It ain't over yet, my FRiend....the Patriot Act worshippers are gonna come back again & again & again until they get their way....it may be given a different name, & it may eventually pass under a Dim-ocrat President rather than a Repug, but still, the fight for an all-powerful & a more centralized government will continue.
I honestly don't think that they worship the Patriot Act so much as they worship Bush. Some kind of twisted "If Bush wants it, it must be good" kind of mental illness or something. They seem either unwilling or unable to actually read the PA.
I can understand their ignorance, to a point, since many of the changes to US law in the PA are merely changes of a word here, or a sentence there. You have to look up the law and see what the actual change was.