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I know the points you were trying to raise. The main problem is your opinions are based on factually incorrect information.
You are factually wrong that Congress is the be all and end all of US citizen's rights. They have very little to do with the way law interacts with our daily lives...yet you want to lay problems with our rights at their feet. You're factually wrong that Congress has been answerable to the Democrats for the past 8 years.
If you think the Democrats in Congress were complacent and quiet over the past 8 years then you don't seem to pay much attention to coverage of the floor.
Even mainstream news programs covered the outrage over the political appointments to the court and various regulatory agencies. At least one time a national debate erupted over the role and legality of filibustering.
Now you want to blame the Democrats who didn't have the votes to stop various appointments and made very clear arguments in opposition to the ones they didn't have the power to stop when it's really your ignorance of how our political system operates and how these agencies have a much greater effect on our every day rights than you realize that is to blame.
If you're talking about civil rights and decades of established law regarding our right to peacefully assemble without government intrusion, government eavesdropping, data mining, roaming wiretaps; or if you're talking about reversing decades of tax code to benefit corps that buy failing companies to circumvent tax obligations; then the sky did fall. It is falling. And these conversations arose as a direct result of Bush's actions, not before he was elected or in office.
Of course you can't engage in the discussion you sparked because you are wrong...and I have a hunch you knew you were wrong when you typed it but decided it would be too much fun to poke your fingers in a liberal's eye. Of course, this time it's different because Democrats are in power so your personal and unfounded attacks on them just appear infantile and ineffective.
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