Senate Moves Patriot Act Toward 4-Year Extension Before Thursday Midnight Deadline

[Purveyor]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he has struck the first of several agreements needed to pass a four-year Patriot Act extension before three provisions expire at midnight Thursday.

The agreement to hold a test vote Thursday morning is the first progress all week in a standoff between Senate leaders and Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who opposes the Patriot Act. Paul has stalled the renewal, saying he wanted Reid to make good on a promise to allow debate on amendments. Reid said there was no time for that.

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[FiveGoodMen]

1. Shame on them

[Bubba Kush]

2. Patroit Act is Unpatriotic

And I want to see it die a fiery death, along with the Republicans who are complicit with this crap.

And disband Homeland Security, another massive failure.

I actually stand with Rand on this - I want to see it die, period.

(Edit: fixed subject typo)

[msongs]

3. the Bush/Cheney agenda and policies march on endorsed by DEMS from the top down nt

[ixion]

7. spot on, that.

:grr:

[dhill926]

4. those in power do NOT give it up........

[LetTimmySmoke]

5. Those who give up their liberty for a little bit of security deserve neither and will lose both.

[Poll_Blind]

6. The Patriot Act has been used to fucking empty our pockets and take away our...

...liberties- but when the world's largest ever dirty bomb goes off (Fukushima) what do we get? We get like 3 weeks of radiation monitoring where we don't even get to find out what the levels that were measured were.

That's a rip-off.

PB

[lib2DaBone]

8. Strange.. we have to have REPUBLICAN stand up against the Patriot Act...

Where is Mr. Obama on this? Oh ya.. he is over in England kissing the queens bum.

[Devil_Fish]

9. Fuck You Reid, There's never time for that. just like there isn't time to fix the voting machines.

What a Sack of Bull Shit. This country is a facist Despotic Shit Hole.

[alp227]

10. NYT: "Patriot Act Battle Could Hinder Investigators"

"The standoff led to a harsh exchange Wednesday. Mr. Reid accused Mr. Paul of putting the country at risk with “political grandstanding.” Mr. Paul accused Mr. Reid of breaking a promise to allow a full debate over the Patriot Act, which he portrayed as a threat to constitutional rights."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/26/us/politics/26patriot.html

[sakabatou]

11. *facedesk*

[frylock]

12. fucking pultroons..

obama aces bin laden and these cowards are still scared of being accused of being weak on terror.

[annm4peace]

13. bbbuut if the Patriot Act expires..

then it will be harder to spy and wiretap all those dangerous Peace and Social Justice activists.

I hope it expires.

[krabigirl]

14. Ugh...sorry that thing has to go.

[and-justice-for-all]

15. There is nothing patriotic about the patriot act....nt