[George W. Bush]

Your comment indicates that you know it is a bad law. It is always a really bad idea to pass a bad law now matter who is in office.

Yes, of course, it's a bad law. But, barring restrictions on entry to this country and closing the border, it's unlikely we'll do any better short term. And we did manage to avoid the provisions of the renewal which were, as you know, permanent extension of the full Patriot Act, every odious anti-libery and anti-privacy provision intact.

We did all we could on this one. It really shows the changes that have happened over the years at FR that such laws could be renewed with so little comment here. We used to be so constitutionalist in the pre-Bush years. People forget what will happen if a Gore or a Clinton or a Kerry or a ________ holds the office.

Some of the emergency FEMA provisions are even worse and those date from the Eighties. After NOLA, one can scarcely imagine what FEMA would do with full federal police powers under martial law. Gungrabbing and forcible evacuations would be small stuff if those wackos took control.

[GrandEagle]

Some of the emergency FEMA provisions are even worse and those date from the Eighties. After NOLA, one can scarcely imagine what FEMA would do with full federal police powers under martial law. Gungrabbing and forcible evacuations would be small stuff if those wackos took control.

I absolutely agree. Too bad we couldn't have killed the whole law.

Cordially
GE