More Neo-Con Doo-Doo

Tony Blankley must be smoking from the same crack-rock as Bill Kristol. His latest editorial in the Washington Times advances some rather strange propositions.

Proposition One: It's shameful - and possibly traitorous - to criticize the President during the month of December. (It's also shameful and traitorous to criticize the President during the months of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November.)

Proposition Two: The person who leaked information to the New York Times detailing Bush's illegal wire tap program is a traitor as evil as Benedict Arnold. (And here I thought people who challenged authoritarianism and outed criminal activity in the White House were patriots).

Proposition Three: The Constitution is really a complex mathematical formula that makes the protection of individual rights inversely proportional to the need for those rights to be protected. The more our rights are threatened, such as during times of war, the less protection the constitution actually provides. This proposition is so foolish and creepy it deserves elaboration. I'll let Blankley speak for himself:

However, the most basic constitutional principle is that in war time, the constitutionality of government intrusion into peace time civil liberties must be proportional to the magnitude, likelihood and exigency of the threat or danger to be prevented.

Until one has measured the threat, one cannot rationally judge the constitutionality of the intrusion into civil liberties of the executive action. The president's critics simply ignore, or are oblivious to, the threat.

They rarely, if ever, even mention the palpable threat of Islamist terrorist (very possibly WMD) attack on our home soil in their analysis.

They ought to re-run regularly (if only in the privacy of their living rooms) the video of our fellow Americans leaping out of the 90th story windows of the Twin Towers.

Because people died on 9/11, the constitution allows the President to do as he damn well pleases. Get it, you pinkos and libertarian freaks?