Just when you thought it wouldn't get worse

This story (USATODAY.com - NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls) and this story (The USDA on Iraq: Everything's Coming Up Rosy) just make me shudder. I swear we're living in some neo-Stalinist state. I like the idea of communism (note the small c). I don't like Maoism or Stalinism as they pervert the idea of communism into an all-powerful dictatorship that demands staying on message. Bush has gone so far past the extreme right, he's nearing the extreme left now.