Oy vey.. talk about taking a political hot potato and making it au gratin!

It sounds to me like the Republicans, who can't seem to find a way to get us out of the escalating mess they got us into in Iraq, are trying to capitalize on, not to mention heighten, the public's hyper concern over the exploitation of children.

McCain is a sell-out, that's for sure. He used to be a rebel, now he's just a shill, and he's helping to fan the faux flames that Alberto Gonzales created solely on the basis that it elicits a reaction from well-meaning Congressmen who are too busy to ever look these propositions over carefully. Pass the rubber stamp to the next seat, please...

Frankly I think that this whole thing is only going to create more of a problem than there already is insofar as CP is concerned. The war on drugs has only exacerbated the problem of drug abuse in this country. The war on terrorism has only made the world more unsafe. Now this... they've managed to turn a relative non-problem into a huge problem for anyone involved in the internet.

It seems simple, but perhaps if parents watched their children more closely, the pervs living down the street from them might not have the opportunity to take salacious photos of their offspring... The answer isn't making the internet into a police state. The answer is more likely to be encouraging one parent per family to become a stay-at-home parent so they might more closely monitor their progeny as was customary forty plus years ago in this country.

Frankly, I wish they'd focus all that misspent energy on ridding the internet of invasive and malicious spyware. I don't think McCain or any of his rubber-stamping mates are going to win an election based on this.