The New Lord Protector by Michael Coblenz

Most Republicans have been curiously silent about the recent news reports that President Bush has engaged in warrant-less eavesdropping on American citizens. This is surprising given their general hostility towards government power, and stands in stark contrast to their outrage over the Supreme Court’s Kelo v. City of New London decision this past summer. That case held that the government could take private property for use by other private entities as long as the government determined that there was some public benefit. After the Kelo ruling, prominent Republicans took to the floor of Congress and demanded immediate action to prevent such an egregious usurpation of individual rights.