Some have mentioned: Why bring up NSA Spying now and not back in 2006?

[Cerridwen]

19. Because there was still hope that a government headed by

and/or run by a Democrat might, at the very least, trim-back the excesses of all the alphabet soup of police agencies.

As many of us tried to point out at the time, a D behind a candidate's name does not denote concern for human rights. That of course, brought the "Democrats are NOT just like republicans" Abortion! Gay rights! Civil Ri....er, uhm....

Detention for guilt-by-association, it's "only meta-data," Greenwald's a poo-poo head, and other fun and exciting phrases are entering the New Democrat's vocabulary.

Oh, and did you hear? The ACLU has had 2 cases in almost 100 years of advocating for civil rights that can be completely misunderstood and selectively quoted and used to prove it is not a "liberal bastion" fighting for "liberals everywhere," and with massive amounts of links to fives of r/wers who agree with me. Well, of course it's about civil liberties and that used to mean it dove-tailed nicely with liberal policies and positions. But, I guess those were those old, "far-left" liberals of myth, and song, and r/w nightmares.

Meanwhile, aei and american conservative are being posted as reliable sources of factual information and educated opinion.

I can't decide if I'm sitting under the bus or down the freaking rabbit-hole. Hmm, maybe the bus is in the rabbit-hole?