” Bush was the enabler here. Not that Zero wouldn’t do this on his own.”
Bush had two wars. Obama says those are over. Why does he need this in peacetime?
That is no excuse to flout the Fourth Amendment. The PATRIOT Act does not supersede the Constitution. This isn't about posturing; it is about UNALIENABLE AND PREEXISTING RIGHTS. Those rights have been systematically violated. There were other and more effective ways to deal with terrorists on American soil.
I think 0 is simply expanding the scope of the Patriot Act to use it as a tool of control and oppression. If GWB hadn’t done it, 0 would have installed it just the same probably with even more intrusive measures. The Patriot Act was only enacted as a direct of the worst terrorist act to ever occur on U.S. soil. The Left seems to forget or ignore that.