Actually, quite a few Republicans took Bush and his administration to task for their civil liberties antics. Quite a few others looked at the actual effect of those policies and measured them against the threat we then faced and found those policies acceptible - with proper checks and balances.
You'll note how it's Republican appointed judges who were formerly taking the Dubya to task for his violations are now taking Obama to task for the same antics.
As to the spending, there were no few "traditional" conservatives who were outraged at the "blank cheque" approach the GOP had come to take during the Bush years. They quite accurately forecast the defeat at the polls such negligence would entail.
It's been interesting to listen to some folks criticizing the Tea Party protests who have gone on record as stating them to be "racist." The hypocrisy runs deep indeed.
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Date: 2009-04-16 11:37 pm (UTC)Actually, quite a few Republicans took Bush and his administration to task for their civil liberties antics. Quite a few others looked at the actual effect of those policies and measured them against the threat we then faced and found those policies acceptible - with proper checks and balances.
You'll note how it's Republican appointed judges who were formerly taking the Dubya to task for his violations are now taking Obama to task for the same antics.
As to the spending, there were no few "traditional" conservatives who were outraged at the "blank cheque" approach the GOP had come to take during the Bush years. They quite accurately forecast the defeat at the polls such negligence would entail.
It's been interesting to listen to some folks criticizing the Tea Party protests who have gone on record as stating them to be "racist." The hypocrisy runs deep indeed.
Madoc