[the anti-liberal]

What I mean is, maintaining hard-line opposition to wiretapping will make pushing this through more difficult.

The hypocrisy of opposing the Freedom Act, for example, while simultaneously pushing something like this bill is simply too much, even for Liberals, so softening 'appearances' could be part of the game plan.

An hypothesis only, of course. It does make me wonder.

[Beowulf9]

I also wonder about the hypocrisy of opposing the war and then voting for a bill that supports means to continue it.

I thought the dems/Obama wanted out of the war? This bill doesn’t reflect that and makes me wonder what is up here.