Good Bye Ann Coulter

If you took a look at Ann Coulter's latest column, you will agree that it has reached a point where even ridicule and satire are no longer necessary to push her over the edge.  She arrived on her own steam and willingly jumped.

While Democrats are capable of inflicting a lot of damage to themselves, Coulter has to resort to extremes that would not interest a phone booth filled with college hecklers:

The Democratic Party has decided to express indignation at the idea that an American citizen who happens to be a member of al-Qaida is not allowed to have a private conversation with Osama bin Laden.

Obviously wound too tight by the absence of hecklers and stalkers, Coulter oozes:

I thought it was pretty big news when it later turned out that the FISA court had been denying warrant requests from the Bush administration like never before. (Yes, I added the emphasis.)

Really?  Sidney Blumenthal checked the record:

From its inception in 1979 through 2002, covering the period when Bush began spying, the Fisa court issued 15,264 warrants. In 2003, the court rejected four applications, and the next year it rejected none. In its entire history, those four are the only rejections. (12-23-05)

Ann, this is getting too easy.

Dear reader, I am still looking for material on Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) but she keeps pushing him off the stage.

Comments

[Jon]

Paul, I have three comments:
1) Ann says that the illegal spying is being done on "American citizen who happens to be a member of al-Qaida." The President has said that the illegal spying is on people who are "linked to al-Qaida." My question is, how does the NSA know these people are members of, or linked to, al-Qaida? Did Vice President Cheney tell them that there is "no doubt" of a link to al-Qaida?
2) It scares me how many people are trying to destroy America by destroying our civil liberties. These people are dangerous, and un-American.
3) I would like a reporter to ask the President whether any of the illegal spying was done on any member of the Kerry campaign or any Democratic party officials. Furthermore, has any of the illegal spying been done on reporters, especially those who have reported the existence of the illegal spying?

In Orwell's 1984, the government ("Big Brother") used a perpetual state of war to justify it's abuses. Orwell was only off by 20 years....Jon

[Josh]

On the subject of NSA spying on American citizens, Coulter apparently finds herself to the right of Sen. Sam Brownback, otherwise known as Mr. "Fetal Pain Law." You're a traitor, Ann. This isn't another one of those issues where you can just retreat behind the "Republicans are your daddy" meme:

Brownback Unsure About Domestic Spying

POSTED: 7:10 pm CST December 23, 2005
UPDATED: 7:32 pm CST December 23, 2005

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Sen. Sam Brownback isn't sure he supports President George W. Bush in authorizing surveillance of people within the United States, and he acknowledged Friday that one justification given by the White House troubles him.

The Kansas Republican said he doesn't agree with Bush that when Congress authorized him to use force against terrorists following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, it gave the president the authority to have individuals' e-mails and telephone calls monitored without first seeking a warrant.

"I do not agree with the legal basis on which they are basing the surveillance, that when the Congress gave the authorization to go to war, that gives sufficient legal basis for the surveillance," Brownback said during a news conference at the Kansas Statehouse.

[Paul]

Jon, I really dislike the phrase "killing the patient in order to save it." Much too over used.

In the Coutler-Neocons world, they really want to kill the patient. They have no desire for our democracy to survive. They see a better America with elections as a phony ritual as in Saddam's Iraq but power preserved in an imperial presidency.