Posted on 01/28/2015 12:34:35 PM PST by C19fan
Sen. Marco Rubio wants Congress to permanently extend the authorities governing several of the National Security Agency's controversial spying programs, including its mass surveillance of domestic phone records.
The Florida Republican and likely 2016 presidential hopeful penned an op-ed on Tuesday condemning President Obama's counterterrorism policies and warning that the U.S. has not learned the "fundamental lessons of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."
Rubio called on Congress to permanently reauthorize core provisions of the post-9/11 USA Patriot Act, which are due to sunset on June 1 of this year and provide the intelligence community with much of its surveillance power.
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FUMR!!
Rubio wants to spy on REAL conservatives. Maybe a “joint venture” with the IRS is in order......
Yet again, the GOP shows just how leftist and anti-Conservative they are. But hey, R’s are better than D’s, right? Right? Lol.
Sh!t....he wants to put illegals in our homes (might as well be by making us pay for every damn thing they get), why wouldn’t he want the freaking NSA snooping up our keesters, too? I can’t wait for the next time somebody asks me what I think of Marco Rubio.
But, of course it will not be. Because 99% of Congress unfortunately agrees with Rubio.
Oh now there is a good idea. /sar
Someone needs to show Rubio how to read poll numbers.
Not a real NYT question
Q: “Do you think the NSA needs more power and authority to wiretap American Citizens?”
A: “Are you an absolute moron?”
Time to get rid of Marco Rubio.
Mario thinks he can campaign saying one thing and do anything he wants once he’s in office because we’re too stupid to notice.
What an absolute phony. Open borders and police/surveillance state, no thanks.
He really pulled the wool over Mark Levin’s eyes.
Bookmark!
And I voted for him. Man, do I feel like a turkey.
“Why does Rubio want to give the Federal Gov’t permanently all the powers in the Patriot Act?”
It’s not what Rubio wants that matters. It’s what the people who have Rubio in their pocket want that matters.
What a POS Rubio has turned out to be.
Government always moves to protect itself and to accrue power wherever it can. The Founding Fathers knew this in their bones, which is why they designed the Separation of Powers. But when there arises a whole class of elites who expect to either be in government or drawing their pay as intermediaries between the private sector and government, and especially when these elites all share similar liberal political values, it renders the Separation of Powers moot.
There are no longer three separate co-equal branches when too many people in office and too many people in the bureaucracy and too many people who serve on government advisory boards all share enough of the same big and Bigger government ideology.
One solution for this is term limits for everyone. And not only term limits on office-holders, but term limits in the bureaucracy as well.
Another solution recognizes and deals with the Iron Rule of Bureaucracy. This rule states that the bureaucracy only seeks to expand its power and will do so to infinity unless and until it is stopped by some greater power.
Up until recently, the limits of the budget simply stopped bureaucracies from expanding to infinity. But we now have a Federal Reserve that is willing to create trillions of dollars out of thin air for as long as it takes to stimulate the economy. But the money they create is in the name of government and government gets to spend it. A bureaucracy with near infinite funding will expand its power forever. How else can we explain that the government landlord agency, the bureau of Land management (BLM) can justify the expense and liability of its own sniper team? How else can the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service afford to employ a paramilitary unit to raid Gibson Guitar for importing wood that might be improperly labeled? How else can we afford to make millions of acres of uninhabited land in Alaska that has billions of barrels of oil underneath it, off limits to development and as a byproduct bring an early death to the Alaska oil pipeline?
The answer is that government creates as much money out of thin air as it thinks it can get away with. Of course, the debt will eventually crush both our economy and our liberties.
Every day more people are coming to the judgment that a carefully organized effort to repair the constitution via the States’ power to propose and ratify amendments has less risk to our liberty and prosperity than the present trajectory of the federal government and especially the federal bureaucracy.
The first order of business of an Article V Convention must be to limit government’s ability to spend and create near-infinite amounts of money.
The fundamental lesson we failed to learn from 911 was that Islam and the West don’t mix and play well. We should have started reducing our Muslim population, not stripping all of America of their privacy and rights. We are already paying too high a price for the aggravation of having Muslims.
IMO Marco Rubio is way too immature to be a senator much less run for President. I will not vote for him under any circumstances. He has no clue about real freedom and the Constitutional Republic.
Hey Mark Levin, here’s your boy Rubio trying to make the Patriot Act permanent...
“It’s not what Rubio wants that matters. It’s what the people who have Rubio in their pocket want that matters.”
That’s how it now works with everything about Congress and government. They serve their elitist masters and oligarchs. Many of them got their money in the USA just like they did in Russia -from taxpayers, bailouts, deals and corruption. The corruption in the USA is spreading like a metastasizing cancer, while the media and official dividers and others keep us arguing about our little differences, rather than the one thing we should all demand and that is transparency, honesty, Constitutional government and freedom and I include the global corporations that are taking power from the people.
The terrorists have won. Foolishly we keep stirring the pot all over the world frittering away our resources and lives by removing leaders like Saddam and Ghadaffi and Assad that actually kept a lid on these people. My beliefs on our world wide meddling to create democracies have totally changed. We need to get out of the ME and rebuild our own country.
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