What can be done?

Today, the Senate Defeatocrats, and 4 quivering Republican noodles as their aides-de-camp, filibustered the extension of the Patriot Act, thereby all but ensuring the Act will expire at the end of the year.

Hugh Hewitt's post said they went Ahab. If we're speaking of crazy captains, when it comes to national security, the Defeatocrats are more like Captain Queeg, rolling (their lost) marbles in their hands and blathering on about government snoops stealing their strawberries. Such is their paranoia about enabling our government to protect us.

On his radio show today Hewitt talked to Senator John Kyl.

Kyl pointed out the loose-bowel Defeatocrats who voted against this had no idea what they were voting against.

HH: 202-225-3121 is what connects you to Capitol Hill. 202-225-3121. What reasons...what did they want? Because this was a compromise act already, Senator Kyl.

JK: Yes, but what they told us, and I think this is true...first of all, most of them didn't know what was in the conference report. We had made so many compromises in here, I almost didn't sign the conference report. But they can't tell you, the people who voted no can't really tell you what they'd do differently.

But, Kyl also got it exactly right when he said the Defeatocrats filibustered this because they felt no political pressure to vote for the Patriot Act.

I think that the people on the other side did not feel any political threat from casting the vote that they cast. And until the American people rise up and let them know that we will not stand for this, I don't think they're going to change their vote.
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So right now, they feel that they're on the side of the people. And until the people say no, no, no, we want you to protect us, the Patriot Act is a good thing, they're not going to feel the political pressure to change.

When it comes down to it, what has the Defeatocrat's anti-war position really cost them? And I mean today. Certainly it may have kept them out of the White House, but what price are they paying today for their defeatism and constant attacks on President Bush, and now this, during a time of war?

Unless and until more people in this country realize what we are truly facing, we are not going to be unified as a country in facing this threat of radical Islam.

Michelle Malkin had a post linking to some of the talk on the Left these days. (And don't miss her post about Chicken Littles. See Vox Taciturn for some good commentary on the topic as well.)

How are we to combat that? With that as their base, the Defeatocrats see no reason not to filibuster the Patriot Act.

It feels like not only are we fighting the Islamic murderers, we're fighting too many of our own at home.

Have we forgotten how we felt on September 11?