Patriot Act Extension FAILS

[yatez112]

Random tidbit about this...On CSPAN this morning, 90% of the callers were against the Patriot Act from what I saw. The host played Ron's floor speech after saying he was one of the Tea Party favorites.

 

[teacherone]

Send this to your obamabot friends.

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The Obama administration earlier Tuesday urged Congress to extend the tools for nearly three years while Senate Republicans urged them to become permanent.

The White House said that while it would support the nine-month extension proposed by House Republicans, it would "strongly prefer" that they be re-authorized through December 2013.


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The Republicans, who took over the House last month, lost 26 of their own members, adding to the 122 Democrats who voted against it. Supporters say the three measures are vital to preventing another terrorist attack like those on Sept. 11, 2001, but critics say they infringe on civil liberties. They appealed to the antipathy that newer and more conservative Republicans hold for big government invasions of individual privacy.

Among the 26 Republicans against the extension were seven freshman lawmakers backed by the Tea Party movement, whose members have said the Patriot Act intrudes on every-day life, NBC News reported. They are David Schweikert of Arizona, Tom Graves of Georgia, Raul Labrador of Idaho, Randy Hultgren and Bobby Schilling of Illinois, Justin Amash of Michigan and Christopher Gibson of New York. An eighth first-term Republican, Michael Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, joined them.The Republican-controlled House was expected to favor the nine-month extension.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41482485/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

 

[Kylie]

My congressman, Costello, actually voted NO.

Holy shit. The world is coming to an end.

 

[georgiaboy]

I'm amazed this failed to pass. What's going on inside the GOP that caused this to happen? Testing the public's reaction? Is this being linked to our financial woes, or is it the TSA scanning connection that's being addressed? Great news any way I look at it.

Did Rand cut some of this as part of his $500B budget proposal?

The Georgia GOP reps split on this one. Curious. I sense a shift. a positive shift.

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

I'm amazed this failed to pass. What's going on inside the GOP that caused this to happen? Testing the public's reaction? Is this being linked to our financial woes, or is it the TSA scanning connection that's being addressed? Great news any way I look at it.

Did Rand cut some of this as part of his $500B budget proposal?

The Georgia GOP reps split on this one. Curious. I sense a shift. a positive shift.

It failed to pass because it required a 2/3rd majority. It is a good shift, but call me a skeptic because a Democrat is in the White House. It'll pass when they do not try to ram it through on special rules and procedures. I think people are looking at this way too optimistically without viewing this in its proper context. Hopefully the trend continues and we can kick out more of the statists, but it is going to take a long time (if at all possible -- and frankly, I do not want to see the Federal Government survive. I want mass secession and independence movements and I think they have a better chance at success than trying to reform the entire Federal Government). At least 75% of the Democrats voted against it.

 

[Chieppa1]

Funny, I was really interested to see if my rep, Scott Garrett is actually on board with Liberty as some of his votes in the last couple years have pointed to. Well, he's not perfect, but he's learning. My area in NJ has become more and more Ron Paul. So this vote was big to see if we would give him another term after this one....

He was a non-vote. No details as of yet WHY.

 

[georgiaboy]

but call me a skeptic because a Democrat is in the White House.

At least 75% of the Democrats voted against it.

just furthers the puzzle to me. so most of the GOP voted for it, but enough sided with D's for it not to make the 2/3 and have to be debated, but a D is in the WH, so this benefits ???

This one was just too easy to slip under the radar (pun intended) with the 2/3 and carry on discussing obamacare, budget, etc.

 

[Southron]

The fact that it didn't pass is still a great thing. Hopefully this will bring it to the forefront of political discussion, instead being rammed through quickly, as they intended.

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

The fact that it didn't pass is still a great thing. Hopefully this will bring it to the forefront of political discussion, instead being rammed through quickly, as they intended.

I agree.

 

[Legend1104]

Yeah I have already heard Beck and Fox News talk about it. How many dems voted no? Surely it wasn't all. I would not see how a democratic president would sign something that had total opposition from the Dems. I would assume he would sign it.

 

[Zap!]

Yeah I have already heard Beck and Fox News talk about it. How many dems voted no? Surely it wasn't all. I would not see how a democratic president would sign something that had total opposition from the Dems. I would assume he would sign it.

Is Beck against the Patriot Act now?