Patriot Act Extension By Autopen Raises Questions for Congressman 247
Okian Warrior writes "Congress passed the [Patriot act extension] bill Thursday night, shortly before certain provisions of the Patriot Act were set to expire. However, Mr. Obama could not sign the bill right away in person, since he was in Europe for the G8 Summit. In order to sign the bill before the measures expired, he authorized the use of the autopen machine, which holds a pen and signs his actual signature. Republican Rep. Tom Graves of Georgia sent President Obama a letter today questioning the constitutionality."
Questioning the constitutionality... (Score:5, Insightful)
The comments are full of hilarity (Score:4, Insightful)
YES
Re:The comments are full of hilarity (Score:2, Insightful)
I do recall the PATRIOT act being one of the issues Teleprompter Jesus ran on. He and his democratic minions bitching about eavesdropping on Grandma's phone calls. Now our Dear Reader is renewing the law he railed against so he could get elected. Nice. Real nice.
The democrats took Bush, painted him brown and put a D behind his name.
O=W
O is merely continuing every policy Bush initiated...
Re:What a microcosm of what's wrong with us (Score:5, Insightful)
President Obama (Score:3, Insightful)
Look, I'm not into the whole "political" thing.
But it isn't "Mr." Obama; it's Mr. President or President Obama.
You could also use The President or POTUS.
Saying "Mr." Obama isn't just disrespecting him, it's disrespecting The Office of the President. It's tacky.
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Re:The comments are full of hilarity (Score:5, Insightful)
Why such a discrepancy between House and Senate for Dems? Most Dem Senators voted yea...
Anyway, you can't assume that Dems in the House would have still voted the same way if they were the majority. US politics being what it is, minority parties tend to vote against things out of spite, but flip flop on the issue as soon as they're running things and could use some extra levers.
Re:What? (Score:2, Insightful)
Or a victim of the propaganda of the big telcos and the general corporate propaganda that government is ALWAYS worse than private enterprise.