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Patriot Act clears House, Senate

Capping a week of political bickering and parliamentary delays, the House joined the Senate on Thursday to pass a four-year extension of key provisions of the Patriot Act that was set to expire at midnight.

Because President Barack Obama was traveling in Europe, he signed the bill into law using an autopen, a machine that replicates the president’s signature.

The House voted 250-153 to renew three parts of the counter-terrorism surveillance law. Thirty-one House Republicans joined most Democrats in opposing the extension, while 54 Democrats supported it.

Hours earlier, the bill cleared the Senate on a 72-23 vote, with 19 Democrats and four Republicans voting no, mostly over concerns the Patriot Act violates personal privacy and civil liberties.

The week-long fight over parliamentary procedures and amendments left a trail of bruised egos and bad feelings in the upper chamber.

Freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a Patriot Act opponent who had used procedural tactics to delay a final vote on the bill for much of the week, eventually worked out a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to get votes on two of his amendments – but not before Reid accused the libertarian, tea-party darling of “political grandstanding” and trying to protect terrorists.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55803.html#ixzz1NYnWjeN0

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ORIGINAL: luckydawg

Just an admission that Bush was correct in virtually everything he did in fighting al Queda.


Remember Silence is consent!!

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

An admission that the bill is non-vetoable and that the fuckheads on the rabid right are ruining this country is all.

But you are free to pretend you can't count two thirds in both houses.

Its sort of sad and pathetic you cant count and have to ascribe this to magic. 

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

An admission that the bill is non-vetoable and that the fuckheads on the rabid right are ruining this country is all.

But you are free to pretend you can't count two thirds in both houses.

Its sort of sad and pathetic you cant count and have to ascribe this to magic. 

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Bush II

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ORIGINAL: EternalHoH

Wait a minute now.

The House voted 250-153 to renew three parts of the counter-terrorism surveillance law. Thirty-one House Republicans joined most Democrats in opposing the extension, while 54 Democrats supported it.

Hours earlier, the bill cleared the Senate on a 72-23 vote, with 19 Democrats and four Republicans voting no, mostly over concerns the Patriot Act violates personal privacy and civil liberties.


I'm not as worried about Obama being Bush II or a 'Clintonesque Republican' as much as I am worried that the bulk of "freedom" Republicans are still playing the terror card while most Dems do not.

You have this unique way of taking a continuing Republican civil liberties failure and turning it into being the Democrats fault.

That's bullshit.

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By the way, we can cancel NAFTA

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Nope - I still hear nothing