Please note that the point I was trying to make had to do with "If the people fear the government it is a terrible thing" vs. the Bush ear Conservative doctrine of "Who cares if they love me as long as they fear me".

Today Conservatives say that people fear the government because there is a terrible person in the White House. Eight years ago the only reason, at least according to Conservatives, for anyone to fear the government was because they were in the wrong and not the government.

When you truly think you can do no wrong you have lost all sense of reason and any action against anyone is just fine and dandy. After all, as Cheney said, the Constitution is just a piece of paper. Given that mindset why follow the rule of law?

It is refreshing to hear Conservatives admit that the government can make mistakes. There was an eight year period (which lined up with the eight years that Bush was in power) where questioning the actions of the government made you something besides a true American and the normal response of Conservatives was "If you don't like here then why don't you leave?"

It is weird for folks that don't believe in evolution to have evolved, but I am glad to see it taking place.