After years of searching, Democrat leaders are finally beginning to find their agenda: take away the tools America needs to fight terror.

Oh this is just too funny!

Democratic senators, filing in for their weekly caucus lunch yesterday, looked as if they’d seen a ghost.
“I haven’t read it,” demurred Barack Obama (Ill.).

“I just don’t have enough information,” protested Ben Nelson (Neb.). “I really can’t right now,” John Kerry (Mass.) said as he hurried past a knot of reporters — an excuse that fell apart when Kerry was forced into an awkward wait as Capitol Police stopped an aide at the magnetometer.

Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) brushed past the press pack, shaking her head and waving her hand over her shoulder. When an errant food cart blocked her entrance to the meeting room, she tried to hide from reporters behind the 4-foot-11 Barbara Mikulski (Md.).

“Ask her after lunch,” offered Clinton’s spokesman, Philippe Reines. But Clinton, with most of her colleagues, fled the lunch out a back door as if escaping a fire.

Hat Tip: Captain’s Quarters

More from the Dana Milbank article:

Next in the Senate TV gallery came Schumer. An aide hung up a poster showing a port. The senator called the ports situation “extremely troubling.” The aide hung up a poster of an Exxon cartoon. “Obscene profits,” decreed Schumer, equally passionately.

CNN’s Henry asked the Feingold question. Schumer ended the news conference.

Outside the Democrats’ lunch downstairs, the senators were similarly agile. The number two Democratic leader, Richard Durbin (Ill.), darted out of an elevator and into lunch when he thought nobody was looking.

Reporters, as instructed, asked Reid where he stood. “It’s a question that’s been asked 33 times in the last few hours,” he said. “And so, for the 34th time, I’m going to say the same thing: I’m going to wait . . .”

But they didn’t want to wait for the 45 days on the UAE deal and wanted a vote on that NOW. So why the sudden ‘patience’ on the democrats part now?

Uh-oh looks like someone is in trouble with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Whip Richard Durbin.

My how they don’t seem to be happy with Sen. Russell Feingold.

Maybe it’s be, but in the photo Feingold seems a bit arrogant or like the petulant child being reprimanded by big daddy Reid and momma Durbin.

Sanity, I just blogged about the Dem’s being evasive on this earlier here. –ST

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R) Questions Feingold’s Motives On Call For Censure, Blasts Democrats Lack Of Commitment Against Terrorism.

Mr. Speaker, in their rush to be against everything that President Bush is for, Democrats have once again given us reason to question their timing and judgment. A resolution has been introduced in the Senate to censure the President for ordering the National Security Agency to intercept communications of suspected al Qaeda members or related terrorist groups.

Apparently, this offends some Democrats so much that they seek to scold the President in the midst of the War on Terror. To them, I ask: How would you monitor terrorist operatives who move to this country, blend in and wait to strike? Do you think they hang a shingle on their front door reading “terrorist in waiting?”

The NSA program is one that provides the speed and agility that is needed as we fight this new kind of war. We must adapt because in this day and age, terrorists move faster than any court possibly can. A span of just a few hours could make the difference between life and death.

Mr. Speaker, we are not questioning the Democrats’ patriotism as they so often charge; we are however questioning their poor judgment. They are unwise in opposing what is clearly a vital tool against terrorist organizations and in allowing a censure resolution on the Senate floor which could damage the President as he fights this War on Terror.

From Expose the Left

I Love It!

This needs to be done EACH time.

Everytime Dhimmicrats come out like this, Republicans need ot stand up and call them on it.

Show Americans why they are doing it, show people what type of political games dhimmicrats are playing with the war on terror, the games they are playing with your life, my life and other americans lives.

- Not really. Just more evidence that the internal workings of the Democratic party are in such a termoil that they are all working at cross purposes, in an effort to “be different”, which is the mother of all ironies on one hand, since every breath they take is about “sameness”, eradicating “class”, dumbing down, ect, and just another example of why the utopian ideas of the left are simply unworkable in any real world setting.

- Expect to see a lot more of this because, aside from the obvious loss of the past two elections, and the lose of power that goes with it, its taken awhile but you’ll start to see the other effects. This is the start of the day of “reckoning”. Who did what, and why it didn’t work, and so forth, and as a matter of course, individuals within the party, quite aside from the two main camps of Deaniacs versus Clintonistas, will try plays at jumping in front of the pack, because most of the lessor known luminaries see the same leaderless Reid/Pelosi vacuum, and will attempt to fill it. Thats what Feingold is doing in this case. He floats a rediculous idea that could only appeal to the hard left and Libertarians, just to see what support he can muster, ignoring the overall internal party agenda for personal gain.

- Reid stumbbled his way through his press conference response, trying to bracket the whole thing in a way that distanced the party core without slamming Feingold, but the annoyance was obvious.

- I expect to see a lot more of this in the days to come and an all out battle for the hearts and minds of the party faithful, and it won’t be pretty. Worse yet, it couldn’t come at a less auspicious time, because the Dems can’t realistically hope to find enough issues to push Bushes popularity ratings much lower. Moreover, other than the Congressional elections, the Bush-bashing campaign is a dead end for the 2008 campaign, and they better have a super strong, wide appeal candidate, with a viable platform and party plan, or they’ll get to spend another 4 or 8 years playing sore losers.

- Bang

Talk about a coward, running like a little girl from Specter. Hard to believe any person in this country voted for this piece of dogcrap. I mean Specter is not even a real Republican and this guy runs from him? What the hell!

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