Craig is one of the most conservative members of the Senate.
What is going on in HIS mind?
If that is the case, then he either lost his mind, or was bribed; take your choice.
Maybe Bush will correct this, we'll see. No excuse for the Senators, but this is the way it works. You have to either put a carrot in front of them or a good steady kick to the rear.
"Craig is one of the most conservative members of the Senate.
What is going on in HIS mind?"
You answered your own question. He IS a Conservative. Big difference these days between a Conservative and a Republican.
Restoration of Most-Wanted Pork, in return for his vote?
in the old days, conservative meant restricting government intrusion into the public's private lives
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.
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.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1524772/posts?page=8226#8226
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513207/posts?page=1216#1216
According to him, this is what's going on in his mind...
His constituents are with him, Craig said. "The beauty of Westerners is that we have a healthy distrust of our government," he said, adding that gun owners are particularly leery of laws that give federal agents greater powers to secretly search offices and homes. "Whether they are business records or they are gun dealers' records or whatever, they are records that can be gained" under the law, Craig said.
And I'm with Craig...Under the Patriot Act, the gov't can call ANYONE a terrorist for any number of reasons that have nothing to do with terrorism...And then the nightmare begins...
A strong libertarian streak. Which isn't at all bad. He just needs to be convinced that the Patriot Act is not the 'police state' tactic that the Lie-all-the-time media pretends it is.
A true Conservative would be AGAINST legislation like the Patriot Act, but demand our border first be so tight crows would starve on the way in.
When we assign our liberties over to Government from fear of terrorists, terrorists will have won.
Sununu as well, BTW, anyone would like to guess how Barry Goldwater would vote on this?
Politics is an interesting animal. It's important always to have some of your own team in the rear, as opposed, to upfront with the rest.