Reclaiming The Issues: "Why Is Bush Spying On Democrats?!?"

Perhaps the Dems are afraid to believe it themselves, or maybe they are afraid of being called paranoid.

They had damned well better get over it, because they are allowing fascism creep to take over and set us up for a guerilla civil war in this coutry, because if they allow this to go on much longer without challenge, our democracy will have to be restored by other means.

We are given constitutional remedies for out-of-control administrations. But those remedies will not serve us unless they are used. The longer we continue down this road to tyranny, with this administration unchecked by the legislative branch, the more likely it is that we will have to restore our rule of law by extra-constitutional means; like thse spoken about in the Declaration of Independence.

Reclaiming The Issues: "Why Is Bush Spying On Democrats?!?": (FULL ARTICLE)

Every time Democrats and progressives speak out about George W. Bush's spying on Americans without mentioning that he may also be spying on Democrats, they're playing into Karl Rove's 'National Security Frame' and actually strengthening Republican electoral chances in November.
To short-circuit this, Democrats need to invoke the ghost of Richard Nixon.

If they don't, even Pete Hoekstra's new revelations that there are even more as-yet-unreported secret spying programs that Bush has been hiding from Congress will be used by Rove to say to average voters, 'See? We're really looking out for you!'

The Bush administration doesn't deny it has been spying on Americans - they brag about it. They're listening to our phone calls, reading our emails, and looking at our bank transactions. They're gathering databases about our medical records, what we charge on our credit cards, and where we travel.

When Democrats point out that this is illegal without a court order, Rove simply floods the airwaves with Republicans who say, 'We're doing it to protect you!'

The average American doesn't think this all the way through, and the Rovian frame seems like pretty commonsensical. In fact, it's at the heart of the right-wing rant.