Coulter's face isn't the issue here.
Yep, you're right. So far Bush appears to have been pretty much a good guy.
SO WHAT???
Sorry for yelling, but no one is listening and it's getting wearisome ... and frightening.
The issue isn't whether George Bush is a good guy or a bad one. The issue is whether we want our President -- any President, including the ones we don't like who will be in office in the future -- to have the unilateral ability to order wiretaps on US citizens, without so much as a rubber-stamped, after the fact warrant.
You say President Bush is a good guy. Fine, but ...
He ain't going to be in office forever. Doesn't anyone get that?!?
Every power Bush grabs for the Presidency while he is in office, will carry over to the next President. Every single precedent he sets will be followed (and pushed and expanded) by the next inhabitant of the Oval Office.
You don't want President Hillary to have that much power? Excellent. Know how to keep it away from her? Don't give it to President Bush.
That is all.
pax
Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. -- Rudolph Rummel