Here is the link to Krugman's article.

He has voiced everything that I have been thinking if not saying since Obama voted for the FISA bill which extended retro-active immunity to the telecoms for warrantless electronic surveillance. I recall at the time stating that Obama had lost my vote and support over that bill. Many accused me of being an inflexible ideologue or single issue voter unable to see the big picture. That my only other choice was McCain which was not an option. That last fact is the ONLY reason I pushed the button for Obama and the sad fact yet again is that I was not voting FOR a candidate but AGAINST the worse of two choices.

Krugman writes:



While I believe Krugman is absolutely correct in his conclusions, I wonder why he or anyone else is at all surprised. The moment Obama voted for the FISA bill it was clear as a bell that short-sighted political pragmatism governs his actions and decisions above defending the Constitution which is expedient and literally a meaningless piece of paper which is only invoked by politicians when it is convenient to advance their political agenda.

Just the other day the brain-dead MSNBC talking heads hailed Eric Holder for declaring that waterboarding was torture and the President is not above the law. What a sad day it is that such a declaration needs to be made. And how meaningless Holder's declaration. In the same hearing Holder said that he did not believe it was the job of the DOJ to prosecute previous administrations over differences in policy. That's what the law means to these people. The law is what the current administration says it is and nothing else. The law is a matter of "policy" determined by the current clowns running things. Waterboarding and torture is a matter of policy!

Only leftwing ideologues who want to "settle a political score" would want to see men prosecuted for waging unprovoked war resulting in the loss of 100's of thousands of lives, seizing anyone at the whim of a single man (POTUS) without judicial review or charges of any kind. Imprisoning them for years, torturing them. Warrantless surveillance is now the law of the land. The Constitution has been eviscerated and it has no defenders.

HOPE is a slogan. A very successful meaningless slogan.