The Kitten Club
Feb 3rd, 2006 at 9:56 am by Susie
That’s what I call the Republicans who will defend anything at all Bush does, up to and including smashing the head of a kitten with a hammer on live TV:
Thursday’s hearing marked the first time senior intelligence officials had testified before Congress about the NSA program. Republicans and Democrats engaged in unusually harsh exchanges over whether the Bush administration had the authority to order the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans, and whether it provided adequate notice to Congress.
At the close of the hearing, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), the committee’s chairman, angered Democrats by suggesting they were more focused on threats to civil liberties by intelligence agencies than threats from terrorist networks. “I would only point out that you really don’t have any civil liberties if you’re dead,” he said.
The leading Democrat on the panel, Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia, responded testily that he was “strongly for the goals” of disrupting domestic terrorist plots. “But I want it to be done under the law,” he said. “And so should you. That’s what keeps our country together.”
“I would only point out that you really don’t have any civil liberties if you’re dead.” - Pat Roberts, 2006
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” - Patrick Henry, 1775
Roberts is just a bedwetter.
One useful acronym: AWWSAs — Assholes Who Will Say Anything.
Patriotism…
“Give me liberty, or give me death.” — Patrick Henry rallying support for independence from the English military in 1775 “I would only point out that you really don’t have any civil liberties if you’re dead.â€? — Senator Pat Roberts……