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Oh Goody!, Al Gore is on a day pass from the 'Institute for the very-very nervous' and is talking publically again! It must be part of "Karl Rove evil plan" to ensure that the Republicans keep the House this year, because there is no better person to start talking about how bad the other guys ethics are than former Vice President Albert 'No Controlling legal authority" R. Gore.

From a Krauthammer article from 1997:

"Controlling legal authority." Whatever other legacies Al Gore leaves behind between now and retirement, he forever bequeaths this newest weasel word to the lexicon of American political corruption.

Bang. And there you go.

The thing is, I love that phrase so much it slips into my inner dialog every time I hear Al talk. So instead of him making some dramatic " gosh I just gotta vote Democrat now" point, all I hear is something like this ( My inner dialog in bold)

From a speech he made today:

Congressman Barr and I have disagreed many times over the years, but we have joined together today with thousands of our fellow citizens-Democrats and Republicans alike-to express No Controlling legal authority our shared concern that America's Constitution is in grave danger.

It is imperative that respect for the No Controlling legal authority rule of law be restored.

So, many of us have come here to No Controlling legal authority Constitution Hall to sound an alarm and call upon our fellow citizens to put aside partisan differences and join with us in demanding that our Constitution be defended and preserved.
It is appropriate that we make this appeal on the day our nation has set aside to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who challenged America to breathe new life into our oldest values by extending its promise to all our people.

On this particular No Controlling legal authority Martin Luther King Day, it is especially important to recall that for the last several years of his life, Dr. King was illegally wiretapped- by Democrats No Controlling legal authority one of hundreds of thousands of Americans whose private communications were intercepted by the U.S. government during this period.

The Democratically controlled and dominated FBI privately called King the "most dangerous and effective negro leader in the country" and vowed to "take him off his pedestal." The government even attempted to destroy his marriage and blackmail him into committing suicide.

This campaign continued until Dr. King's murder. The discovery that the FBI conducted a long-running and extensive campaign of secret electronic surveillance designed to infiltrate the inner workings of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and to learn the most intimate details of Dr. King's life, helped to convince Congress to enact restrictions on wiretapping.

The result was the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA), which was enacted expressly to ensure that foreign intelligence surveillance would be presented to an impartial judge to verify that there is a sufficient cause for the surveillance. I voted for that Wanted to say its my idea but everyone would just laugh at me again law during my first term in Congress and for almost thirty years the system has proven a workable No Controlling legal authority and valued means of according a level of protection for private citizens, while permitting foreign surveillance to continue.

Yet, just one month ago, Americans awoke to the shocking news that in spite of this long settled law, the Executive Branch has been secretly spying on large numbers of Americans for the last four years and eavesdropping on "large volumes of telephone calls, e-mail messages, and other Internet traffic inside the United States." The New York Times Owned and operated by the DNC reported that the President decided to launch this massive eavesdropping program "without search warrants or any new laws that would permit such domestic intelligence collection."No Controlling legal authority

During the period when this eavesdropping was still secret Until some blabbermouth told everyone, the President went out of his way to reassure the American people on more than one occasion that, of course, judicial permission No Controlling legal authority is required for any government spying on American citizens and that, of course, these constitutional safeguards were still in place.

But surprisingly, the President's No Controlling legal authority soothing statements turned out to be false. Moreover, as soon as this massive domestic spying program was uncovered by the press, the President not only confirmed that the story was true, but also declared that he has no intention of bringing these wholesale invasions of privacy to an end.
At present, we still have much to learn about the NSA's domestic surveillance Hopefully more people will continue to act like traitors. What we do know about this pervasive No Controlling legal authority wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the President of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and persistently. And it should be me up there Dammit.

A Republican president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government . Our Founding Fathers were adamant that they had established a government of No Controlling legal authority laws and not Republican men. Indeed, they recognized that the structure of government they had enshrined in our Constitution - our system of checks and balances - was designed with a central purpose of ensuring that it would govern through the rule of law. As John Adams said: "The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of Republican men."
An executive who arrogates to himself the power to ignore the legitimate legislative directives of the Congress or to act free of the check of the judiciary becomes the central threat that the Founders sought to nullify in the Constitution - an all-powerful executive too reminiscent of the King Who should be me from whom they had broken free. In the words of James Madison, "the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of Democrat Heaven tyranny."

You see, once my mind locks onto his voice all I ca think of is that phrase and after that the poor guy doesnt have a chance to make his point.

Posted @ January 16, 2006 04:01 PM | Current Affairs