Yay for bipartisanship!
Who says Washington is in gridlock? Today Obama went back on yet another campaign pledge by extending The Patriot Act for a year, a bill he said gave the government "powers it didn't need to invade our privacy without cause or suspicion" back in 2005. The House voted 315 to 97 in favor of the extension. No summit needed!
Sure, during campaign years Democrats will make noises about these police state excesses of the Bush era, but in reality everyone is pretty much on board. After all, a guy did melt his genitals with an underwear bomb recently. What's Dick Cheney keep giving himself heart attacks over?
I expect a lot of rationalizations from Obama's beleaguered fan base (hands tied, takes time, yadda yadda) that you wouldn't hear if that dumb ass dry drunk decider from Texas did the same thing.
Sure, during campaign years Democrats will make noises about these police state excesses of the Bush era, but in reality everyone is pretty much on board. After all, a guy did melt his genitals with an underwear bomb recently. What's Dick Cheney keep giving himself heart attacks over?
I expect a lot of rationalizations from Obama's beleaguered fan base (hands tied, takes time, yadda yadda) that you wouldn't hear if that dumb ass dry drunk decider from Texas did the same thing.
posted by Matt Bors at
4:49 PM
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I'm thinking about not voting at all next time. The "lesser" thing can be so finely cut, it is barely noticeable.
I'm thinking about not voting at all next time. The "lesser" thing can be so finely cut, it is barely noticeable.
I wrote in Mike Gravel last time Kevin. But I think I'm with you next time on abstaining from the symbolic act myself.
People want this security, to be protected from the rare occurrence of a crazy person on the safest form of transportation ever. If he opposed it, everyone would label him as soft (as if they haven't all ready done so).
Further more, the democrats want the patriot act. They want to have government agencies monitoring people. That's power no one wants to give up; to prevent any type of militia groups from organizing. Most of them lived through the 60's/70's. They don't want to see that again.
I don't think they really have much to worry about. People don't think or care enough anymore to organize either peacefully or maliciously. Now that TVs are stupidly cheap, we'd rather just watch some overpriced Blu-ray moves on our 26" Plasma displays. Revolution adverted.
Read the Glenn Greenwald piece on Salon...
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