House votes to renew Patriot Act

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House votes to renew Patriot Act - Meredith Shiner - POLITICO.com

After a wave of news about attempted domestic terror attacks, Democrats facing a tough election year quietly voted this week to extend the Patriot Act legislation that many of them had decried under former President George W. Bush.

The House passed a one-year reauthorization of the Patriot Act Thursday night 315-97, just a day after the Senate moved the bill on a late-evening unanimous voice vote.

“In the end, it became non-controversial,” Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told POLITICO. “[There was] the growing concern about increase on the pace of attacks on the homeland... and frankly, I think the Patriot [Act] got a bad name under the Bush Administration.”

Thoughts?

 

[KingNick865]

uke5:

 

[BigPapaVol]

Those bastages are trampling all over the average American's rights.
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[KB5252]

Those bastages are trampling all over the average American's rights.
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The left has less and less high ground to criticize the last administration, don't think it will stop them though.

I'm so glad this country voted for hope and change.

 

[Lexvol]

Those bastages are trampling all over the average American's rights.
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As if to say..."take all of my earnings if you like, but don't listen in on my conversations with my aging parents."

 

[CountVolcula]

Big Government

Aint it Grand!!!

 

[myrobbins7]

Hope and Change!!!

 

[WA_Vol]

First thought, George Orwell: 1984

 

[WA_Vol]

Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.
The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans.

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens’ rights - Blogs from CNN.com

 

[KB5252]

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens’ rights - Blogs from CNN.com

I'd like to know if democrats felt the same during the last administration or if they simply like the idea of big government.

 

[CountVolcula]

Looks like I need to purchase me a Guido Fawkes mask

 

[volinbham]

Those bastages are trampling all over the average American's rights.
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Only when Bush was in charge.

 

[gsvol]

The left has less and less high ground to criticize the last administration, don't think it will stop them though.

I'm so glad this country voted for hope and change.

High ground???? To me they appear to be doing double time in quicksand.

I hope to live to see the day there is nothing left of them but their silly little hats (and maybe a few bow ties) lying silent atop the muck.

 

[tim]

And I was just about to get that Library card. Dammit, I'm gonna have to wait.

 

[IPorange]

High ground???? To me they appear to be doing double time in quicksand.

I hope to live to see the day there is nothing left of them but their silly little hats (and maybe a few bow ties) lying silent atop the muck.

They have silly hats?

 

[gsvol]

They have silly hats?

You didn't notice???