FISA FUSS & CONTRADICTORY NARRATIVES

The wingnuts are aghast that anyone would try to uphold the 4th Amendment and insist on some check to Executive power. Michael Cohen at Democracy Arsenal observes that the House GOPers are playing talk radio politics:

The instigator of this effort is one, Eric Cantor, Chief Deputy Republican Whip. I don't know a lot about Rep. Cantor, but this quote from his web site should tell me and you all we need to know about him:

House Democrats have pulled the FISA bill. They are so desperately against allowing our intelligence agencies to fight OBL and AQ, that they pulled the entire bill to prevent a vote.

Yes, you read the correctly. Rep. Cantor, whose a member of the GOP House leadership believes that the House Democrats are desperately against fighting Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Rep. Cantor seems to be arguing that Democrats are not only giving aid and comfort to the enemy, but that they are siding with the Islamic terrorists who want to attack and kill Americans.

As usual, they are playing the fear card and Deacon at PowerLine provides a great example:

Apparently the Democratic view of a FISA "fix" is to make the legislation more onerous now that the threat of a terrorist attack on the homeland has become so very real.

Atrios and others have pointed out that the GOP narratives (AKA, bullshit) are contradictory and I think Deacon's remark is another example of a narrative that doesn't fit with another major narrative of the Noise Machine: Bush (we conservatives) are winning the War on Terror.