DRUDGE FLASHBACK: DEM LEADER HARRY REID ALL SMILES AT PATRIOT ACT SIGNING

The Drudge Report ^ | December 20, 2005

[Mo1]

Check out Smiling Hary ping

[Mo1]

That was also on October 26, 2001, about a month and a half after 9/11. The Democrats were tripping over themselves to show support for the President back then, because the polls told them to.

Did ya catch the camera that Leahy is holding

[A Citizen Reporter]

I just love this picture. It's much better than the old picture I have of Tom Daschle and Harry Reid, standing on a little bittie podium, addressing the press, trying to appear.....taller.

[Mo1]

President Signs Anti-Terrorism Bill
Remarks by the President at Signing of the Patriot Act, Anti-Terrorism Legislation
The East Room

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/10/20011026-5.html

[BigSkyFreeper]

Ya like that picture? I gave Drudge a heads up. :)

[Mo1]

I meed to get out more ... I totally missed this one

[Peach]

And Drudge has a huge readership from both sides of the aisle. Good picture that really says it all.

[hawkaw]

Well Drudge really did it this time.

What a great photo.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Reid has that look on his face like "I'm gonna stick it to this President. He's going down." or some such, because I didn't have time to check but I found a CBS News article, and Reid was pretty critical of the PA the moment it was signed into law.

[nopardons]

Damned Dem hypocrites!

[thebullhorn]

The irony is too precious. I'm guessing Harry Reid didn't choose to stand closest to the President because he truly believed in the bill rather to get the historic photo-op. His ego for the glam-cam returns to haunt him.

The same Patriot Act authorized the TSA and the creation of 28,000 (hopefully unionized) Federal employees. With the downsizing of screeners and the ultimate return of private screeeners, the Act has out-lived its usefulness in the eyes of some.