I'm with him on being completely annoyed, angry, and worried about the complete lack of outrage on the left. I'm not so much shocked by the behavior of the Democratic politicians, but by the bloggers who were so outraged by Bush's overreach but aren't the least bit phased because they trust Obama to wield the power of the One Ring.

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Baker also noticed this: "Some liberals acknowledged in recent days that they were willing to accept policies they once would have deplored as long as they were in Mr. Obama's hands, not Mr. Bush's." As but one example, the article quoted Jennifer Granholm, the former Michigan governor and fervent Obama supporter, as admitting without any apparent shame that "if this was Bush, I think that we would all be more up in arms" because, she said "we trust the president". Thus did we have - while some media liberals objected - scores of progressives and conservatives uniting to overtly embrace the once-controversial Bush/Cheney premises of the War on Terror (it's a global war! the whole world is a battlefield! the president has authority to do whatever he wants to The Terrorists without interference from courts!) in order to defend the war's most radical power yet (the president's power to assassinate even his own citizens in secret, without charges, and without checks).

Yay change! Ugh.

Some relevant cartoons:

http://thismodernworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/TMW2012-03-14colorlowres1.jpg

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/11/1185328/-Professor-Droney?detail=hide

http://boingboing.net/2012/03/14/tom-the-dancing-bug-hello.html

I especially like "What if the president is a former Constitutional Law professor?" in the third one.