Al Gore the corporate wh@re is the classic 'me too' politician. Now that the peanut gallery is starting to grumble and murmer loudly about Bush's heavy-handed approach to 'security', he sees some advantage to proclaiming his outrage--as if he 'invented' the concept of outrage.

BTW: Al Gore knows a thing or two about trying to shrink .gov -- he headed the 'Reinventing Government Project'. A project to privatize and sell off wholesale huge swathes of public services, property and community holdings.

He's been on your team all along, and you didn't even know it...