Obama is president, even when it's the result of laws they crowed about and applauded when passed under Bush.

Republicans reflexively oppose - in fall-in-line automaton fashion - EVERYTHING that happens while Obama is president, even when it's the result of laws they crowed about and applauded when passed under Bush. They branded all who dared question the Patriot Act as traitors and cowards, and now insist that they had no idea that the recently revealed NSA surveillance was authorized by that bill. Not only is that total BS - given the fact that there have been 36 Congressional briefings on the NSA programs over the last four years - if they really didn't know what was in the bill they so ardently supported, that puts them "in bed" with one of their favorite targets... Like Nancy Pelosi, they "had to to pass the bill to find out what's in it." Except they never bothered to find out. It's similar to the way they now call the provisions under the ACA that were their idea (and which Obama and the Democrats included in the bill because the GOP insisted on them), "socialist government takeover of health care." The lemming-like willingness of so many Republicans today to obediently follow the ranting right fringe of their party is not only remarkable and frightening... it's downright disgusting. Their hateful hypocrisy knows no bounds, no limits on name-calling rhetoric, and no decency or willingness to accept responsibility for things they've enthusiastically promoted in the recent past.