Of course, your premises, which involve a certain amount of water-carrying of your own, assumes that tax cuts and things like drilling in ANWR are lousy ideas. Are you sure we're talking "logic" here, or just more politics?

BTW, you need to be kept up to date on FISA. A short time ago, if you listened to liberals here and elsewhere, FISA was the flagship of the fall of America and the utter destruction of the Constitution and our rights.

Now that the great Obama has voted for it? Not so much. If this was really all about the things mentioned above, and not just anti-Bush politics, liberal and leftist heads would be exploding all over the place right now. A few are, but not many. I would think the link I posted made that point in no uncertain terms. (BTW, there are a couple of updates on that link that you should check out.)

Do you understand how many people's opinions seem to be set solely by "my guy backs it" or "the guy I hate backs it?"

No objective observer of my positions over time can honestly say that about me. I bring more facts and numbers to back my arguments than almost anyone else here, and I don't back positions solely because a particular politician or political party back them. I have a specific political philosophy, and I had it long before Bush, or even Reagan. I've studied these things for years, and am still refining them. You'd be amazed at how dumb I was about libertarianism in college.

Do you think I'm against drilling in ANWR now because McCain is against it? I'm not against it, but by your lights I, as a political sock puppet, pretty much have to be, don't I?