Posted on 12/20/2005 1:40:42 PM PST by new yorker 77
The Senate's failure to re-authorize the USA Patriot Act over the weekend due to filibuster was a critical failure to provide law-enforcement agencies the vital tools necessary to fight and win the war on terror. Such action compromises the safety of the American people, undermines the progress we have made since September 11 and delays critical investigations.
A minority of senators has stopped reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act. This minority insists on imposing its will on a bipartisan majority of the Senate, the House and the president of the United States. In effect, these few politicians are willing to jeopardize the safety of the American people because they are unwilling to accept the compromise agreed to by both houses of Congress, despite efforts from all other quarters to do so. Most reasonable people would agree that it is a practical impossibility for each legislator to get everything he or she wants in these negotiations. That doesn't mean the American people should be left with nothing.
The American people deserve honest discourse, not filibuster and delay. The Patriot Act has served our national security in a way that is both consistent with our national values and with the protection of civil liberties — in fact, the war on terror must be waged in a manner consistent with American principles.
The hysteria over this legislation (and the fact that people have in too many instances not focused on the hard-fought attempts to balance security with civil-liberty concerns) is a disservice to the American people. This debate does not concern a typical policy disagreement sometimes had over taxes or other issues — the stakes are so much higher.
The failure to reauthorize the Patriot Act returns Americans to the protections of September 10th tools.
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With the help of a few despicable GOP members
Sounds like an executive order can solve ths problem.
Anyone know why Sen. Craig of Idaho opposed the Patriot Act?
When the RINOS in the Senate gave Slick Willie a (get out of jail free) card during the impeachment trial, I ceased my membership in the Republican party. I might return again someday when and if the National party ever grows a set.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513207/posts?page=1216#1216
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524772/posts?page=8226#8226
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Rush had some Feinstein bites today that leads me to think they might get this fixed.
These Senators are endangering the lives of millions of Americans by trying to block renewal of the Patriot Act:
NAYs ---47
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Craig (R-ID)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Frist (R-TN)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sununu (R-NH)
Wyden (D-OR)
Email them and let them know they are allies of the terrorists.
Bill Frist only did it so he can bring it up again. What are you Michael Savage?
Have never listened to Savage, but I understand he has used "The Enemy Within" to describe DemoRats. No doubt he read Robert Kennedy's book by the same title, which was about the Mafia. But the DemoRats are far worse than the Mafia.
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