I Spy

The Bush administration is in the middle of an aggressive push to defend the NSA-WWW (wiretaps without warrants) program. The President is giving speeches all over the country claiming his right, under the Constitution and the Iraq war resolution, to go around the FISA court.

Here's hoping that this charm offensive in the interests of the worst violation of the First and Fourth amendments since Dick Nixon crawled across the earth is as successful as the one W. launched to "reform" Social Security. Turd Blossom is making a rare political miscalculation - he doesn't understand that 51% of Americans like (i.e., prefer to wimpy Democratic alternatives) W. when he's acting tough, not talking tough. Every time W. narrows his little eyes, gives his inappropriate phony chuckle, and struggles manfully to mouth his speechwriters' platitudes about protecting the American people, his numbers drop.