Can you correct the title...Six months...sorry.
Well, that puts it to rest for a while.
Is there any chance we can get rid of some RINOs within 6 months?
I can see this as potentially beneficial. Six months puts us pretty close to the mid-terms, and if the liberals still object to its renewal then, it'd be a much more effective time to bang them over the head with the issue.
Thanks for the Post!
Is this related to what Specter was talking about?
Did they strip anything out of it?
For the second time.
And in six months ... they will try (again) to kill it.
And campaign in the fall as protectors of our civil liberties, based on their opposition to the Patriot Act.
Ah, the beauty of compromise. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Anyone who thinks the Gorelick Wall is acceptable for even 1 minute should be tarred and feathered.
Look for 6 months of well planned and financed efforts against the President's popularity.
The President this time should never again wait and he should respond early and often so America learns what traitors the Democrats are.
It was approved as good law for 4 years.
It is being extended as good law for 6 more months.
If it has been good for 4 years and needed and extended for 6 more months, then why wouldn't it be good law until the war on terror is over?
Six months is WAY better than letting it expire next week. If they want to haggle over some of the provisions, knowing that future presidents will also have its powers, I'm okay with that.
My recommendation to the conference committee - screw the Senate and get rid of the six month deal. Make the nitwit lightweights in the senate who spend more time thinking about how they can play this for TV time, newspaper coverage or sound bites explain why they would be willing to extend this for six months but not a year, or two, or five.
Shine a light on the cockroach dims and RINO's and force the real Republicans in the Senate to grow a pair and do their freaking job for a change.
Otherwise fire the whole lot of 'em in the next election and start over from scratch...
I for one am tired of this crap.
I can live with that.
Senators Near Deal to Extend Patriot Act
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Senators on Wednesday agreed to extend the expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act for six months to allow the bill's critics to continue to seek additional civil liberty safeguards in the anti-terrorism law.
The deal, if passed by the GOP-controlled Senate, would still need to get the approval of the Republican-controlled House and President Bush, but it would keep the Patriot Act provisions from expiring on Dec. 31.
Republican and Democratic senators have been negotiating all day long to try and break an impasse over the anti-terrorism law passed after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. It is one of the last pieces of legislation still outstanding in the Senate, which is trying to wrap up its legislative year.
A House-Senate compromise extending 16 expiring provisions of the Patriot Act has been stuck in the Senate for the past week because of a Democratic-led filibuster. Opponents of that bill say they want more safeguards in the legislation, and have asked for more time to seek more civil liberty protections in the law.
It seems that "someone" had a "Come to Jesus" meeting with some RINOs, eh?
They just want to get out of there before Christmas!
That's sufficient time to strip out all the unacceptable features.