, for the record, the statute of limitations is up on that whole driving to Ft. Worth thing. So when you read this, mom, breathe deep and let it go 
The rest of you, though, should not let Georgie’s flagrant disregard for the rules set out for him by Congress go by unpunished. The statute of limitations has not run out on this. And there’s something we can do. Impeach the bastard. Sign up. Speak out. Write your newspapers. Write your (possibly corrupt, probably duplicitous) members of Congress. Just don’t sit there while this administration runs roughshod over the Constitution of the United States of America. If you do, you’re the one who’s unamerican, goddamnit.
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