Senate computers have virus problems. Senate Dems have consistency problems.

When the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms used a recent virus infestations of Senate computers as an excuse to keep people away from the Conservative leaning Drudge report, it exposed a lot more than just the shallow attempts by Liberals to censor conservatives, but also the hypocrisy that Liberals have when applying their political philosophy to themselves.

How hard would it be to keep viruses and malware of Senate computers (assuming we’re talking about the 100 Senators and their staffers) Pretty easy. Both my wife and one of my sons had a problem with an infection on their computers. My solution was to clean out the system, then set them up with a non-administrator account to do their daily stuff. They ask me whenever administrative approval is needed. I have to do something maybe once every couple of weeks. So it would be fairly simple for the Senate to put all access to Senate computers as non-administrative (it doesn’t matter what OS, because they all operate this way) and hire some full time IT people to handle any administrative duties.

However, that would require all of the Senators and their staff to sacrifice a little bit of their freedom in exchange for the necessary security. Isn’t that pretty much the core of the Democrat platform?

Want healthcare without “paying” for it? Sacrifice the freedom to choose quality healthcare for the security of government provided crapcare.

Want a nice social “safety net” to fall on when you screw things up? Well, sacrifice your freedom to earn a decent living and the Democrat controlled government will gladly provide you that “safety net” that’s so comfortable many people use it as a hammock and camp out there.

All of the things the Democrats are pushing for offer security at the expense of freedom, yet they still allow all their computer users administrative access to sensitive government information? Sounds like some people don’t like living under their own imagined “utopia”.

Posted by Danny Carlton at March 16, 2010 9:23 AM