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

[Savannahmann]

33. We needed President Obama to follow through on what Candidate Obama promised

We needed him to Veto the Reauthorization in 2011. He could have had all the television time in the world to explain to the people that the Constitution did not intend, nor allow this sort of thing to happen. He could have explained why he vetoed it for days, weeks, months. The people would have been shocked. The morons who vote Repug would have voted Repug anyway. The rest of the people would have seen a man who was a former Law Professor standing up for the Constitution, and their individual civil rights.

Instead, we have a man, who is continuing an abomination of a policy, who signed the bill keeping it in effect. President Obama owns this, lock stock and barrel. We could blame Bush right up until President Obama signed the reauthorization of the act.

Worse, we have the Repugs now lining up to oppose the program they started. Oh they'll claim they never intended this with the law. The fucking House will pass a resolution calling on proper restraint in exercising this. They will link to "Obamacare" and claim if the Government abused the authority granted by Congress, who knows what abuses they will inflict on the people under "Obamacare".

We needed the man who ran for the Democratic Nomination, instead we got John McCain in everything but name.