"It shouldn't be about national security."-Pelosi

Outrageous! We are at WAR!

"It shouldn't be about national security," because we always lose when it's about National Security!

:p

While there are more things on the table to discuss all of them are nothing if we don't pay attention to protecting ourselves.

Nancy Pelosi Despicable as ever

It shouldn't be about national security because national security is too important to be political.

Nice spin Nova... You better sit down, I bet you're dizzy.

Democrats have been politicizing national security from the very beginning. National security being an "issue" is not the same as politicization. You know that. Don't deny it. And, you know just as much as anyone that Pelosi doesn't want national security to be an issue because it's a winning issue for Republicans.

It's a winning issue for Republicans because they spin it better. There are two key things that need to be relayed to the public.

One: We don't scan cargo at our ports, and under the Bush administration we never will. Chertoff told us as much.
Two: We are losing the war on terror. Afghanistan is on the brink of no return, and Iraq has become a terrorist haven. BECOME, as in it wasn't one before we made it one.

Republicans have totally bungled national security. They completly dropped the ball. It's great that we had a 9/11 Commission, but it would be better to enact better than half of their proposals, and it would be nice to make sure they stick.

As long as George Bush is at the heml, we will not be safe. And he doesn't intend to make us safer. No attacks since 9/11? Remember anthrax? Heck, and why doesn't 9/11 count? Imagine if 9/11 happened in 1993, when Clinton took over. Could you look back and blame 41? No you'd blame Clinton.

nice excuse Nova... You seem to totally ignore the fact that when it comes to fighting terror Republicans are more concerned about protecting Americans and Democrats are more concerned about the "rights" of terrorists and blaming Bush.

Regarding your so-called points, first, not all cargo is inspected, only ones deemed high-risk. This is a known fact that you seem totally willing to ignore.

and two, your opinion is your opinion, but you cannot present your opinion as an accepted fact when it is not.

If I told you that the undeniable truth is that Democrats make us less safe, you'd make claims to the contrary. Spin is not an issue here. Facts are. Which party gloated about "killing the patriot act" which party opposes the surveillance of terrorists or monitoring their finances.

Democrats are the ones trying to undermine the war on terror. The facts speak for themselves. No spin on your part can change that.

KCJ applause and kudos.That was an excellent slap down.Congrats.

Even you claiming that the Democrats don't want to monitor terrorists is spin. No Democrat to my knowledge has ever said that we don't want to listen to terrorism related phone calls, or monitor their assests.

But by throwing a dragnet into the populous we simply aren't going to find anything. And that's not because we won't catch it but because there will be an overload of information. There's a better way, and Democrats aren't willing to throw civil liberties to the wayside because Bush can't figure out an effective way to wage the war on terror.

And you cite the Patriot Act as undeniably linked to the War on Terror. How? Can you say that it has stopped a terroist attack since 9/11? The anthrax attacks happened, and the major 'stopped' attacks since then were due to al Zawahiri calling one off and the Brits. We were not involved. The Patriot Act is a broad bill that allows George Bush free reign to do whatever he wants. If we want a comprehensive anti-terror bill, the Patriot Act in all it's 1984 imagery is not it.

If the election shouldn't be about national security, what should it be about, global warming? It's not "the economy stupid", although Democrats would have us think the economy is bad so they can blame the President for that too. The way I interpret Nancy Pelosi's remark is that she thinks it shouldn't be about issues at all, it should be about how well you can spin the facts. Because that's the only way the Democrats could be assured to win.

Nova, pull it out.
"But by throwing a dragnet into the populous" --WRONG This is a flat lie.

"Bush can't figure out an effective way to wage the war on terror." --WRONG See Patriot Act

"And you cite the Patriot Act as undeniably linked to the War on Terror. How?" -- See above

"Can you say that it has stopped a terroist attack since 9/11?"-- YES See below

"The anthrax attacks happened," Yup, before Patriot Act Be realistic, 100% secure is NOT possible. You know that so don't play that silly game.

"and the major 'stopped' attacks since then were due to al Zawahiri calling one off and the Brits." Here is where you have to think. Why did pig zawa-heehee call it off?? Because we knew. Where did the Brits get additional info?? From US.

"We were not involved."-- WRONG We most certainly were.

"The Patriot Act is a broad bill that allows George Bush free reign to do whatever he wants." Wrong -- This is an outright LIE.

Sorry Nova, you loose. Try thinking for yourself instead of parroting the tripe of the far left.