Pro-Taliban Dana Rohrabacher Says He's "very happy" With Presidential Spying

Another certified wacko Republican from Southern California. Representative Dana Rohrabacher (CA-46) , pictured (far left) with his Taliban friends, proclaims himself "very happy" with President Bush's illegal spying on the American people.

The Washington Monthly is impressed with conservative former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr's spirited defense of the Constitution against Rohrabacher on CNN.

"BARR: Well, the fact of the matter is that the Constitution is the Constitution, and I took an oath to abide by it. My good friend, my former colleague, Dana Rohrabacher, did and the president did. And I don't really care very much whether or not it can be justified based on some hypothetical. The fact of the matter is that, if you have any government official who deliberately orders that federal law be violated despite the best of motives, that certainly ought to be of concern to us...

BARR: Here again, this is absolutely a bizarre conversation where you have a member of Congress saying that it's okay for the president of the United States to ignore U.S. law, to ignore the Constitution, simply because we are in an undeclared war.

The fact of the matter is the law prohibits -- specifically prohibits -- what apparently was done in this case, and for a member of Congress to say, oh, that doesn't matter, I'm proud that the president violated the law is absolutely astounding, Wolf.

ROHRABACHER: Not only proud, we can be grateful to this president. You know, I'll have to tell you, if it was up to Mr. Schumer, Senator Schumer, they probably would have blown up the Brooklyn Bridge. The bottom line is this: in wartime we expect our leaders, yes, to exercise more authority."

Rohrabacher pride in the President and his unqualified support for violating Federal law and trashing the Constitution should get him thrown out of office. But, in his safe gerrymandered SoCal district, he will be allowed to continue his support of corrupt, anti-democratic leaders like George Bush. Rohrabacher is as right today as he was in 1996 when he proclaimed that the "Taliban could provide stability in an area where chaos was creating a real threat to the U.S."

Good call, Dana.

Double hat tip to Eschaton and the Washington Monthly.