Senator Jack Reed : “And again, I think it goes to the point of that their first response is, you know, come up with a catchy slogan, and then they forget to do the hard work of digging into the facts and coming up with a strategy and resources that will counter the actual threats we face.”

The Democrats are the party that lacks ideas - check, got it! But slogans and buzzwords are the Republican forte and have been for quite some time. Very little time for development of good policy. Back in the 80’s they had the politcal capital to make real headway in the effort to curb entitlement spending but chose “tax cuts”, “trickle down” and “welfare queens” over doing the hard work. The efforts at policy today remain the same. The party of ideas - limited government, fiscally conservative, strong foreign policy - lacks the desire to turn those ideas into successful policy. 

Resource Articles:

1. Wall Street Journal: Should Web Search Data Be Stored?
   Key point: Kevin Bankston of EFF argues “Average Internet users probably don’t even realize that AOL, Google, etc. are keeping logs of their searches, logs which in many if not most cases are linkable to a particular user. And even if they do realize that, they still have no idea how long that data is stored, nor what exactly is done with it, nor with whom it is actually shared.” 
2. Electronic Frontier Foundation: How To Keep Your Search History Private
   Very few average users would know how to shut off cookies for a few sites. If they shut off cookies for all, they would lose access to many of the features they want and would be constantly harrassed with dialogs requesting they activate cookies. As for using an anonymizing proxy, or proxy network like Tor, to prevent search engines from learning your IP address, that well exceeds their effort threshold.

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