Whitehouse Spin on warrrantless wiretaps

The main talking point on the right is:
Only Democrats are against the wiretaps, and that's because we are unpatriotic, and we want the terrorists to win.

On friday Karl Rove was quoted in the NYT said:

Mr. Rove's speech on Friday to the Republican National Committee was a classic example. "Let me be as clear as I can be: President Bush believes if Al Qaeda is calling somebody in America, it is in our national security interest to know who they're calling and why," Mr. Rove said. "Some important Democrats clearly disagree."

And according to The Carpet Bagger Report
"Yesterday on Fox News Sunday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) became the latest Senate Republican to raise legal questions about the president's warrantless-search program.

...that brings the total of Senate Republicans who don't believe the president had the lawful authority to engage in this surveillance to seven: Specter (Pa.), Graham (S.C.), Hagel (Neb.), Snowe (Maine), Lugar (Ind.), Brownback (Kan.), and now, McCain.

The point, of course, is that we're talking about bi-partisan criticism. Karl Rove is desperate to convince the nation that Dems don't want any surveillance against suspect terrorists — a demonstrable lie — but the fact is, the body of critics against the president's program is growing and spans the ideological spectrum."