bwah-ha-ha! Tucker Carlson calls Bush a "Bad Prez", criticizes spying

[kerry-is-my-prez]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/#survey

Bush may be a bad president, but this isn't a police state, not even close. (To claim otherwise is to insult the world's many genuine police states.) But I'm still bothered by the NSA story. Here's why:

Why didn't the Administration bother to get warrants for the wiretapping? Bush's aides claim there wasn't time; the terror threats were so pressing, bureaucratic niceties could have been dangerous. Sounds good, except that the 1978 law that governs federal eavesdropping allows the government to apply for a warrant after the wiretap has already been conducted. So that's not a serious excuse.

-snip-

There are circumstances when the country's interests take priority over its laws. But by definition such circumstances are temporary. In the long term -- for instance, in the four years since 9-11 -- a president either has to obey the laws or change them. If Bush believes that the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is incompatible with fighting the war on terror, he should ask Congress to scrap it.

Unfortunately that is not Bush's way. Bush distrusts rhetoric. He hates to explain and persuade. He'd prefer to decide and delegate. So instead of taking the time to convince members of Congress -- and for that matter the public -- that the government needs to start spying on Americans, he went ahead and did it in secret...... There's no evidence the NSA hurt anyone. But the principle is troubling. Do we really want to empower the president to ignore Congress, our most democratic institution? Bush's defenders aren't bothered by the idea because they trust Bush. But Bush won't be in office forever.

Will they feel the same way when Hillary is president?

[emulatorloo]

1. Bowtie Boy's heart got broken over the Harriet Miers nom

Maybe there was a little Katrina remorse too. . .at any rate, has not been happy with Bush ever since, and always seems like he in on the verge of tears.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

5. Actually, since Iraq - in 2004 he said he wasn't voting for Bush.

He had also been disgusted by an interview that he did with Bush abd Bush was laughing about putting Carla Faye Tucker to death.

Tucker is kind of a middle-of-the-road Republican but he's still a major asshole because of his rotten personality and his stance on many other issues.

[Pirate Smile]

14. Right. Tucker has never really liked Bush.

He didn't like the Iraq War either.

Karen Hughes lied straight to his face about something that they had both been present for (the Carla Faye Tucker interview with Tucker) so he knows how full of shit the Bush team really is.

That certainly doesn't mean he likes Democrats (except Rachel) though. As we have frequently pointed out, the Bush Administration isn't actually conservative and isn't like the old-time Republicans.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I still don't trust Tucker

Maybe it's that bow tie . . .

[orwell]

3. Stop Sign

"There's no evidence the NSA hurt anyone."

Is this the new standard of legal reasoning in "ConWorld".

"Well your honor, I did break the law. But I didn't hurt anyone..."

I'll try that the next time I "slide" through a red light in the middle of the night on a deserted street.

[Karmageddon]

8. Tucker should try the "no evidence it hurt anyone" when he gets busted....

... sucking on a 3 foot Graphix bong and see how well that works for him.

Of course, there's no evidence that a "bong" is what Tucker will be sucking on.

[orwell]

12. LOL n/t

[Jade Fox]

25. That's the new Conservative defense......

"We didn't break any really important laws, so it's okay!

[Chiyo-chichi]

13. As Nelson Muntz said...

"It's a victimless crime... like punching somebody in the dark."

[Supersedeas]

18. In the super secret world of ConWorld, it's innocent until leaked

[hvn_nbr_2]

21. No evidence it hurt anyone!!!!

1. Of course not. The evidence is all secret. How about showing us some evidence that it didn't hurt anyone? When a large conspiratorial group is breaking the law continuously for several years, the far more likely presumption is that they are hurting someone.

2. Shit-canning the constitution and the rule of law does hurt someone. It hurts everyone!

[LSparkle]

4. Flip, flop ... flip, flop ... F***er just bends with the trends ...

If *'s numbers go up again, he'll be back on the bandwagon. No spine whatsoever. As Vanity Fair called him, "a yappy vacuum."

[katty]

6. Yup, that's his m.o. - he's desperate to stay on the air

[LSparkle]

23. That's evidenced by his left-hand "countdown" of coming stories

Anyone who ISN'T afraid of viewers tuning out wouldn't bother with that ... I only watch that show to see Rachel Maddow and then I tune out (like probably everybody!).

[HereSince1628]

7. Lengthening days have Tucker glimpsing the LIGHT?

NAH! It's just a bit of indigestion, something he ate. Perhaps that bit of potato soup...That's it. It's just a Humbug! Humbug!!!

[Clark2008]

9. Maybe Keith Olbermann and his staff have been talking to

the bow-tie boy.

I know Tucker thought the world of Keith - or so it appeared - when he first joined MSNBC, so maybe Keith's common sense has rubbed off on the little feckless one.

:shrug:

[Uncle Joe]

10. I believe Tucker Carlson has temporarily borrowed some courage from

this MSNBC poll with 87,405 responses as of a few minutes ago with 86% voting for impeachment regarding wiretapping Americans without court approval.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

[emulatorloo]

11. a better link to tucker's "blog"

they seem to have removed it from the survey page. So now it is here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8063569/

[katinmn]

15. I still can't stand Tucker, because of statements like this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8063569/

"Domestic surveillance saves lives. That's the administration's position. Most Americans seem to agree."

Uh, he pulled that straight out of his ass.

[Ksec]

16. Typical / And Then he will go out and vote for him /

[YOY]

17. If only I gave two turds about what Tucker thought...

n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

19. I've always assumed Tucker had a heart, at least

Unlike so many on the right, he does appear to have limits to what his heart, and his stomach, can handle.

His account

http://www.dangerouscitizen.com/Photo+Gallery/568.aspx

of how Chimpy depicted the soon-to-be-sentenced Karla Faye Tucker is still bone-chilling, and I'm fairly sure that was the intent:

While driving back from the speech later that day, Bush mentions Karla Faye Tucker, a double murderer who was executed in Texas last year. In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, Bianca Jagger and a number of other protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Tucker. 'Did you meet with any of them?' I ask.

Bush whips around and stares at me. 'No, I didn't meet with any of them,' he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. 'I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with , though. He asked her real difficult questions, like 'What would you say to Governor Bush?' 'What was her answer?' I wonder.

'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me.'

I must look shocked -- ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel, even for someone as militantly anticrime as Bush -- because he immediately stops smirking.

[centristo]

20. the best response to Bushbots spying defesnse-

"Will they feel the same way when Hillary is president?"

If they say yes, they are full of shiite.

[AspenRose]

22. Poor Rachel Maddow

She's got her hands full with him, trying to get him to come to the light.

You KNOW he knows she's right, deep down.

[greiner3]

24. I always thought the he was;

A closet (not me, un huh) liberterian!

[Jade Fox]

26. The evidence is hardly in.......

How does Carlson know no one got hurt?

[mark414]

27. tucker is a big time weinie

but every once in a great while he makes at least a little bit of sense