Today, in a rare, live broadcast of his weekly address, Bush excoriated Feingold and his colleagues for blocking renewal of the Patriot Act and (no kidding, this is a direct quote):

"I run the war on terror, Congress does not."

In his immediate reaction to the president's speech, Sen. Russ Feingold openly accused the president of breaking the law by authorizing the NSA spy program. He further accused the president of acting like a king. He said the congressional authorization given to the president after September 11 never contemplated wiretapping and labeled the president's reliance on it as "absurd."