Seriously … civil libertarians have been telling us for ten years that the Patriot Act allowed NSA to monitor phone calls of Americans. Many of us have spoken out against this intrusion, but were yelled down as being “terrorist sympathizers” and so on.

Now suddenly the program is being brought up as a terrible overreaching of the government.

Well, duh. Yeah, it is. It’s been that way since the Bush administration.

Then I started realizing who the biggest complainers were — the Republicans are attacking Obama with a vengeance over this. You remember the Republicans, don’t you? They’re the ones who wrote and passed the Patriot Act, and renewed it consistently.

Admittedly, some Democrats supported it, and still do, and some Republicans are not attacking Obama and are also defending the Patriot Act’s provisions. But, as Harry Reid said, “This is nothing particularly new.”

It’s only new to John Boehner who now apparently hates it (because he thinks he can make Obama look bad) despite having voted for it many times.