re: #390 LudwigVanQuixote

Are you kidding me… We have that environment at all because of Bush.

Need I remind you of the excesses of the patriot act, or that we flew people to Syria for “special treatment?”

Dear God.

The only thing I hate more than conservatives who support such things are conservative who suddenly realize it’s really bad if someone else is in power.

Renditions occurred going back to Reagan, and Clinton, and Bush used the same policy - but Democrats called GWB on the carpet for it. Revisionist history is rampant on both sides of the aisle these days, but give it a rest with blaming Bush for the current political environment. It’s been that way for a good long time (and long before Bush, or Clinton, or Bush 1 for that matter).

As for the excesses of the Patriot Act, care to name one that hasn’t already been revised after further Congressional acts? For all the talk about excess, many of the policies have actually been continued by the Obama Administration (which isn’t much of a surprise to me given that the Executive isn’t going to give up power it has accumulated previously).