Obama signs Patriot Act Extention today

Wait...let me dig out my shocked face. Let's see, I put it over here somewhere. Ah, here it is.. Was that convincing? No? I tried. I think you already know my thoughts on this lil...I don't need to go in to my diatrab of constitution, world history, liberty, yada yada...suffice it to say though to those who did support him....FOOLS! I told you all! You liked Bush so much you had to have another one?? Was that it?

I will write again if Obama was a Constitutional law professor what part of the Fourth Amendment does he not understand. Also every Congressmen and Senator swears to uphold and defend the Constitution, so the say question to them. My Congressmen voted for the extension, he is not running again, he does not care what anyone in his district thinks. Just in case anyone does not know what the fourth protects you from here is what it says, The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Actually I think the patriot act is necessary, and I am glad the president has finally realized this. But I wonder why the same people who were so upset about the patriot act said nothing when the current president agreed to give Interpol immunity from being taken to task over violating the constitutional protections of US citizens.

and Obama will continue to blame this on Bush. Even though he signed it, it is still Bush's fault. Funny how Obama ran on one opinion, but now that he has more info and facts, he leans closer to Bush. Lmao!

The Dems in the senate tried hard to get rid of the worst parts of this act but they could not muster enough bipartisan support to reach 60 votes. The entire Patriot Act was set to expire by Sunday and there were provisions in there that would seriously hamper law enforcement. For that reason, the House voted Unanimously to extend the act and the president signed the extension. What happened to this bill in the senate is gridlock at its worst and still there are Mylotters on here making a case for the good points of gridlock. Go figure! I don't know what the solution is. If people think that gridlock is a good thing, I guess they are pretty damn happy about what happened here. Personally, I think the Patriot Act was a horrible knee jerk reaction to 911 and it puts serious limits to Ameican freedom. I'm a liberal Democrat (used to think I was a moderate) and I know you are not BUT we are in total agreement on the evils of the Patriot Act. So what do we do. You blame the president. I blame the Republicans in congress. We are still stuck with the Patriot Act,

Lil, have you been able to find who voted against it exactly? I FINALLY found the vote tally. It was extremely difficult as I couldn't find the bill number anywhere and was looking for "Medicare Reform Act" when it turned out it was actually called the "Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act". The bill number is H.R.3961 and here is where you can see the final votes. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll067.xml