Shall we simply surrender now?

The president delivered his Saturday radio spot (televised on CNN) this morning. He was short, sweet, and to the point. And he was pissed! Rightfully so.

On two counts: First, the Senate is balking at approving a renewal of the Patriots' Act (and it's due to expire in two weeks). He did not try to hide his anger--he iterated that the Senate is irresponsibly interfering with the security of the nation. Second, the New York Times, having held from publication a full year the knowledge that he had authorized the National Security Agency to monitor certain communications between suspected terrorists at home and abroad, finally spilled the beans yesterday.

So now begins another in a series of bad weeks for the president. To get it started, Democrat Senator Russ Feingold, the official Democrat response to the president's statement, had a tantrum, saying that the president's attitude and actions were unprecedented and shocking.

We may be sure the president's detractors are honing their straight razors and will be slashing wildly the next several days. The usual stable of Democrats (Pelosi, et. al.) and the Loony Left will be joining forces to do their best to undermine the Administration--in full view of the world: both our friends and our enemies.

I've been trying my best to remain circumspect and slow to react to the deep political division in our country, but this is the last straw! It's time to call a spade a spade. Gloves off!

Those American citizens who have been ragging this president since 9/11/01 and before, going to such lengths as to declare him to be a Nazi subversive, responsible for everything bad that happens in this country and on the planet--including hurricanes--are marginal creatures. I am now beginning to seriously doubt their dedication to the defense of this country. If these people were rational, I'd go one step further and agree, with David Horowitz and Ann Coulter, that they are real, live traitors! But suspecting that they lack sound minds, I'll step back short of that accusation and simply call them irresponsible.

The rabid anti-Bush, anti-American, self-hate, self-defeating attitude that grips this country must cease. This country must take immediate stock of where we are headed. The media must get their collective acts together. Bureaucrats inside our government must cease their illegal and traitorous "leaking" because of their narrow-minded, misguided pettiness--they must be rooted out and prosecuted for breaking their security oaths. Responsible academicians, business and spiritual leaders must quickly and decisively condemn the trend that is plunging the country into chaos. If we're going to insist on citing the Constitution as a vehicle designed to hasten our own destruction, then we've truly lost our way, and have sullied the vision of the men who wrote that blueprint.

Where are those rational voices? Will they step forward? Or are we destined to go down to defeat because of the irrationality of the Loonies and the opposition's quest for power? Or is history repeating itself, and the Huns are finally on the verge of ravaging the ramparts of freedom in the world's longest surviving Democracy?

It might be less painful in the short term if we simply surrendered now.