While this is all tremondously frustrating it should surprise no one. Virtually everyone, Democrats included, knew that many of the attacks on Bush were nothing more than political posturing. But, they reason, all is fair in love and war, and they used their media advantage to full effect. Only people this stupid didn't get.

Still, as unfair as it all is, I am please to have it all confirmed: Obama is not going to open the doors at Gitmo; he's not going to pull out of Iraq; he's not going to shut down free-trade; and he's not going to turn the economy over to a bunch of loons (Volcker and Summers are not loons).

Anybody remember Echelon? The all seeing, all hearing, all reading surveillance program that makes Bush's wiretapping of Jihadi conversations to overseas destinations look like a tin-can-and-string phone set?

From:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/01/under_clinton_ny_times_called.html

The controversy following revelations that U.S. intelligence agencies have monitored suspected terrorist related communications since 9/11 reflects a severe case of selective amnesia by the New York Times and other media opponents of President Bush. They certainly didn't show the same outrage when a much more invasive and indiscriminate domestic surveillance program came to light during the Clinton administration in the 1990's. At that time, the Times called the surveillance 'a necessity.'

'If you made a phone call today or sent an e—mail to a friend, there's a good chance what you said or wrote was captured and screened by the country's largest intelligence agency.' (Steve Kroft, CBS' 60 Minutes)

Those words were aired on February 27, 2000 to describe the National Security Agency and an electronic surveillance program called Echelon whose mission, according to Kroft,

'is to eavesdrop on enemies of the state: foreign countries, terrorist groups and drug cartels. But in the process, Echelon's computers capture virtually every electronic conversation around the world.'