Hypocrites for Bush

Glenn Greenwald proves that Glenn Reynolds is a hypocrite. By noting how Reynolds supports BushCo efforts to claw all power into the Executive branch and contrasting it with his comments shortly after 9/11

Giving the President the power to eavesdrop on American citizens in secret and without judicial oversight, as Steyn eagerly advocates, is exactly the sort of Big Government, extremely intrusive power which conservatives and right-leaning libertarians have always claimed to oppose above all else -- in Reynolds' case even after 9/11. Given that FISA already permits extraordinarily aggressive eavesdropping (which would become even more aggressive under Feinstein-Specter), there is no justification for self-professed conservatives and libertarians to favor warrantless eavesdropping. To know why that is, just go read what Reynolds said about warrantless surveillance.

It really is a sad spectacle to see how many ex-conservatives and libertarians have followed Reynolds' path of completely abdicating their belief system in order to become consumed by blind support even for this President's most authoritarian policies. Only 3 days after 9/11, Reynolds was aggressively protesting even temporary warrantless surveillance as both unnecessary and unconstitutional. Back then, he really did see it exactly how Judge Taylor sees it now.

Yet now, he never utters a peep in protest about the President's secret decision to spy on Americans without any warrants at all, nor does he utter a peep about pending legislation which is about to vest that power expressly in the President. Over the last five years, this creepy, mindless ethos has become predominant among so many Bush supporters whereby nothing is more important than vesting more power in the Executive and rejecting any claims that the Leader has exceeded or abused his power.