Beware Obama's Reach

When the last President Bush tried to ascertain the plans of foreign terrorists by eavesdropping on their communications with Americans, crazed, self-destructive civil libertarians gave him unshirted hell. Now, West Virginia Democrat US Senator Jay Rockefeller authors a bill to give our current President the ability to seize emergency control of the Internet, including private Internet service providers and the ACLU crowd hardly utters a peep. The left is not worried, Obama is so trustworthy he would never abuse a new power like that. We have an administration that seems bent on monopolizing the message with a new FCC head who idolizes Hugo Chavez and his tyrannical methods of manipulating Venezuela's media, a largely docile dinosaur press- content to distribute Obama's talking points, and new and dangerous schemes to silence opposition, and by the way, rid us of that troubling thing-the First Amendment. So, I had better type fast, with this crowd in charge, any given post could be my last.