For those living under a rock, or reading this 20 years from now (in whatever obscure archive or rubbish bin to which it might be relegated) the news have been awash with Snowden, a former NSA employee who has brought to light what we suspected all along....that they have been listening in to our all phone calls. All of them. Guilty or Innocent. We are all made equal by the intrusion in our lives.
Unlike a lot of the frankly ridiculous things that have come up lately against the President, this has serious weight. It started during Bush, but Obama consciously chose to continue it. People believe it. Snowden's proof is conclusive. While there are potentially questionable elements of Snowden, we must remember what happened to Manning and Assange....so any charges that come out against him have a very high burden of proof.
Regardless of the messenger, the message is quite alarming. Many, if not most, on the left and the right who aren't asleep, finally agree that this is unacceptable, and that something must be done.
Right...so...alone, those on the right and left are not going to make a difference. We need to join forces. And the conservatives need to be the one to initiate action.
Ever hear the phrase 'only Nixon could go to China?' It came from the view that a liberal or democratic president could not go to China without being painted as a 'weak commie loving liberal' thanks to the images painted on democrats by the GOP during the cold war. Mainly thanks to McCarthy. Thanks McCarthy.
Now a democratic president has to act tough. Probably some of the reason Obama is going to war in Syria...he can't appear weak. Democrats must not appear weak.
When Republicans begin attacking the president as incompotent, and that government can't work....and everything else that liberals do...and lie...and attack over and over again, no democrat who has any credibility can be seen working with dirty disgusting conservatives. They can initiate bills, but finding bipartisian support is not a priority. Republicans need to quit talking about Benghazi and Obamacare and the lies of the IRS "scandal" and focus on what is really important....
Like an intelligence community and the DHS and TSA gone frankenstein. THEY are the real threat to our liberties....and yet....
And yet they are incapable of doing this. Republicans not only can't apologize, they can't work and reach out to democrats for the good of the country. Republicans have attacked Democrats to the point that democrats can't do the same because to give an inch to insane Republicans is to allow them to put more insane things like birth control or the like.
I'm sure conservatives don't see it that way. They expect democrats to just do what they want.
It isn't going to happen. Democrats are cowardly, but they're not cowardly against the democrat in charge...they won't revolt against Obama in a case like this.
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