Hume cites "perception" of Dems being "reflexively anti-defense and anti-spying"

Yeah, anti spying on our own citizens, without a warrant. Funny thing is, there is something else out there that is against this as well. It's called the Constitution.

And under a democratic president, Obama, defense spending was increased what, 4% or so? How is THAT anti defense again?

Anti-military spending is NOT the same as anti-defense.

The truth, that apparently nobody is allowed to say anymore lest they be branded unpatriotic, is that the vast majority if military spending has nothing or very little to do with defending the United States. We could probably slash the military spending budget in half, and our national defense would not be impacted one bit.

And BRIT HUME is anti-truth.

We're in the terrible aftermath of eight years of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney administering our federal government and all of it's Departments and Agencies, the Pentagon and the CIA included (and for about six of those years, Republicans were leading Congress).

A majority of the American People were unhappy, even angry, at Bush and Cheney and the way they maladministered our federal government, the DOD and the CIA especially, and the People demonstrated their dissatisfaction and anger even, in the national elections of 2006, and again in 2008 (and they were unhappy and angry with Congressional Republicans too, and obviously took all of that out on them in 06 and 08).

And so a lot of Americans got accustomed to opposing the policies and operations of the Pentagon and the CIA, when in truth it was the Bush and Cheney administration of those Departments they opposed, and in truth (I think) the American People were not really opposed to the functions and responsibilities of the DOD and the CIA...

Does that make sense? It does to me. It's how I feel and think about the matter.

And even back then, in those eight terrible years, as much as I hated George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as much as I didn't trust them, and worse than that, as much as I thought (even knew) them to be just malicious liars and criminals who had stolen the Presidency in 2000, I still didn't confuse the real and true functions of Law enforcement and National Security, with the leering cackling distorted faces of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney... I knew that the DOD and the CIA and the FBI were not in fact the faces of Bush and Cheney, but were people who were doing the job because that's their career, and maybe they didn't like Bush or Cheney any more than you or me or a majority of the American People did... that the many career people in those Departments and Agencies weren't 'Bushies', never mind not being Bush himself... I knew George W. Bush was just the leering cackling hunched over criminal and thief and liar who stole and inhabited the Office of the Presidency... and all the time I hated and opposed him and Dick Cheney, I never once truly opposed the DOD or the CIA or the FBI, but just the administration of them...

Well anyway, I think that's an important thing to note here, so important that it's sort of a Principle of Civics and of Law and Government : that we can and should question and oppose the administration of our government, but as far as the important and serious and even life protecting and life saving functions of government, we should never get confused, and never appear to be opposing those things too, in our opposition to the administration... it's an important distinction to make.

There's that image of tossing the bath water off the back porch, and whoops there goes the baby too!

You know that image, and how it applies here.

The new administration of our federal government is now under the responsibility and in the custody of President Obama... good I say! Good riddance to the leering cackling hunched over criminals and liars George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as they are now private citizens, and have no more authority today over the DOD and the CIA than do you or I.

It's absolutely necessary to make that distinction between the true and real and serious functions and responsibilities of the CIA, and the persons who administer that Agency.

The same is true in making the distinction between the U.S. Armed Forces and their responsibilities, and the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, who is presently a man we can trust, and who we need not oppose I say (maybe you will agree), and who we need not question his decisions, or insist he account to us his every thought and move in these matters, as though he were so untrustworthy and incompetent that we were obliged to micro-manage the operations of the DOD and CIA over his shoulder...

The last eight years were like that, and they were terrible I say... I'm more than glad they are over, I'm relieved, as though I can get back to more important things in my life, and stop wasting any more time than I already have, hating and mistrusting the President of the United States.

And I hope all of that made sense, because it does to me... and I hope it seems applicable here, because I believe it is, especially the part about us distinguishing the functions of our government, especially the function of the CIA, from the administration of the same.

Why doesn't Hume just get it over with and become the head of the RNC ?

Gee... I wonder where that "perception" came from? Maybe under the same rock as the "perception" that there is a Liberal bias in the Media?

Could it be that Hume and his cronies have artificially fostered those "perceptions"?

typical right wing talking point started by conservatives and spread by conservatives and in reality believed by very few.