Common Obama Refrain? "Bush did it first..."

Will this be a common refrain by our new President?  It very well may be.  President Obama has taken my concern first articulated about the Bush Administration's Patriot Act to a level well beyond the concern I mentioned in 2005.  

I'm no prognosticator.  In fact to date I have been anything BUT a prognosticator.   One may notice from reading my opinions that they tend to be non-specific and non-judgmental in most cases. I typically "wonder" about things, speculate at best, and formulate opinions with the full realization that it is highly possible that I am wrong.  This is why I try to at link you to the facts.  This, because I've lived long enough to realize that I'm not one blessed with the gift of telling the future.  Perhaps my thoughts, plus your thoughts, plus the facts will result in some modicum of an accurate perspective.  We shall see.    

What I do have some understanding for is human nature, and  like the founders of our country I understand and believe that absolute power corrupts, absolutely.  This phrase, while being first attributed to Lord Acton in the 1800's was previously understood by the fathers of our country and resulted in the establishment of a three tier  system(commonly called 'branches') of government.  Each power endowed tier, is reliant upon the other to get something accomplished in a way that is enforcable by law.  In fact, this system was designed to act as a "check" for bad ideas.  Amazingly, it sometimes fails.  Which I guess offers credence to Winston Churchill's statement that, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried." 

In my limited view, The Patriot Act in it's current form was a bad idea.  We can thank GW Bush for that.  The government infusing trillions of dollars into private banking was a bad idea. We can thank GW Bush for that.  The drone will go on with President Obama and his task will be much easier because of the precedent set by his republican predecessor.   I expect that we will see a great deal of support for Mr. President Obama's methodology by examining the power grab's established in the Bush administration.    And the President is not being subtle about it.  Yesterday the New York Times asked the President if he was "...a socialist..." and his response was indicative of a refrain I suspect we will hear frequently, to wit:  "...I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn't under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks.  It wasn't on my watch. "  I imagine that there will be a whole bunch more of that justification process coming down the pike.  The defense itself, unfortunately, I suspect will be accurate all too often.

We saw a mild tryanny under Bush, watch out for an exponential increase in these tendencies from our new President.

May God Bless our President with wise counsel to avert this tendency.