Hodge Podge

Yesterday Common Sense blogged about how Republicans can take back the Congress if they stood on conservative principles. One of the very first items on this new contract for America calls for us to defend the homeland and secure the borders. Well today Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has unilaterally disarmed the United States in the war against terror. The Speaker adjourned the House of Representative before reauthorizing FISA, or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to expire at midnight tonight. FISA is one of the most important resources the US has at its disposal to monitor phone calls and emails from persons outside of the US who mean to do us harm, i.e., foreign powers or their agents. Because the Democrats do not want to give immunity to the major telephone companies that provide the telecommunications link, the US is virtually crippled from monitoring sources outside of the US who would otherwise commit terrorist acts against us or our allies. This could not come at a worse time as Hezbollah is sabre rattling against Israel. At midnight tonight, the US will return to the old 1978 FISA law that has become obsolete. Congressman Tom Price says, "Rather than working together and allowing a vote on the new Protect America Act, which the majority of the House is on record supporting, the Democrat leadership in the House is disregarding their solemn oath to defend the American people and abdicating their constitutional responsibilities". Calling the Speaker's actions irresponsible and reprehensible is an understatement. President Bush should call Congress into a special session until they have a bill in place. Common Sense condemns the Speaker for putting US national security on the backburner while she goes off on vacation in San Francisco.

Common Sense has learned that Governor Sonny Perdue is a possible vice presidential candidate on the McCain ticket. Perdue won reelection in 2006 over Lt. Governor Mark Taylor by a sizeable margin. Perdue's name has recently surfaced as someone who could help McCain with the conservative south. The fiesty, plain-spoken Perdue is a likeable fellow who would help McCain in the south and sure up some of the Senator's "conservative" credentials. Stay tuned!

Al Gore to the rescue? Possibly. If the Dems are unable to resolve who their nominee is going to be, several high ranking Democrats are prepared to draft Al Gore as their Party's nominee. You can read more about this at http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/02/15/al-gore-to-the-rescue.aspx