First GOP Congressman apologizes for voting for Patriot Act

[JK/SEA]

Somebody wasn't sincere in their apology (Culberson):

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml

Kinda like a drunk driver killing a family of 4.

I'm sorry. Please let me go.

30 days later, does it again...

politicians are gonna politic.....

 

[Sola_Fide]

How exactly does one "dismantle" something by merely altering it's mission?

Exactly. He seems confused, or maybe he is trying to confuse people.

 

[Snew]

.....and he voted against the Amash Amendment.

b-b-but he seemed sincere!

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Kinda like a drunk driver killing a family of 4.

I'm sorry. Please let me go.

30 days later, does it again...

politicians are gonna politic.....

But, but...we're the government! This is impossible! Collins says so!

 

[Brett85]

My former rep Huelskamp voted for the Patriot Act but then has voted the right way on virtually every civil liberties vote since then, such as the Smith-Amash amendment to the NDAA, CISPA, this vote, and several others I believe. I have to wonder whether he regrets his vote for the Patriot Act as well.

 

[Michigan11]

If this really starts to take hold, and really starts to make headway, I think you'll see the mask completely fall off. TPTB will throw off any last pretenses as to why all these things have been implemented.

I would love to see it happen too, if we as a nation could scrap the patriot act peacefully, I'd start to actually be optimistic about our future.

You are right on man. The closer we get we'll know, because the mask will begin being taken off, as it already has, with the nsa disclosures from Snowden and the prior whistleblower. The closer we get the more they are disclosing to us, which I find as no coinsidence.

In another year we may find out that they have 10% of the population spying on the other 90% at their doorstep. That wouldn't surprise me.

 

[Occam's Banana]

The proof is in the pudding. He seems genuine [...]

Actually, the saying goes, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" (which means "not in the seeming").

IOW: It's what people actually DO that ultimately matters.

And making air molecules vibrate in certain ways by flapping your gums does NOT count as DOING ...

.....and he voted against the Amash Amendment.

Now, THAT is "in the eating" - Culberson's pudding is rancid and rotten ...

 

[KurtBoyer25L]

I don't even know who the first Republican congressman was, but it's amazing that he's lived this long!!

 

[tod evans]

Politicians........Trust 'em as far as you can drop-kick an anvil..

 

[tsai3904]

Rep. Culberson doubles down and writes this:

Why the Amash Amendment Wouldn’t Have Protected You

The Amash Amendment to the defense appropriations bill took the wrong approach to an issue of national importance. I carefully read the full text of both amendments before the vote and I voted for the Pompeo Amendment because, unlike the flawed Amash Amendment, it will actually protect the content of American citizens’ phone calls. The amendment I voted for will prevent the NSA from listening to phone calls without a court order and it will protect all American citizens from being targeted by the NSA. You can see the text of both amendments here: http://culberson.house.gov/protecting-your-right-to-privacy/.

The Amash Amendment was essentially a light switch—it turned the money either fully on or fully off and did nothing to fix a flawed but vital program. The Amash Amendment would have taken us back to September 10, 2001 and made us vulnerable to terrorist attacks. That would have been unacceptable.

More:
http://culberson.house.gov/why-the-amash-amendment-wouldnt-have-protected-you/

 

[Carlybee]

Is there anyone who can primary this guy?

 

[GunnyFreedom]

.....and he voted against the Amash Amendment.

You can thank The Heritage Foundation for that - they argue the Amash Amendment as unconstitutional, claiming it makes Congress dictate to the Judiciary.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Rep. Culberson doubles down and writes this:



More:
http://culberson.house.gov/why-the-amash-amendment-wouldnt-have-protected-you/

Right out of the Heritage argument

http://www.heritage.org/research/re...department-of-defense-authorization-bill?ac=1

 

[Carlybee]

How can we fight the Heritage Foundation?

 

[compromise]

I would have thought DeMint would have supported the Amash amendment if he were still in the House. I'm surprised he doesn't.

 

[mad cow]

Right out of the Heritage argument

http://www.heritage.org/research/re...department-of-defense-authorization-bill?ac=1

From the link:

As a matter of policy, the amendment is a blunt instrument that summarily terminates a program that the federal government, under two very different Administrations, has thought vital

How many administrations thought a policy vital trumps the Constitution?

Well,now that I think about it and the last hundred years,yes it does.

Never mind,how silly of me.

 

[Carlybee]

Yes jackasses...we WANT it terminated.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Tis a start.

 

[bunklocoempire]

 

[Anti Federalist]

.....and he voted against the Amash Amendment.

And we put this down right here:



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