New for spring: Privacy Rights Revived

I must admit that I am feeling pretty good about the way things are shaping up. Yeah, we have a William Jefferson to deal with, but we also get Ike Skelton as HASC chairman. Sure we have some housecleaning to do, like you and me, politicians are human and not a damned one of 'em is buckin' for saint-hood.

We accept that we have a few corrections to make, and I'm confident we will make them. I for one am demanding accountability across the board. (Jefferson doesn't represent all Democrats any more than Mark Foley represents all Republicans. That being said, I have already emailed my congressman and expressed my views on Jefferson.)

But here is what has me dancin' in my jammies today...Patrick Leahy will be the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Patrick Leahy is a privacy advocate. He realizes that privacy and the right thereto resides witht he people, not with the government. Lets repeat that sentiment:

The right to privacy rests with the people, not with the government.

He will rein in the datamining operations that track what meal you have on a flight, what calls you make from your cell phone, what emails you send or receive. (If they are going to read my email they could at least delete the spam for me.)

Leahy chairing Judiciary is a good thing for our country, and a welcome respite from the onslaught of constitutional abrogation that has been the norm under the Bush administration.