During a speech to the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting, RNC chair Ken Mehlman insults the intelligence of the American people, asking, “Do Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean really think that when the NSA is listening in on terrorists planning attacks on America, they need to hang up when those terrorists dial their sleeper cells in the United States?”

No. Pelosi and Dean want NSA to get a warrant. It’s not very difficult.

That is all.

Update 1/23: Writing in Tapped, Greg Sargent reminds me of a similarly absurd quote from Karl Rove:

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. Some important Democrats clearly disagree.

Who? As Sargent says, “This statement is simply false. Can anyone name a single Democrat who’s on record opposing the wiretapping of calls from Al Qaeda to America? In reality, Dems don’t oppose wiretapping. They simply think Bush should get a warrant first — and think it’s illegal if he doesn’t.”