[Publius6961]

Just tell “conservatives” that they’re doing it to catch terrorists or “Bad people” and they’ll get behind it.

I reject your poor opinion of conservatives.
Speak for yourself and throttle back your convenient self-promoting presumptions.

[tricksy]

It’s not an “opinion”, it’s a fact — as demonstrated by even the most cursory review of the past eight years. The damage was done by Bush and a Republican Congress; Obama merely continued on that course.