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Patriot Act Extended for Six months
Fox New | 12/21/2005 | Fox News

Posted on 12/21/2005 6:13:04 PM PST by tsmith130

Fox news reporting the Senate has agreed to extend the Patriot Act for six month.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 109th; gorelick; gorelickwall; homelandsecurity; patriotact; wot
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To: tsmith130

Renewal will come up right at the start of the 2006 election season, when people will be paying attention to politics again [normal people, not like you or me ;-)].

I don't see much of a downside to this. The Dems will have an opportunity to demonstrate inability to be trusted on national security again, at just the right time.

Glad to see Karl Rove back in action :-) heh heh


261 posted on 12/21/2005 7:43:03 PM PST by Da Mav
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bookmark


262 posted on 12/21/2005 7:43:05 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Fudd Fan
It looks like Mary hasn't missed many meals lately.

I was just about to post that.

263 posted on 12/21/2005 7:43:06 PM PST by tsmith130
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To: Fudd Fan
But you are not ordinary, are you?

Thankfully, no.

Sadly, freedom-loving people are now the exception.

264 posted on 12/21/2005 7:43:49 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: tsmith130

Great minds... then it wasn't my imagination! lol


265 posted on 12/21/2005 7:43:56 PM PST by Fudd Fan (God bless President Bush! (Water Bucket Brigade member - MOOSEMUSS!)
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To: elkfersupper

I read some of your posts to try to understand where you're coming from. Unfortunately it just disturbed me more.


266 posted on 12/21/2005 7:45:00 PM PST by Fudd Fan (God bless President Bush! (Water Bucket Brigade member - MOOSEMUSS!)
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To: Fudd Fan
Want to explain why you want to?

Because it would be my preference to not go anywhere without it. Why do you ask?

267 posted on 12/21/2005 7:45:10 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: ExSES

Except, a number of these RINO's come from conservative leaning states.

Explain Chuck Hagel from Nebraska and Lindsey Graham from South Carolina. Nebraska actually has a better Senator in the Dem counterpart, in Nelson. Though some of that can be laid at his feet in realizing how conservative a state he represents and wanting to keep his job in '06. Then there is DeWine. Ohio may not be "conservative" necessarily, but it's conservative enough to prefer G.W.B. over Kerry. It's conservative enough to be making Blackwell the front runner for Governor, and Blackwell is a conservative. There is no excuse for these Senators and many others to behave as they have done. Especially when in DeWine's case it's in large part WHY his chances for re-election are in jeopardy next year. DeWine thinks it's because he's not liberal enough....

As well, Chafee surpasses even the term of a RINO. Chafee is a Democrat. Numbers do not justify his continued presence in the Senate. He needs to be defeated.


268 posted on 12/21/2005 7:45:30 PM PST by Soul Seeker (Mr. President: It is now time to turn over the money changers' tables.)
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To: hail to the chief

I think someone just traded ANWR for 6 months of the Patriot Act.


269 posted on 12/21/2005 7:45:31 PM PST by McGavin999 (If Intelligence Agencies can't find leakers, how can we expect them to find terrorists?)
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To: Fudd Fan
Great minds... then it wasn't my imagination!

Not at all....she doesn't help herself by dressing in neon orange either. Sheesh Mary, but a clue w/ that $29 billion.

270 posted on 12/21/2005 7:45:45 PM PST by tsmith130
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To: clawrence3
Is there any chance we can get rid of some RINOs within 6 months?

How about that bitch Murkowski, and John Sununu (R-Saudi Arabia)

271 posted on 12/21/2005 7:46:47 PM PST by montag813
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To: FreeReign
the dems opened a full fledge attack on Stevens .. calling him a liar and other names

Disagreement about ANWR is one thing .. but the dems got very personal in the attacks

And I don't think Stevens will forget it
272 posted on 12/21/2005 7:47:18 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: billbears
Jefferson made a whole LOT of mistakes and the more I read about him, the more I greatly detest the man and find a very great deal about his presidency, which was not all that "wonderful". IMO, he is highly over rated.

His "mistake" vis-a-avis the Barbary Pirates was actually worse than how President Bush has handled the WoT. After all, Jefferson said that NO ransom would be paid, but it was.

Washington used spies during the Revolutionary War and so has every single president since. There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution, that prohibits the government from taking LEGAL steps to protect the nation and her people.

Cherry-picked quotes, misapplied, equal lousy/no refutation. It's fascinating watching you attempt to use the words of your betters, while not having any comprehension of what they said, nor what they meant.

Just using your own tactics on you. What's the matter, hypocrite, can't take it? :-)

You may or may not really know what life is said to have been like in 1801, but since you are used to 2005, I know and you know that you would NOT be able to live without the things you take for granted now. No matter what you say, that IS a fact! Elsewise, you'd be living that way right now, on "principle"!

273 posted on 12/21/2005 7:47:19 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
You haven't given up one thing!

I've given up a lot of time trying to point out what you're advocating giving up.

274 posted on 12/21/2005 7:47:52 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Fudd Fan; elkfersupper
It looks like Mary hasn't missed many meals lately.

Maybe she should try the elkfersuper diet. Elk meat is very low in fat and cholesterol.

Elk Meat Nutritional Information

275 posted on 12/21/2005 7:48:22 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Mo1

Who said that?

What happened???


276 posted on 12/21/2005 7:48:41 PM PST by Howlin (Defeatism may have its partisan uses, but it is not justified by the facts. - GWB, 12/18/05)
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To: nopardons
List, in detail and all specifics, every "liberty" you have lost due to the Patriot Act.

I realize you didn't address me in your post...but with a "sneak and peek" intrusion into one's privacy the individual wouldn't know about it until after the fact. Can you imagine a scenario wherein an abuse such as that could be taken to an extreme?

277 posted on 12/21/2005 7:48:47 PM PST by Simo Hayha (An education is incomplete without instruction in the use of arms to protect oneself from harm.)
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To: traditional1

I thought Stevens was going good, but I think the outcome was pre-engineered by Frisk.

And the funny thing is, it's still not over, because now the House has to come back and pass, or not, the Defense Appropriation and Authorization bills without ANWAR.


278 posted on 12/21/2005 7:49:21 PM PST by Growler
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To: billbears
And "partisanship" is just exactly what entered into our way of life, soon after Washington took office. It achieved FULL BLOOM, when his second term ended.

A one party and ONLY one party system is what the USSR had. I doubt that that is really what old George had in mind, back then. But the next time you haul out that Ouija board...ask him. :-)

279 posted on 12/21/2005 7:50:04 PM PST by nopardons
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To: tsmith130
What the heck, are you gypsies?

Sold a house, building a house.

280 posted on 12/21/2005 7:50:08 PM PST by elkfersupper
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