President Obushma

Welcome to the Bush-Obama White House: They're Spying on Us - NationalJournal.com:

From the perspective of individual liberty and national freedom,

Welcome to the era of Bush-Obama, a 16-year span of U.S. history that will be remembered for an unprecedented erosion of civil liberties and a disregard for transparency. On the war against a tactic—terrorism—and its insidious fallout, the United States could have skipped the 2008 election. 

It made little difference. 

Despite his clear and popular promises to the contrary, President Obama has not shifted the balance between security and freedom to a more natural state—one not blinded by worst fears and tarred by power grabs. If anything, things have gotten worse.

• Killing civilians and U.S. citizens via drone. 

• Seizing telephone records at the Associated Press in violation of Justice Department guidelines. 

• Accusing a respected Fox News reporter of engaging in a conspiracy to commit treason for doing his job. 

• Detaining terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, despite promises to end the ill-considered Bush policy.

Even the IRS scandal, while not a matter of foreign policy, strikes at the heart of growing concerns among Americans that their privacy is government's playpen. 

And now this: The Guardian newspaper reports that the National Security Agency is collecting telephone records of tens of millions of customers of one of the nation's largest phone companies, Verizon.

Here is the link to the original reporting about the Verizon order.

I perhaps immodestly point out that I foresaw all this the day after Obama's first inauguration ("You are the problem"):

Big government is itself apolitical. It cares not whose party is in power. It simply continues to grow. Its nourishment is the people’s money. Its excrement is more and more regulations and laws. Like the Terminator, "that’s what it does, that’s all it does." Roosevelt, Bush, Obama: we're a day into Terminator 3 now, and you know how that movie ends.

Obama, though, does have the distinction (of sorts) of being unfavorably directly compared to three presidents to whom historians are not kind, Carter, Bush and more recently, Nixon. There is a real hat trick for you.