Obots and Headbangers are about to be disappointed. Nothing is going to be revealed and nothing is going to be changed.
I expect Homeland Security to go on steroids under Zero.
Zero will probably throw the Obots a bone, a name here and there who was exposed, but change it, no.
This is the most insightful thing I've read today.
Democrats were eager to trash perfectly legitimate exercises of executive power as long as they were frozen out of the executive branch. Now that they own it they will turn the page and sing a different tune. They are all about enhancing government power and making it more arbitrary. They won't even try to resist the temptation to use war as an excuse for doing what they do.
It isn't just the ACLU that's in for a rude awakening. The anti-war nuts are riding for a fall as well. Leftists surf any wave of anti-war sentiment they can find but, in power, they love the opportunity war gives them to advance the cause of statism. Wilson, Roosevelt and Johnson all exploited anti-war sentiment for electoral purposes and then became war Presidents. Obama isn't likely to be any different.
President Obama will probably be a grossly incompetent war leader, but he will embrace the role and use it to extend government control over American life as much as he possibly can.
And the silence from the anti-warriors and the civil libertarians will be deafening.
Yes, but their target will be Americans who disagree with The One and not terrorists. Big difference.