Here and There

Of course they’re spying on us.

Okay, I know, it’s really scary and probably illegal and pretty much a bad Jerry Bruckheimer plot, and overall it’s one of civil libertarians‘ (my favorite flavor of libertarian) worst nightmares, but should we really expect anything less?

Should we expect our reactionary, failed-opportunity, eyes-off-the-ball (I break the rule of no sports metaphors with pleasure), tax-cuts-and-sweet-unjust-backroom-energy-dealing, scariest grandpa you could imagine “leaders” to enact anything less than this?

It’s a tired reminder, but they weren’t elected. Sometimes my mental processes get stuck on that fact, and I can’t even visit the million (okay, seven or eight) things that have happened since.

THEY WERE NOT ELECTED. Wow…

And can I quickly point to the results of the last time it happened that our president wasn’t actually chosen by the people?

One of Rutherford B. Hayes’ (Republican, eventual “winner” of the election of 1876, and bearer of the name “Rutherford”) most striking characteristics was, in the words of a politician at the time, to be “obnoxious to no one.” The contrast couldn’t be more striking.

But I digress.

My point was we shouldn’t be surprised by this newest revelation, that governmental spying reached further than originally reported and commented on by the Administration. After all, we are a dangerous lot.

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