Comments on: More Patriot Act Shenannigans

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:50:31 +0000

Thanks GCB, and a Merry Christmas to you, AE, and to all of you guys and gals!…

By: Gulf Coast Bandit

Gulf Coast Bandit — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:23:58 +0000

The clip on NBC Nightly News had Sensenbrenner saying something along the lines of “they nearly screwed up everybody’s Christmas, and if we extend it for 6 months, they won’t take it up until the last week in June, so they’ll be screwing up everybody’s Independence Day.” My paraphrase, of course. So it looks like he just thought we would be better served if the Senate took it back up when they got back.

By: AcademicElephant

AcademicElephant — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:16:29 +0000

I’m confused, but I’ll give Sensenbrenner the benefit of the doubt until January when we can hash this out some more. Maybe this was a co-ordinated move? We’ll see.

I’m pretty much done for the weekend, so Merry Christmas Mark! Have a great one–AE

By: dmac

dmac — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:11:32 +0000

Perhaps we’re misreading his intentions here – if he’s holding it up for the sake of forcing the Dem’s hand in passing the act the way it stands presently (with no potentially weakening alterations), that’d be OK by me.

The GOP really needs to hold the other party’s feet to the fire on this one – if they don’t like the ACT the way it’s currently construed, then by all means let’s see them try a filibuster.

By: ryanVOX

ryanVOX — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:58:46 +0000

Memo to Sensenbrenner…

I have no problem with your immigration bill… but YOU WILL LOSE ALL SUPPORT IF YOU KEEP FARTING AROUND WITH THE PATRIOT ACT!!!

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