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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Works for me.
If the dims didn't have 4 GOP giving them cover, the dims would not be able to use the bipartisan argument and a few of them would fold
They are giving the Terrorists exactly what they want for Christmas.
Can we just refer to him as John E. Sununu (I-N.H.), with the "I" standing for Islamofascists? The Sununu Family has been bought and paid for by the Saudis for decades.
I have never been a proponent of the Patriot Act. I have no intention of giving up my liberties for a little security.
I am suprised at so many on this thread that are for the Patriot Act!
The Patriot Act is beginning to extend to bureaucracies trying to require farms to acquire special id's and gps all their stock. This is a small part why these senators are blocking it and I applaud them.
I am really surprised that John Sununu Jr. is running with the RATS and the RINO's.
According to the Senate web site, these are the Senators who are endangering our lives by blocking renewal of the Patriot Act. The are allies of the terrorists.
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)
Everyone in FR is always ripping McCain, sometimes for good reasons, but I tell you Hagel is worse.
That guy finds any reason to go against Bush.
I'd much rather see McCain become president than Hagel...
That's what I'd love to know. I had a small but important role in getting him elected years ago and I find this terribly out of character for him. I'd like to read any public statements he's made about this.
What liberties have you given up? Is anything at all worth giving up for any amount of security?
Yeah, no kidding. Well, we all know they have exorbitant retirement accounts courtesy of us w/o a dime ever having been contributed by them.
Lincoln (D-AR)
I'll call their offices tomorrow.
Amazing how the SAME idiots in the Senate that gave us CFR, the Torture Amendment and Killed Drilling in ANWAR with ZERO regard for the consequences, NOW suddenly get all worried cause one day many some evil future government may misuse some element of the law. Gee MORONS. You passed it once and can provide NO evidence of ANY abuse! NOW suddenly for THIS law with a proven track record of being useful in fighting Terrorism you are worried that maybe, possibly some day someone may screw up and misused this law??? Funny how you had NO concern about how utterly irresponsible CFR was. Well how about PASSING the Patriot Act for say 3 years instead of KILLING it morons????
Maybe Senators in the future you will be as worried about such irresponsible Laws as CFR. Notice you wrote NO sunset into CFR Senators.
I'd much rather see McCain become president than Hagel...
I'd be dead before voting for either one of them. One (McInsane) is a whack job, and the other is a spiteful, hateful, self aggrandizing, egotistical *sshole. Did I sum it up well enough?
And I will add, if I have to hear one more sob story about how some copy editor had to walk 4 miles in the cold NYC streets today, because of the transit strike, I might chew off my arm!
Maybe that explains why he was willing to give so much money to LA after Katrina??????
Speaking of Katrina, my friend was in Las Vegas last weekend and ate breakfast in Denny's next to a guy from Gulfport. They had a long conversation and the guy said FEMA was unfairly blamed for the incompetence of Nagin and Blanco and said the people down there know who the problem really was.. he said FEMA was on the bridge trying to get into NOLA and Nagin was grandstanding and keeping them out...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524772/posts?page=8226#8226
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513207/posts?page=1216#1216
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