Government is Big Brother when it comes to privacy invasion. Democrats want you to love Big Brother. Republicans want you to fear Big Brother. So, they take different paths to the same ends. Republicans favor "War on XXX" -- in the '80s it was drugs. But at the end of the day, they all want to be in your shit more than you want them to be, more than your rights would lead you to believe they should be. Once there, they (at best) mishandle your privacy information and (at worst) actively abuse their power.