[OT] Patriot Act Renewal In Question

The most impressive thing is the extent to which the president is willing to ride roughshod over the concerns of even the libertarian/moderates of own party... either he's deeply sincere in his beliefs about "more and more Security against the terrorism", or he thinks that's where the votes are - at which point, it doesn't matter what he actually _thinks_: do you think anyone makes it to the presidency who remains capable of letting _that_ interfere with optimized vote-seeking behavior?

-dave w

so Arlen Specter, a "centrist" may become the new head of the Senate Judicary Committe over Orin Hatch? hmmmmm....

shockie B)

Considering how narrowly he was elected this factor is more supreme than ever.

I hope it does fail. Whole Idea sounded like the SS at work.