NeoRepublicans in Action
Democrats are the New Republicans
Merely noting that Obama and his administration have expanded and extended some of the most egregious policies of the Bush administration can bring on the wrath of Democrats, or the New Republicans, as I like to call them.

Democratic voters put Obama Incorporated into office. After one year, they'll tell you, with a straight face, that "Obama's trying" but they won't address the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, unwarranted wiretapping, and the continued imperalistic expansion of the U.S. It seems to be okay by them. Democrats have more in common with John Ashcroft and Dick Cheney than they do with Thomas Paine or Benjamin Franklin. They are the New Republicans. Unreasonable search and seizure? Who cares, if you're a New Republican. Obama is doing his best, you know...

There are some facts that the New-Republicans simply don't want to acknowledge, either accepting or embracing the Obama-enforced edicts and laws just like their Republican brethren.

FACT: Obama supports the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus.
Try telling this to a New Republican and watch them shriek. As Nat Hentoff pointed out "..four months into his first year in command, Obama instructed his attorney general, Eric Holder, to present in a case, Jewel v. National Security Agency, a claim of presidential "sovereign immunity" that not even Dick Cheney had the arrant chutzpah to propose."

George W. Obama, by Nat Hentoff, January 12, 2010, Village Voice.com

Obama to Use Current Law to Support Detentions, by Peter Baker, September 23, 2009, Nytimes.com

Of course, what good is the suspension of haebeus corpus without prisoners, those people in "rendition". In October 2009, "Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement about the case, Shubert et. al v. Obama, that "there is no way for this case to move forward without jeopardizing ongoing intelligence activities that we rely upon to protect the safety of the American people." Obama Administration Invokes State Secrets Privilege…Again, October 30, 2009, ABCnews.com

On January 30, 2010, Newsweek reported that Justice Official Clears Bush Lawyers in Torture Memo Probe. The article states that "an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the “torture” memos of professional-misconduct allegations."

Duck fast after you tell New Republican that the current administration supports torture, past present and future. If they don't hit you, try telling them that:

FACT: The Obama administration supports warrantless spying on innocent Americans that the Bush Administration.
In April 2009, several news agencies, including the Electronic Freedom Foundation, reported that "The Obama administration formally adopted the Bush administration's position that the courts cannot judge the legality of the National Security Agency's (NSA's) warrantless wiretapping program, filing a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA late Friday." In fact, the Obama administration has gone one giant step further than the last regime, by arguing that "the U.S. can never be sued for spying that violated federal surveillance statutes, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or the Wiretap Act."

As Hentoff noted, "It is one thing, as the Bush regime did, to spy on us without going to court for a warrant, but to maintain that the executive branch can never even be charged with wholly disregarding our rule of law is, as a number of lawyers said, "breathtaking."

Try asking a New Republican if they think that this position is okay. Chances are, they'll accuse you of being terrorist. If you point out that this postion is contrary to the Constitution, then they may try and report you to Homeland Security. Obama Administration Embraces Bush Position on Warrantless Wiretapping and Secrecy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, April 6th, 2009, eff.org

But don't dare mention this to one of the New Republicans. Don't tell them that seven new bases are being built in Columbia as part of a March 2009 pact between the Obama administration and Columbia. They actually might go out and buy a new SUV knowing that the U.S. will now have access to that sweet Venezuelan oil.

Seven New US Military Bases in Colombia Is Hardly a Move to the Left,August 7, 2009 by CommonDreams.org