The roaring chorus of dissent and objection to America within the Democratic Party is always strangely silent whenever there's a Democrat- any Democrat- in the White House. If the exact same series of events and actions that have transpired since Bush took office had happened on Clinton's watch, exactly the same things- the Left would be completely supportive of it. Iraq, Afghanistan, counterterrorist surveillance, all of it.
Washington politics ought to be about what is right and wrong. It isn't of course. It is about who is right or wrong.
What the left is really carping on is the fact that they're not in power. That is the sum total message.
The scary part is that they would rather destroy this nation than let the Republicans run it.