Posted on 12/20/2005 6:58:23 PM PST by ncountylee
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) could barely conceal his anger.
"The Patriot Act expires on December 31, but the terrorist threat does not," he told reporters at the Capitol yesterday. "Those on the Senate floor who are filibustering the Patriot Act are killing the Patriot Act."
There was just one problem. Well, four problems, actually. Four of the 46 senators using the delaying tactic to thwart the USA Patriot Act renewal are members of Frist's party. It is a pesky, irritating fact for Republicans who are eager to portray the impasse as Democratic obstructionism, and a ready-made rejoinder for Democrats expecting campaign attacks on the issue in 2006 and 2008.
The four Republican rebels -- Larry E. Craig (Idaho), Chuck Hagel (Neb.), John E. Sununu (N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) -- have joined all but two Senate Democrats in arguing that more civil liberties safeguards need to be added to the proposed renewal of the Patriot Act.
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He doesn't understand "plain English".
Don't do what I do, because we might use it against you!
"{I made a typo......you can't write a complete sentence. :-)"
Hello, my name is Dick. See Jane run.
When you have learned those, I will give you some more sentences to practice.
And obviously then, has nothing to do with the Patriot Act...
The admisinstration did not create any of these 'rules'. They are tenants well grounded in law, based on a decision of the Federal Courts in 'U.S. vs. Truong' and in two court cases that went before the Foriegn Intelligence Surveilance Court of Appeals,
Well then, who made the law that was based on these cases??? Surely it wasn't the FISC...
Sometimes I write terse replies; sometimes I don't.
Usually, brevity is the soul of wit; in your case, it never is.
I must apologize to you. Before this post you seemed to be Nancy Pelosi. Now I see you must be Robert Reich.
The way he's reading it without the "and", all activities that occur within the U.S. are terrorism.
If I was him, I'd stop all activities immediately. :)
It's an I'll tie your hands and then, THEN, when something terrible happens, I'll say that you ( President Bush ) is responsible for it. And don't forget, not for an instant, that IF the PA doesn't get extended, them the Gorelick WALL is back in place.
Precisely. And thankfully so.
Just out of curiosity, he told you that when?
"Now I see you must be Robert Reich."
Interesting that you have fantasies about Robert Reich.
If I were you, I wouldn't act on those fantasies.
Using your reader as a posting source now?
"The Patriot act ought to have a sunset provision. If it does not, then I am against it."
Amen Brother, Amen
When you suggest the PA is worse than a nuclear explosion in NYC, I'm afraid that's where you lose me, jerkweed.
These other jerkweeds have no idea, man.
Right?
Care to explain why it shouldn't have a sunset provision?
In my opinion, ALL laws should come with an automatic sunset provision and it should be written into the Constitution as an Amendment.
Keeps lawmakers busy and makes them do their jobs, not just knee jerk reactions to situations that affect us all.
OMG, if you took my post to be a fantasy about Reich, you ,must be Sydney Bloomenthal!
I think you got most of it but you forgot about the part where, if you touch me you die.
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