In the analysis of the deconstruction of the Democrat Party and mind, one must expend a great deal of ratiocinative time and effort on the perpetual Donkey nostalgia for the heady days of Woodstock yore. Every aspect of their attempts at the application of power and influence over the last forty years, both within government and without, has been executed within the ideological parameters of the era of tie-dye, lava lamps and hashish.

And who can blame them? Back in the day, the youthful recovery from intoxicant binges was swift, many were in the midst of their responsibility-free, parentally bill-footed seven-year undergraduate plans, and shows, the likes of the Monterey Pop Festival and the Max Yasgur Farm Extravaganza, were simply a gas (and a trip).

All of this mere national security folderol has been deemed to be of lesser import than another, long and desperately sought Leftist political win.

But as the Calendar began to wreak its slowly interminable havoc on the Woodstock cadre, and they begrudgingly entered the realm of adulthood (at least chronologically), they had to convert their exuberance into some sorts of pseudo-utilitarian lifelong endeavors.

During those times of hedonistic glee, the Great Unwashed and Unshaven actually scored two unfortunate, wrong-headed, nationally and internationally damaging "victories" over the System and the Man. What they then set out to do was beat their 1960s-era swords into lifelong political plowshares.

Congratulations Senator Kerry, Et.Al.

The one win about which we have always heard the most was their success in 1973 in ensuring the death of three million Vietnamese at the hands of their beloved Communists by forcing our premature withdrawal from the Asian subcontinent.

It has since been their self-assumed prerogative to place every foreign war undertaken by Republicans (as Democrat by-products of the arts of peace, such as Bosnia and Haiti, are allowed to be waged unchallenged) within their myopic Vietnam War prism.

Their end-it-at-all-costs objective with all Elephantary conflict, gloriously free of any intellectual analysis of its national security meritoriousness, is predicated upon their past "success" in horrifically ending the Donkey-induced Indochinese police action.

Hence the Democrats' all-consuming monolithic fascination with a unilateral pull-out of an Iraq in and over which we are incrementally but inexorably winning.

The other age-old Leftist triumph was domestic in nature, and a thousand similar efforts have been launched in its vainglorious wake (and that has been just during the George W. Bush Administration). They succeeded, in 1974, in taking down a sitting Republican President, Richard Milhous Nixon, for in large part using governmental agencies to spy on the nation's citizenry.

Mister Liddy, The Door Lock Tape Should Be Vertical, Not Horizontal

Watergate received the lion's share of the ink, but the perpetually paranoid Nixon was bugging innumerable telephone calls in addition to the condo Party office for a failed Democrat Presidential candidate. In and amidst the avalanche of post-Nixonian topple legislation, Congress foisted upon us the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is (almost in)arguably an unConstitutional Legislative lein on the enumerated war powers of the President and the Executive branch.

But the chasm of delineation between the Nixonian extravagances and President Bush's adventures in tapping is capacious. President Nixon listening in on calls between Toledo and Topeka is not nearly the same thing as the present Administration tracing globtrotting terrorists and then paying particular attention once some of them let their fingers do the walking to those currently residing in Toledo or Topeka.

It can be very reasonably argued, as the Bush Administration and its every predecessor has since the law's inception, that the FISA Court statute, quilled to prevent warrantless domestic-to-domestic wire tapping, has no applicative bearing on the efforts to overhear international Islamofascist to domestic Islamofascist calls.

But it is certainly this road-to-Hell enactment that in large part built the "wall" between international and domestic surveillance that made pre-September 11th, 2001, dot connecting virtually impossible.

Incepting the Span

President Bush received a great deal of Liberal scorn and consternation for his inability to surmount this artificially, Liberally erected intelligence partition and preempt the attacks.

It is this same band of Burros that is now chiding the man in the White House for availing himself of his Article II Constitutional powers to connect said terrorist dots and thereby prevent any subsequent September 11th-esque besets.

This is yet another example of the Left wanting it both ways, only so long as the Right can have it neither.

If a known terrorist overseas, whom we have been watching, places a telephone call to someone within the (thankfully still) friendly confines of the United States, the President has since September 11th, 2001, had the audacity to actually keep tabs on said call recipient for a little bit, to ascertain why he would be on Al Qaeda speed dial.

If the member of the international thug ring dialed a wrong number, the inside America receiver is briefly watched, and then is no longer. But should he be a wide awake member of an internal sleeper cell, we have just jumped the wall and connected the dots.

President Bush did not bother to obtain warrants for said acts of erection-hurdling, fleck-coalescing surveillance. His attorneys had rightly informed him that Constitutional authority, and Presidential precedent, made doing so unnecessary.

He did, however, brief the Congressional leadership, as well as the heads of the two Select Intelligence Committees, of both Parties, about these activities at least a dozen times since the effort's inception. If the Donkeys in their apprised midst had a problem with the program, they never once voiced it, waiting instead for the New York Times to do their breaching dirty work for them. Their four year silence hereon until then was deafening.

Anyone Have a Problem This Time?

As the President (finally) said yesterday, "You know, it's amazing, when people say to me, well, he was just breaking the law -- if I wanted to break the law, why was I briefing Congress?"

An excellent question, one for which the Donkeys and the Left surely have no answer. But they are never ones to allow Reality to stop them from trying to turn these sow's ears into silk political purses.

The reasons for the eternal Liberal endeavor to reblast to the past are myriad, but the commonality amongst them all is victory, or the decided lack thereof. It has been a very long time since they have had one of any consequence, so their rueful reminiscences are to be expected and understood.

What is neither is their willingness to directly undermine our self-defensive actions or engage in words and deeds of a seditionary nature in order to achieve that which has for so long been beyond their short-armed and short-sighted grasp.

All of this mere national security folderol has been deemed to be of lesser import than another, long and desperately sought Leftist political win.

It is this grotesquely warped set of priorities that will be ultimately prohibitive of any such victory coming to pass any time soon.