Remember when the left was up in arms over the Bush Administration’s “invasions of privacy?”
The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual’s Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.
The administration wants to add just four words — “electronic communication transactional records” — to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge’s approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user’s browser history. It does not include, the lawyers hasten to point out, the “content” of e-mail or other Internet communication.
But what officials portray as a technical clarification designed to remedy a legal ambiguity strikes industry lawyers and privacy advocates as an expansion of the power the government wields through so-called national security letters. These missives, which can be issued by an FBI field office on its own authority, require the recipient to provide the requested information and to keep the request secret. They are the mechanism the government would use to obtain the electronic records.
So let’s take stock here:
The Obama Administration has amplified all of the Bush Administration’s worst traits – spending four times as fast, worthless on immigration and outstripping even the worst and mostly false allegations against Bush at civil liberties – and given up on all the good traits, the tax cuts and America-first philosophy.
I’m hoping for change.
No. Obama has been far better on civil liberties, and every other issue.
Worthless on immigration? Have you looked at the Obama illegal alien deportation numbers lately? They are higher than under ANY conservative president, not just Bush.
Those Bush tax cuts drove up the deficit, and never ever ever produced the benefits you on the right claimed for it. They only widened the gap in wealth, to the greatest gap between the majority of us citizens, and the top 2% to the most extreme in the industrialized western world.
Oh for God’s sake, Dog. The Democrats have controlled Congress since 2006. Find a new line of bullshit. The “it’s all Bush’s fault one has run out of stink.
Here is the picture.
DG name ONE civil liberty that has been enhanced under Obama.
DG
Funny! Seems that you overlook the following additional lies from your messiah;
1. The enemies of the state are still locked up at Gitmo, which, last time I checked, is STILL open.
2. He hasn’t repealed any of Bush’s homeland security monitoring measures, either. After all, what better way to monitor his useful idiots.
3. He didn’t expel his poor aunt that was here illegally and living in squalor in a Boston slum, but then, Bush had the chance to do it a week before the 2008 election, then liberalled out on it.
4. The taxes that he has already raised, specifically gas and tobacco, affect the poorer of the population the most.
5. If you think that YOUR income taxes are going to be unaffected by the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, then you really have no clue! EVERY tax bracket will be hit, including those poor unfortunate food servers!
In 2004 Obama said this:
It’s that fundamental belief — I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper — that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family.
At the time Obama said this his brother was living a Kenyan slum.
Things like this make you realize just how little respect the Obamatons have for the democratic process and the American people:
http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/memo-on-alternatives-to-comprehensive-immigration-reform.pdf
I think it’s fair to call Dog Gone a “useful idiot” at this point.
DG- “Those Bush tax cuts drove up the deficit…” Actually, they brought in more revenue than before the cuts were in place. The spending drove up the deficit. Nice try, though.
“Those Bush tax cuts drove up the deficit…”
Chanting point spotted!
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Federal gov’t spending in 2001: $1,863.2 billion
Federal gov’t spending in 2009: $3,517.7 billion
Spending increase between 2001 & 2009: 88.8%
Inflation for the period between 2001 & 2009 was about 20%.
Federal gov’t receipts in 2001: $1,853.4 billion
Federal gov’t receipts in 2008: $2,104.6 billion
It’s not the taxes, DG, it’s the spending.
Here’s an exercise for you, Dog Gone: if GDP grows at an average rate of 3.5%, and federal government spending grows at 8%, How long will it it take for federal government spending to equal 100% of GDP?