John Kerry Stimson Thorne Heinz: Hypocrite

Kerry: 'America Can Do Better'

We shouldn't be letting 95 percent of container ships come into our ports without ever being physically inspected.

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Kerry Blasts Bush Over NSA Spy Program

WASHINGTON — Domestic spying authorized by the White House "doesn't uphold our Constitution" and President Bush's defense of the practice is "lame," Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday.

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Lessee if we have this straight ... by failing to inspect more than 5% (if you accept Kerry Stimson Thorne Heinz' numbers) of the container ships sailing into our harbors -- 100% would be great, but a logistical impossibilty -- the president has been lax in his Constitutional duty to "provide for the common defence".

But, by monitoring phone calls between overseas al Qaeda and in-country persons -- quite feasibile with no logistical constraints given current technology -- the president is breaking the law?

Should we monitor and inspect all containers regardless of their nation of origin given a common sense suspicion that they might contain nasty stuff while not exercising similar judgement vis-a-vis inter-continental phone calls?

These people keep driving nails into their electoral coffin.

We urge them to push this line of attack through Election Day 2006.