"There is so much going on and our own government is trying to do away with free speech as hard and as fast as they can go while our children are over seas supposedly fighting for other's freedoms."
Strangely enough, you never said the same whilst you God Emperor George Dumbya Bush was in the White House. Can you say 'Patriot Act', Ruptured Retards? Can you also say 'Wiretaps'?
"It is a constant battle just to keep your head above the water with so many cases pending trying to keep our freedoms."
More of the tinfoil (ass)hattery we've come to expect from Ruptured Retards. How's the shutting down of RR and the general persecution personally by President Obama going, hmmmm? Those black helicopters constantly hovering overhead must play merry hell with your praying and waiting for that Final Trumpet after all, eh?!
"The Democrats & ACLU are spearheading many such cases against the people of this country."
Are you Tweeting this whilst on a cattle truck heading for a FEMA camp, with above it's gates 'Arbeit Macht Frei'? No? Well then, STFU, and stop your Emo-esque whining. If you're not caught up in a right-wing Christian equivalent of the Holocaust, therefore you're not being persecuted.
"Why did people vote them in?"
Oh, I dunno. Maybe people who'd basically had enough of your God Emperor of Fucking Up, George Dumbya Bush. Even people who'd previously voted Repubican. Next question.
"Did they not know they were shooting themselves in the foot by doing so?"
Seeing as this was a quote from 2007, whilst Dumbya was still in office, the only things Democrats shot were fireworks of celebration into the sky after Obama was elected in late 2008. If you're referring to the complete fucking up of your country by said God Emperor of Fucking Up, the only ones who did the foot-shooting were you Repubicans. With an ICBM.