For a party that purports to hate big government, these Republicans sure do seem to love Big Brother

Rep. Lloyd Doggett debating RESTORE this morning on the House floor:

“For a party that purports to hate big government, these Republicans sure do seem to love Big Brother. They demand unlimited executive power and unrestrained authority to intrude into our everyday lives. And today we dare to impose some limitations on one of so many examples of their callous disregard of our liberties. If even former Attorney General John Ashcroft, sitting there in the hospital bed, in intensive care, if even he could recognize the illegality of the surveillance which Dick Cheney demanded, why shouldn’t we in Congress be able to do the same thing? And if one telecommunications company had the courage to say no to this administration’s wrongdoing, why not the others?”

via firedoglake

Government has to grow, the same way corporations do, in relation to the population. That rhymed.

But seriously, it has to. When either side has power, one side wants A and B to grow, the other wants Z and Y to grow. That's how we end up in the middle, with a giant corpoment/goveration that owns every aspect of our lives. You wouldn't be in government if you didn't want at least some functions of it to grow. What a giant waste of money that would be.

in the bedrooms and cafes, on the phone and the computer. In everything else they desire Hobbesian anomie: consumer protection, corporate control of private lives and the public sphere, whipping the Debbil out of kids, guns (to defend your patriarchal homestead--as seen on survivalist TV!), environmental protection, social services, infrastructure--most everything that made humans collaborate into states once societies got big enough.