Bush hangover.

I realize we're in the post-Bush, Yes-We-Can era, but I find that I have not yet exhausted my outrage, courtesy of a recent link supplied by my pal Neal Bailey.

Then-President Bush seriously considered curtailing 1st Amendment rights to fight the War on Terror. How very American. And the utter hypocrisy of these plans being crafted by the same people who wrapped themselves up in the hollow rhetoric of "freedom" and "spreading Democracy" is just beyond the pale.

I'm sorry, but if you're a Republican or supporter of the Bush regime, well, we'll just have to agree to disagree. I think worrying about homosexual marriage and family values and all the neo-conservative hotbutton issues is appalling in the face of an Executive Branch clearly committed to gutting the Constitution. Doesn't get much more "Big Government" than becoming Big Brother, for chrissakes.

"In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the U.S. military to attack apartment buildings and office complexes inside the United States, deploy high-tech surveillance against U.S. citizens and potentially suspend First Amendment freedom-of-the-press rights in order to combat the terror threat, according to a memo released Monday."