Florida Voter Purge Will Continue, Defying Federal Warning

[malthaussen]

60. The Constitutional Scholar

Made a special effort to extend it, and caused a mini-uproar by using unconventional means to extend it (remote signing, remember?), and said the Act was "Vitally important to National Security." Or something like that.

Prior to that, I was willing to cut Mr Obama some slack: recalcitrant Congress, Blue-Dog Dems, need to trade-off for important bills... the usual apologia. But he extended the Patriot Act of his own, free, unfettered will. Nobody was holding unemployment compensation hostage, or anything like that. At that point, I said "Okay, there really is nothing new here."

It's kind of ironic that we are finally moving towards acknowleding the human rights of LGBT persons, at the same time when we are undermining the value of those rights to an unprecedented degree. ("Unprecedented" for US history, of course)

-- Mal