Patriot Act Heads Toward Renewal

[rodeodance]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/patriot_act;_ylt=AtEuzp5IkfcCtAAkGtgDnv6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--


By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer 50 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The USA Patriot Act is headed toward renewal with broad Senate support for a White House-brokered compromise that adds modest new civil liberties protections to the terror-fighting law.
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"The outcome here is absolutely predetermined," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said late Wednesday. "It's going to pass with overwhelming support."

With even senior Democrats lining up behind the measure, its lone opponent, Sen. Russell Feingold, was preparing amendments he said would strengthen its curbs on government power. Congress is racing to renew 16 provisions of the law that are set to expire March 10.


........He may not get the chance to offer the changes to the full Senate, a development that Feingold said rendered the debate a "sham."

[ixion]

1. proving that congress despises We, the People

:grr:

[Rex]

2. The entire federal gummit is a sham Mr. Feingold.

Please don't tell me he is just finding this out now.

[Demeter]

3. Garlic? Silver Bullet? Wooden Stake? Cross?

Uh, forget the Cross.

Is there no way to rid the world of these horrible bloodsucking creatures?

(What about sea water? Or rain?)

[liberal N proud]

4. The terrorist have just won!

By taking down American democracy, the bu$h regime did exactly what it SAID it was not going to allow happen. The Terrorist have just accomplished what they set out to do.

[Mad_Dem_X]

7. Exactly - when we lose our freedoms

the terorists have truly won. Our civil liberties are what makes us Americans and what makes this country great. By taking away our rights, we cease to be a great country, and our enemies win.

[OneBlueSky]

5. so yet again the majority of Democratic senators are . . .

prepared to facilitate the BushCo agenda and trample on the rights of American citizens . . . how much of this shit are the rank and file expected to take? . . .

[pinniped]

6. When we have no more freedumbs left, these alleged terra-dudes....

will not hate us anymore.:silly:

They originally hated us for our freedumbs, right?

Nice plan, idiot presidunce. That's one way to win, perhaps the only way.

[cyberpj]

8. With even senior Democrats lining up behind the measure... WHY? WHY? WHY?

This is just absurd!

[regnaD kciN]

9. Let me guess...

...with the election coming up, the Poow Scawed Wittwe Democwats think that, if they balk at renewal, they'll be attacked for being "soft on security."

Just the same way they gave Bush a blank check on Iraq so that they wouldn't have their patriotism or committment to fighting terrorism questioned in 2002. We all know how well that worked.

:argh:

[cyberpj]

10. And we can safely assume they'll cave on NSA too -Heil Hitler Indeed.

[katinmn]

11. Senate voted 96-3. This is so depressing.

I see Senator Byrd voted against it, now that there's no chance it will be killed.

[bucklebone]

12. What are the Democrats Doing?????

First they run Paul Hackett out of town, then they line up like lap dogs to vote for the Patriot Act. Not a good week for the Demos in Congress.

[Betty]

13. Why bother to have two parties

when the dems support fascism as much as the repubs.

[IndianaGreen]

14. Boo on the Dems!

Russ Feingold, Robert Byrd, and Jim Jeffords were the only 3 Senators to vote against the PATRIOT extension. The rest of the Democrats did what they have done so well since 9-11, they bent over and let Bush assume more dictatorial powers.

It is for reasons such as these that so many progressives have given up on the Democratic Party, a party that has become a rubber stamp for the Bush dictatorship.

Our Republic is mortally wounded, and few of our politicians in Washington seem to care at all!