Why the NSA scandal belongs squarely in President Obama's lap

[TheKentuckian]

41. Fuck the TeaPubliKlan outrage, where was it when 9/11 actually happened on their watch?

Would they not be equally outraged if an attack occurred and Obama did use every tool?

Where they outraged when an attack actually happened and their guy could have stopped it with far less?

The logic is essentially circular to the point that what you present is an excuse not a reason, a rationalization at best and the thirty year prognostication pulled out of thin air based more on figment than fact.

Of course I don't subscribe to a brand of politics that insists on the pretense that TeaPubliKlans are honest brokers that want the best for the nation that we just happen to have a few disagreements with that we just want to meet in the middle with them on as a bizarre counter to their savaging us in the most absurd and often wholly dishonest ways that dictates an extremely defensive posture apparently motivated by the firm belief that the people don't actually agree with us and must be suckered into even the smallest movement in our direction or a desire to snooker Democrats into coming closer to the TeaPubliKlan way of thinking.

Either way it is worthless because the TeaPubliKlans dictate so even if they loose, they actually win because our best efforts are strictly limited to working their agenda under hopefully better management (which I am suspicious of being a long term good thing because it makes their shit more likely to stick and gain broad acceptance).

In my world we'd fight back, obstruct their awful agenda, place blame dead on them, call lies lies, and give the people a competing vision rather than an opportunity for alternative management of the same nightmare.