Michelle Malkin also has a nice little article out today, pointing out the flaw in some Dem’s criticism of the Administration’s snooping tactics:
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the selective outrage of the left’s privacy hypocrites–led by the likes of NY Dem Sen. Charles Schumer, the privacy champion who has yet to apologize to Maryland GOP Lt. Gov. Michael Steele over his stolen credit report (pilfered by two of Schumer’s former Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee staffers currently under investigation by the US Attorney’s Office in DC).
Now comes word from the Washington Times that the Dems “are drafting a strategy to attack the Bush administration and Republicans as having little regard for the privacy of Americans.”
Can you say chutzpah?
“Chutzpah.”
(Wait, that was a rhetorical question, wasn’t it?)
Anywho….yes, there’s hypocrisy, but that’s something that both the donkies and the pachyderms are guilty of. I’ve come to the belief that privacy is an issue most often championed by the opposition party in Washington.
For example, I can remember a time, not too long ago, when Republicans were the ones most likely to defend privacy rights (other than those acknowledged in Roe v. Wade) against the government-knows-best faction of the Democratic Party.
It seems that here, like in most things political, there’s more than enough hypocrisy to go around.
