Passive aggressive bi-partisanship kills needless spying

[kpete]

‘Baggers aren’t completely useless
February 8th, 2011 10:17 pm by greenboy

Well the Tea Baggers aren’t completely useless and their rhetoric not completely empty – and the Dems aren’t completely spineless! Who knew? Passive aggressive bi-partisanship has accomplished what Obama and his previously overwhelming control of Congress was unable to do – kill Shrubya’s Spying on America Patriot Act!

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/ahead-of-patriot-act-vote-some.html?hpid=topnews

[Avant Guardian]

1. For some reason a broken clock comes to mind...

[HereSince1628]

2. It's a Zombie. Don't expect it to remain dead...once power is made available

those who wield it (such as extrajudicial types at the CIA and NSA) will always crave it, demand it, and fight to have access to it. Look for it to come up again and again. It took the robber barons 70 years to recover from the excesses of the roaring 20's and FDR, but now they are killing the New Deal and the public sentiment that made it.

[WhiteTara]

3. hmm

maybe they can be politically useful in the future as well. Although most of them are really idiots that was a really quiet victory. I haven't heard so much about this in the mainstream daily babble.

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. It is far from dead

The GOP put it on an expedited calendar so it needed 2/3 support to pass. A majority actually supported extending it. It will just take a little longer to do so.