Posts Tagged Glenn Beck
Wizards of Moronic Destruction (WMD) in Louisiana Watergate Have Assured Senator Landrieu’s Re-election
Posted by Lance Haley in 2010 Election, 2012 Election, Campaigns, Conservatives, Crime & Punishment, Glenn Beck, How and Why We Get Screwed, Legal & Justice, National Security, Politics, crime on February 11th, 2010
Well if you are too young to remember the Watergate scandal, it almost tore America apart at the seams. In fact, our country has never been as close to a Constitutional crisis as it was back in 1974, when President Richard Nixon was serving his second term in office. With impeachment proceedings looming, Nixon was forced to resign as President of the United States for his participation in the Whitehouse’s cover-up of a burglary of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) offices in the Watergate office building in Washington, D. C. by Republican operatives at the direction of staff members of the Nixon Administration.
This is certainly not to insinuate that anything as remotely sinister as the Watergate scandal crimes against the country took place down in Louisiana near the end of January. However, there are some very strange similarities that cannot be overlooked in respect to the Watergate burglars and the perpetrators of this political criminal escapade in Louisiana.
First, in both cases at least one of the men had a relatively cozy relationship to a U.S. intelligence agency. E. Howard Hunt was a former C.I.A. officer, and one of the Whitehouse operatives who planned and helped execute the break-in of the offices of the DNC. In the present case, it was reported today that Stanley Dai was the assistant director of the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence program at Trinity Washington University, a small Catholic college in Washington D.C., – a program completely funded by the National Intelligence Agency. Moreover, Dai was listed as the principle contact for a symposium that featured officials of the National Intelligence Council, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the C.I.A.
Second, in both cases one of the participants has a “relationship” to a federal law enforcement agency. In Watergate, it was the still-infamous G. Gordon Liddy, a former F.B.I. agent who assisted Hunt in the planning and execution of the burglary. In the Louisiana case, one of the participants is Robert Flanagan, the son of Shreveport-based acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan.
Third, it should come as no irony that in each of these cases the actors were low-level political hacks obviously trying to infiltrate offices of Democratic party members and engage in politically-motivated espionage in order to win an election. It should not be lost on anyone that for these petty criminals, democracy is far too dangerous to be left in the hands of the your political opponents.
Finally, the participation in the Louisiana case by one of the principles in the political “sting operation” to discredit ACORN - a molehill that looks bigger than a mountain to Glenn Beck’s deranged mind – should give a whole new meaning to political karma.
To James O’Keefe: a word of advice - acting like a big pimp when you are just a little political whore will eventually catch up with you.
President Obama: Yes! It’s The Economy, Stupid.
Posted by Lance Haley in Bailouts, Banking, Business and Money, Campaigns, Capitalism, Congress, Conservatives, Credit Card Industry, Dick Cheney, Economics, Financial Crisis, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Government, How and Why We Get Screwed, Media & Communication, Politics, Sarah Palin, Senate, Show Them the $$$, Tea Party, Wall Street, Wealth Disparity & the Ultra Rich, financial industry on January 22nd, 2010
President Obama has been beyond a huge disappointment.
The reasons for his significant failure in the first year of his Presidency are varied, and yesterday I read a very insightful essay on MSN Money by Paul B. Farrell of the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch that hones in on a number of opportunities Obama could have seized upon as a result of the financial collapse that would have allowed him to increase the already significant political capital that he possessed on the day of his inauguration.
In the simplest parlance - he blew it!
This writer will have more to say on the specifics of those issues, but that is for another entry posted here on this blog. More importantly for purposes of today’s entry, I offer a humble mea culpa for my idealistic beliefs that this man was really different from all the others. I pride myself on being intellectually honest enough to admit that I was wrong about Obama’s willingness to effectuate any substantial change in this country with acumen and finesse. How stupid of me to believe that he would really first focus on the one issue that was at the forefront of every voter’s mind since November, 2007 - one year before the 2008 election – and has continuously been the leading issue for the past two years.
In the words of James Carville’s famous political mantra for the 1992 Clinton campaign, “It’s The Economy Stupid!”
Suddenly this week, the President finally has this incredible revelation that he needs to place the issue of the economy, as well as attend to financial system reform, at the top if his agenda? President Obama – how could you and all of these ostensibly intelligent people you surrounded yourself with have possibly missed that most salient and readily available information? Why did you not immediately address the failure of our economic system in it’s present form to serve the interests of its citizens, and redress the ongoing transgressions by the men who were responsible for single-handedly wrecking the underpinnings of American Capitalism? Why did you not implement substantial changes in how our economy is managed by imposing strict accountability, transparency and limitations on how the banking industry operated? Why did you trust that these financial terrorists would not not rob the national treasury for their own personal gain, instead turning a blind eye to their obvious avarice and indifference to the economic welfare of the country? Why did you not instruct Tim Geithner and the Treasury Department to direct the lending institutions to focus all of that available financial capital at shoring-up businesses and home values in order to preserve the essential assets so critical to the future of the American people, instead of bailing out these corrupt and incompetent financial giants? Why did you not utilize the available “bully pulpit” to chastise both your party and the Republicans for their unwillingness to use their legislative powers to immediately reign in these predatory financial giants, because of the “river of dirty money” (campaign contributions) running through Washington, D.C.?
Instead, you choose to ignore the over-arching importance of these matters, and wasted all of your hard-earned political capital by rubber-stamping the bailouts, and then embarking on an agenda of reforming an equally complex and failed health care system – a pathway that was historically fraught with political pitfalls and epic battles against powerful wealthy corporate interests. Anyone studying the history of American health care reform would know that simple fact.
Now, before any of you Conservatives start hooting and hollering in celebration of my criticism of the President, or my ”concession” regarding his obvious failures, let me inform you that your intellectual dishonesty for the past decade has been nothing short of shameful. Lest you think you are blameless, your willful ignorance of, as well as refusal to admit, the abysmal failure of your leaders, party, spokespersons, and Conservative media to improve the status of this country and its people - particularly Bush, Cheney, Palin, McCain, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Fox News, etc. - is completely reprehensible, and gives you no standing to believe that you have something to crow about.
You don’t.
In fact, part and parcel of Obama’s inability to effectuate change has been due to the ”political noise” you either countenenced or participated in during the election campaign in the Fall of 2008 as a substitute for reasoned and measured dialogue about what was wrong with this country. Labeling him a Muslim – when nothing is further from the truth, and cheering on those who claimed that he was “palling around with terrorists“, willfully distracted the American public from what was really at stake for the future of our country. Many of you continued to increase the sound of that chorus to a deafening roar after he was elected with the most utter nonsense – first claiming he was not a citizen in spite of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, as well as charging that he is a Socialist, hellbent on destroying the foundations of this nation, when in fact his predecessors that you supported, as well as their corrupt political business cronies, had already virtually accomplished that objective.
In so much as you have fostered and perpetuated these opinions by either expressed belief or passive silence as to the truth, you are partially responsible for the demise of this republic. Your behavior is utterly Un-American. It is an absolute certainty that history will be far less kind to you than it will be to President Obama.
Shame on you.
And if you happen to choke to death on your teabags, oh well . . .
Fox News’ Hiring of Sarah Palin Makes Our Founding Fathers Want a Mulligan on Freedom of the Press
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media & Communication, Politics, Populists, Sarah Palin, Tea Party on January 14th, 2010
At famous cemeteries all up and down the East coast, you can hear their contorted bodies rolling over in their graves at night. Our founding fathers are watching Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin invoke their names on Fox News as though these two are patriots to the principles of truth and freedom.
In her interview with Beck on Tuesday, Palin even went so far as to make a poorly veiled attempt at comparing herself to George Washington, stating that “he was almost reluctant to serve as president, too . . . that is who you need to find to serve in government . . . those who you know will serve for the right reasons because they’re reluctant to get out there and seek a limelight and seek the power. They’re doing it for people. ”
Notice her use of the word “too“, as in “I also am reluctant, but I will do it for my country”?
You can be certain those comments make Thomas Jefferson and James Madison almost wish they could take a mulligan on the 1st Amendment’s clause respecting Freedom of the Press. After all, even men as intelligent as they were could have never envisioned two demagogues like Beck and Palin both employed by the same network. Think about it. Could you ever in your wildest imagination have believed there would be this much self-aggrandizement polished and wrapped under the guise of news and opinions?
Well thank goodness, Jefferson and Madison were also intelligent enough to know that most Americans would not listen to shameless frauds like Beck and Palin. Our founding fathers had enough faith in the wisdom of the American people to know that the principles of reason and logic would prevail over the false words and deeds from even the most duplicitous and disingenuous hypocrites that were in our midst.
That’s called Freedom of Thinking.
Sean Hannity and Fox News’ “Inadvertant Mistake”
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Congress, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Fox News, Government, Healthcare Reform, How and Why We Get Screwed, Humor, Media & Communication, Politics, Populists, Tea Party on November 12th, 2009
This week Sean Hannity and Fox News were caught red-handed showing video footage of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally in Washington, D.C. in order to bolster the perceived attendance numbers of the marginal crowd at Michelle Bachman’s Republican anti-Health Care Reform “press conference” held last week on the Capital steps.
John Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, showed the video montage that Hannity played on Fox News. Stewart’s commentary accentuates the amateur manner in which Hannity and Fox interspersed the 9/12 rally video clips with the clips from the Bachman – Republican “press conference” held in early November. Stewart points out the obvious discrepancies with witty questions as to why the trees are all green in some of the footage, and obviously changing colors as occurs in late fall in the other video clips.
Both Bachman and her Fixed Shill (Hannity) claimed that the “press conference” crowd numbered somewhere between 20,000 to 45,000 people – which ironically is the estimated number of people attending the 9/12 rally. Video footage, and estimates by the three Capitol Hill police officers, placed the number at somewhere around 4000 people. One would suspect that if there were only three Capital security officers assigned for “crowd control”, the attendance was minimal – otherwise, more officers would have been called in for duty. The officer’s estimates are likely the most accurate given their significant experience in dealing with crowds on the Capital mall.
However, the real hypocrisy committed by Hannity and the ”fair and balanced” network was his on-air apology given this week, giving John Stewart his deserved credit, with the aside that this was an “inadvertent mistake”. So Hannity is conceding that Fixed News is incompetent as a journalism network? That pathetic excuse only confirms the extent to which Hannity, Fixed News, and it’s shills will set out to deceive the public, and then lie about the deception in order to cover-up their obvious slanted political agenda.
Unfortunately, the FCC (Federal Communications Corporation) will not likely take any action for this blatant attempt at skewing the news, since Rupert Murdoch’s manipulative minions will say that it is another conspiracy by President Obama to silence them. That the network’s viewers seemingly turn their head the other way only undermines their claims that the Liberal Media is one of the principle problems in this country.
Hey Fox viewers, the lies and distortions that you constantly rant about being disseminated in this country are right their on your TV screen. Turn the damn thing off and read something with substance if you want the truth.
Lou Dobbs, Master of the Pot Shot, Bids “Adios” Due to a Bad Shot
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Media & Communication, Populists, Race, Tea Party on November 12th, 2009
Dictionary definition Pot Shot or pot-shot: n. 1) A random or easy shot. 2) A criticism made without careful thought and aimed at a handy target for attack [So called because such a shot is fired by a hunter whose main purpose is to get food for the pot.]
When Lou Dobbs suddenly announced his resignation from CNN yesterday it came as no real surprise. Dobbs had been slowly developing into the other proverbial “loose cannon” on the deck of the oldest cable news organization, and his populist rant was revealing a deep-seeded and incendiary paranoia that has only been matched by Glenn Beck in the past couple of years. Ironically, it was CNN that inadvertently gave them their starts – and it was inevitable that the network would have to part ways with both of them (or vis-a-versa). Advertisers were not going to be penalized by his unpredictable rants which tended to insult vast numbers of minorities that purchase goods and services around this country.
Dobbs can certainly find greener pastures at Faux News Network, where he will continue to blame the woes of this country on illegal aliens and other boogie men. After all, a valid birth certificate released by the State of Hawaii has thus far not dissuaded Dobbs from continuing to insinuate that President Obama, himself, is an illegal alien. This only lends more credence to those critics who lam-bast him for his ”racist conspiracy theories”. After all, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck , it must be a duck.
However, the final irony herein is that after years of taking “pot shots” at the Liberal Media, Dobbs is now blaming them in another non sequitur reference regarding the fact that he and his wife were outside their home when a bullet was fired in their direction. Dobbs claimed that it was because of all of the hatred directed toward him by the liberal media, it inflamed someone to shoot at he and his wife because of his stance on illegal immigration.
Lou, double up on that Prozac tomorrow. Officials for the New Jersey State Police played down the whole incident, stating that the likely source of the obviously stray bullet was from a hunters gun, and that the bullet went into the attic of Dobbs’ house. Now if someone really wanted you dead, Lou, you would make a pretty easy target. I am betting you are not real fast on your feet, and you’re carrying enough spare tires around your gut to support a NASCAR team on race weekend. A bullet flying randomly into an attic either came from a long way’s away, or was such a bad shot that it does not merit worrying about. Trust me, Lou. If the shooter can barely hit the broad side of a barn, even a target as big as you is safe standing out in the middle of your front yard.
Either way, I just think it’s funny after all of the nasty pot shots you have taken at people, races and cultures over the years, that you are now complaining about a stray bullet that was not even likely intended for you.
Karma is strange. Isn’t it Lou?
PopuCon Teabaggers Give Whole New Meaning to Getting Teabagged
Posted by Lance Haley in Bailouts, Congress, Conservatives, Financial Crisis, Government, Healthcare Reform, How and Why We Get Screwed, Politics, Tea Party, Uncategorized, Wall Street, taxes on October 21st, 2009
There is an interesting disconnect between what the current populist-conservative Tea Party movement pretends to represent, and certain historical facts that undermine their agenda. The idea for this nascent PopuCon (Populist-Conservative) phenomenon which first appeared in Spring of 2009 is modeled after the Boston Tea Party, which was a protest against a tax levied on tea imported from England’s East India Tea Company to the American colonies.
Just one problem . . .
There have been no new taxes levied on Americans since the very day that President Obama was inaugurated.
Moreover, according to the group’s newest YouTube video promoting their Tea Party Express II tour, they are also protesting bailouts, out-of-control spending, and government-run health care.
Hey Teabaggers, did you also know . . .
1) that the bailouts (TARP funds) were approved, and the first $375 Billion were dispersed by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, when George Bush was President and the Republicans controlled Congress?
2) that George Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress took power in January 2001, outgoing President Bill Clinton had left them with a balanced-budget – which they subsequently decimated in six years, running up over $500 Billion in deficit spending (not including the $750 Billion allocated and spent on the Iraq War – which is borrowed from the Chinese government)?
3) Medicare, a government-run health care program for the American elderly, has been in existence for approximately 45 years, and some of your members would have no health care if not for this United States government-run agency.
I am still having a difficult time finding any pictures of protests regarding these very important facts (at least, according to your agenda) back in October, 2008. Can anyone help me?
This cup of tea is rather tepid and awfully watered-down.
You Can Be the Boss of Your Own Death Panel
Posted by Lance Haley in Humor, Religion & Spirituality, Uncategorized on October 15th, 2009
Just imagine. You take a little guided astral projection excursion into LaLa Land with the assistance of a self-help guru, and while you are out there wandering around in the universal mist, you decide you are having so much fun that you are never coming back. That’s right, people. For a mere $10,000, you too can arrange your own death, and leave this chaotic existence behind for an afterlife full of bliss and order. And the Obama Health Care Plan cannot stick it’s nose into this one.
What happened this past week is one of those inexplicable stories that should give pause to anyone seeking peace and comfort from religious charlatans and spiritual wackos. Two men died while participating in a New Age ceremony inside of a sweat lodge out in the desert of Arizona.
According to the website of Organizer/Guru James Ray, by attending his Spiritual Warrior workshop, “You’ll accelerate the releasing of your limitations and push yourself past your self-imposed and conditioned borders….You owe it to the rest of your life to get to Spiritual Warrior as quickly as you can.”
Well, the two guys who died “got to Spiritual Warrior” pretty damn quick by paying “with the rest of their life”, as well as giving Ray a $10,000 travel-guide fee, and if you believe the rest of this crap, I guess they are still out there wandering around and whooping it up in the eternal afterlife.
Guru James Ray was such a coward that he left right after the incident, and later contacted the remaining participants by way of a phone conference in order to help them bring closure to their “retreat”. Then a woman who called herself Barb got on the phone and told the listeners that a self-described “channeler” who was present at the ceremony said that the men who died had “out of body experiences . . . and were having so much fun that they decided not to come back.”
OK . . . that has to be code for some great LSD! After all, that is the only experience that seemed to make a fair number of people not ever want to come back to reality in the late 60’s or early 70’s. Now, it’s been a little over thirty years since I last checked, but a good “hit of acid” was only going for about five dollars back then (not that I ever bought any I’ll have you know). Even given a very liberal rate of inflation over the past three decades, in dollar-adjusted terms, I just don’t see a tab of acid selling today for $10,000.
For that kind of money I would do a week in Bora Bora instead, and hope to locate a shaman who would help me find some magical tree bark to boil down into a nice tea that would take me around the solar system for an evening or so. If I was lucky, I could hang out with Timothy Leary and Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison, raising Hell and tearing up the universe. It might even give me the experience of being a right-wing tea bagger, or a birther, or some other Far Out Right Wing Nut. What a crazy trip that would be. I could come back as a well paid Fox Network political analyst and tell Limbaugh and Beck all about it, and further help them convince their followers that Obama is a Communist agitator, Hell-bent on taking the country down, and leading us to disaster.
On the other hand, it probably was not LSD. Acid will not kill you, and you can not really overdose on it. Yes, it will make you bat-shit crazy if you take enough of it, which would only cause you to die because you decided that you could fly out the window of your buddy’s 10th story apartment window, or screw yourself to death in some massive orgy with hundreds of beautiful women. These poor saps paid ten grand to stand in a hot freakin’ tent with a bunch of other New Age idiots, and then collapsed to the floor due to dehydration. No attempts to fly, no drug-induced orgies with tons of beautiful women. They just sweated too much, fell down, and died.
Now that is one bad trip.
Poor Dr. Timothy Leary is rolling over in his grave right now. And the Plaintiff’s lawyers are probably lined up three-deep around the sweat lodge in their Armani suits and Nordstrom’s ties, with brief cases, video teams, stenographers, blackberries, and enough BMW’s to run a Sedona Grand Prix. Maybe the lawyers can get crystals from one of the local channelers, and hang them from their rear-view mirrors in the hope that it would lead these two dead guys who are wondering around the universe back to the sweat lodge long enough to give a deposition or two for their wrongful death cases.
Man . . . . these dudes got the ultimate rip-off. All they wanted was bliss and order. What they got was chili-dipped into a hut of hot steam and smelly bodies for Ten Grand, came out dead, and then were put straight into a Barnum and Bailey three ring circus under the Big Tent.
As P.T. Barnum was fond of saying, “There is a sucker born every minute.”
Same Old Wine in a Brand New Bottle . . .
Posted by Lance Haley in Business and Money, Campaigns, Capitalism, Congress, Conservatives, Economics, Government, Healthcare Reform, How and Why We Get Screwed, Lobbyists & Lobbying, Politics, Show Them the $$$, Uncategorized, Wealth Disparity & the Ultra Rich on October 6th, 2009
The tentacles of power reach as deeply into this Administration and Congress as they have with any of their predecessors (if you do not believe it, read this article).
Health Care Reform will be just another act of diluted legislative sausage-making, wherein they can all declare victory while their constituents are left wondering why there was so much fuss over so little substantive action. The polarized distinctions between Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives, are just fabricated drama for the Beltway politicos, P.R. hacks, media, and the likes of Limbaugh and Beck, all who line their already deep pockets by stirring more fear and loathing in an easily manipulated public.
These Foxes are not the real threat to the occupants of the chicken coop. To the contrary. The chickens are so busy pecking at the ground looking for a kernel of corn or two to feed their hunger for a little truth, while simultaneously focusing on these untrustworthy creatures, that they forgot it is the master that will likely be dining again on them tonite.
If you keep your eye on the foxes, you will never see the freshly- sharpened axe that is about to fall on your neck.
HIP HIP HOORAY!!! The LOSER is the U.S.A.
Posted by Lance Haley in Conservatives, Economics, Government, Politics, Uncategorized, United States on October 5th, 2009
Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh think of themselves as the consummate Americans. So do members of Americans For Prosperity. Nothing could be further from the truth. They all cheered when the U.S. lost the 2016 Olympic bid on Friday (I won’t even dignify Beck’s and Limbaugh’s pathetic declaration of joy with relevant links from this site – it’s shameful and degrading).
Would they have cheered against their country for losing an Olympic bid when Bush was President? None of them obviously realize the bid was placed by the U.S. government when Bush was in office. Anyone who would have cheered for such an outcome back then would have been labeled a traitor, a subversive, a Communist, Un-American.
They may wrap themselves in the American flag while they spin this whole agenda of “Wishing failure on Obama” as isolated and differentiated from wishing failure on the United States.
That dog just won’t hunt.
Message to any “FED” – Hang ‘Em High!
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Congress, Cultural Issues, Government, How and Why We Get Screwed, Politics, crime on September 24th, 2009
Beck and Bachmann on fear of government intrusion
First, let’s acknowledge how irresponsible it is to accuse any particular group for U.S. Census worker Bill Sparkman’s death.
However, the peculiar circumstances surrounding him being hanged from a tree – which law enforcement investigators in Kentucky have preliminarily ruled as a homicide – beg the question, why would anyone scrawl the word “FED” across his chest, and what would be their motive?
One could easily infer that it is possibly fear of government intrusion - see the video at the bottom of an article published today.
Are Glenn Beck and Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) really that distressed over government invasion into our privacy?
Well, recall back in 2005 when the story broke regarding the fact that the National Security Agency (NSA), operating under the directives of the Bush Administration, had wiretapped millions of American citizens’ private phone conversations under the guise of investigating possible links to terrorism. This led to an investigation by Congress into the extent of the wiretaps, whether they were legal, and whether they were being properly targeted in order to protect national security as asserted by the Bush Administration.
In order to assure the American public that the wiretaps were not directed at innocent citizens, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, in a White House press briefing, stated that these intercepts were only authorized when the government “has a reasonable basis to conclude that one party to the communication is a member of al Qaeda, affiliated with al Qaeda, or a member of an organization affiliated with al Qaeda, or working in support of al Qaeda.” and that one party to the conversation is “outside of the United States” [emphasis added].
When General Michael Hayden, former head of the NSA and then-acting Director of the CIA, was eventually called to testify before the Senate regarding allegations of unwarranted government intrusion into the lives of innocent American citizens, he unconditionally denied that the government was listening to private conversations that were not reasonably related to terrorist activity. General Hayden stated, “[w]e are narrowly focused and drilled on protecting the nation against al Qaeda and those organizations who are affiliated with it,”
FACT: some of the conversations were between American couples (even servicemen and their spouses/girlfriends) engaging in the most intimate communications that had nothing to do with national security. That this is a gross invasion of privacy, and the most egregious form of governmental intrusion is beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Former NSA employee Adrienne Kinne, who was awarded an NSA Joint Service Achievement Medal in 2003, along with one of her fellow NSA peers, came forward in 2008 and pointedly criticized the NSA’s continued targeting of obviously innocent American citizens. She proudly stated that sometimes the intercepts did result in information that may have interrupted potential terror attacks in Iraq, and therefore saved American lives.
Yet, Kinne noted the problem was all of the wasted time and resources spent focusing on these innocent Americans, when it could have been directed towards finding the proverbial “needle in the haystack”. As Ms. Kinne so poignantly stated, “[b]y casting the net so wide and continuing to collect on Americans . . . it’s almost like they’re making the haystack bigger and it’s harder to find that piece of information that might actually be useful to somebody,” she said. “You’re actually hurting our ability to effectively protect our national security.”
So Glenn Beck and Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann. . . where was the outrage regarding government intrusion back then?