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« on: March 01, 2010, 05:53:52 AM »
Disgusting.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/27/obama-signs-year-extension-patriot-act/?test=latestnews

What did the Senate vote on this look like?
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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2010, 05:55:06 AM »
The Senate vote was unanimous.
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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2010, 05:56:16 AM »
So there are 60 HPs in the Senate currently. Reassuring.
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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2010, 06:06:46 AM »
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MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2010, 06:18:13 AM »
Now he pissed me.
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2010, 06:19:01 AM »

You didn't seriously think he'd veto, did you?
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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2010, 06:19:42 AM »

You think Obama has principles? Ha!
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« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2010, 08:56:28 AM »

God no.......I'm more pissed it made it to his desk.
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« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2010, 09:11:48 AM »
Quote from: Grumpy Gramps on March 01, 2010, 08:56:28 AM

God no.......I'm more pissed it made it to his desk.

Our politicians are afraid of their own shadows.
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« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2010, 09:20:56 AM »
Faceplant

But expected.
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« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2010, 09:54:28 AM »
Imagine that...

People, can we stop acting surprised now?  Obama is not a progressive in any sense of the word, and certainly not in regards to foreign policy and national security. The Patriot Act isn't going anywhere for a very long time.
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« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2010, 09:56:13 AM »
No surprise.

Obama = Bush
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« Reply #12 on: March 01, 2010, 10:16:27 AM »

They're not exactly equal Libertas, but in many areas there is hardly a noticeable difference, that's for sure.
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« Reply #13 on: March 01, 2010, 10:44:33 AM »
To be fair a lot of provisions have sunset by now. It's still horrible though.
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« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2010, 12:46:28 PM »

I just find it funny how there was none of those over-the-top rants on the floor in Congress about it.  So much for outrage from the left in Congress.
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« Reply #15 on: March 01, 2010, 12:50:26 PM »
Quote from: MODU on March 01, 2010, 12:46:28 PM

I just find it funny how there was none of those over-the-top rants on the floor in Congress about it.  So much for outrage from the left in Congress.

That's because Bush wasn't pushing it this time Wink
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« Reply #16 on: March 01, 2010, 12:55:30 PM »
Quote from: Grumpy Gramps on March 01, 2010, 12:50:26 PM
Quote from: MODU on March 01, 2010, 12:46:28 PM

I just find it funny how there was none of those over-the-top rants on the floor in Congress about it.  So much for outrage from the left in Congress.

That's because Bush wasn't pushing it this time Wink

HAHAHA . . . probably the only reason too.
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« Reply #17 on: March 01, 2010, 11:24:51 PM »
Quote from: theendisnigh on March 01, 2010, 09:54:28 AM
Imagine that...

People, can we stop acting surprised now?  Obama is not a progressive in any sense of the word, and certainly not in regards to foreign policy and national security. The Patriot Act isn't going anywhere for a very long time.

Yup. 2008 was the best opportunity to elect a progressive in 32 years, and it was wasted on some useless moderate hero. Obama was a major mistake. Not that the other top-tier primary candidates were any better. Carter was a conservative Democrat challenged from the left by Ted Kennedy, when he was President, and now he'd be too liberal to get the nomination. American politics is garbage.
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« Reply #18 on: March 01, 2010, 11:25:32 PM »
Quote from: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on March 01, 2010, 11:24:51 PM
Quote from: theendisnigh on March 01, 2010, 09:54:28 AM
Imagine that...

People, can we stop acting surprised now?  Obama is not a progressive in any sense of the word, and certainly not in regards to foreign policy and national security. The Patriot Act isn't going anywhere for a very long time.

Yup. 2008 was the best opportunity to elect a progressive in 32 years, and it was wasted on some useless moderate hero.

Would Hillary have been a more useful moderate hero?
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« Reply #19 on: March 01, 2010, 11:28:46 PM »
Generic apathetic response
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« Reply #20 on: March 02, 2010, 01:11:05 AM »
People actually expected him to veto it? If so, you all are more delusional than I expected.
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« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2010, 02:31:41 AM »
      I never thought I'd say this, but I've really been pining for the days of the Clinton Administration lately. Perhaps it was youthful ignorance, but he just didn't seem to be as much of an authoritarian as Bush or Obama.
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« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2010, 02:40:04 AM »
To be fair, it was "easier" then.  On the other hand, it can be argued that it is "harder" now because of the acts of our last two Presidents.
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« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2010, 02:49:05 AM »
This is absolutely disgusting. This administration needs overthrown immediately. Anyone who actually thinks at this point that Obama is superior to Bush is retarded, literally, and Bush was awful to the millionth power to begin with.
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« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2010, 08:47:06 AM »
Quote from: Angry Mob on March 02, 2010, 02:49:05 AM
This is absolutely disgusting. This administration needs overthrown immediately. Anyone who actually thinks at this point that Obama is superior to Bush is retarded, literally, and Bush was awful to the millionth power to begin with.

Thank Bush for the Patriot Act, and thank him for ramming it up Congress' ass so many times everytime they balked at any of it.
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