OK. What I understand happened is that the Dems and some Republicans voted to not extend the Patriot Act while most of the Republicans did.
Now, my understanding is that the Patriot Act is not something that conservatives would support for the reasons listed in the thread.
However, I understand also that the TEA party supports extending the Patriot Act.
Considering that I disagree with dems on virtually everything and agree with the TEA Party on almost everything, I am puzzled as to why voting to not extend this fell out the way it did and that I think the dems voted correctly.
Having the dems do something that I think sounds like the right thing to do always makes me take a good hard look at what’s going on.
What am I missing here? There must be something that I am not aware of. Either that or hell just froze over.
Who exactly do you mean by "the Tea party"? I think the majority of those who call themselves teapartiers do not support the patriot act
although I know some in Congress chose to support the extension.