FISA

The Senate passed it. The House of Representatives, recess without ever taking the bill up; meaning our intelligence capabilities will, in many, many ways cease to exist. This is unconscionable.

This is not politics. They’re playing politics with this.

This is Pelosi, who is denying that the surge is working — and, by the way, even the New York Times — this is so huge.

There are big, far reaching measures that have reconciliation written all over them in Iraq. The Sunnis and the Shi’ites are doing a Rodney King, and they’re getting along. And who cares why? You know, the Media has been trying to say, “Well, it’s only because the US military lucked out. The US military lucked out.”

No, it has nothing to do with luck.

The surge caused this. The surge has worked!

The surge has brought about this political reconciliation because it has limited the damage and busted up Al-Qaeda in Iraq, making it less attractive for Sunnis to associate with them.

They’re also sharing oil revenues, despite not having a law to share oil revenues. So this is huge. The surge has worked. Pelosi just this week denied that it has worked on the basis of her political calculation that there is no reconciliation in the government, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Now they’ve taken up the FISA bill in the House by ignoring it. It would mean the lapse of our surveillance authority at midnight tonight. At that point, we’re back to going and getting warrants from the FISA court, which can take weeks. By the time we get the warrant to listen in, the conversation’s over.

… can you say,“Bend over and grab your ankles…”

This is not politics. This is something that directly affects the national security of this country.

And the Democrat leadership in the House is responsible for this.

God help us all.