Opposition To NSA Surveillance Should Be A Bipartisan Issue That Unites Steadfast Conservatives And Solid Liberals

A recent Pew Research Center poll reports that both ends of the political spectrum oppose NSA surveillance.

Yet, congressional gridlock prevents Congress from taking action to protect Americans civil liberties. It is a strange albeit welcome sign that the Supreme Court can overcome its ideological divide and provide a unanimous ruling protecting digital privacy. It is not a welcome sign, however, that an unelected court is better able to bridge its ideological divide than those elected to represent all citizens. 

Quotation Of The Day: The NSA, The Convergence Of Strange Political Bedfellows, And Literature Edition

From this Alan Jacobs post explaining why those of the political left and political right can come together on NSA's surveillance:

This convergence is not new: consider, for instance, the astonishing overlap between the views expressed by the socialist George Orwell in 1984 and those expressed by the Christian conservative C. S. Lewis in That Hideous Strength, right down to the brilliant parodies in both of foully obfuscatory bureaucratic language. Both writers see the rhetorical subtlety by which the pink police state entrenches itself before ultimately revealing its true character. (Orwell didn’t seem to know quite what to make of Lewis’s novel when he reviewed it — he strongly disliked its supernaturalism — but it ended up having a significant influence on the development of 1984. Lewis for his part didn’t especially care for 1984 but thought Animal Farm was “a work of genius.”)