[MNJohnnie]

Oh my, this is REALLY not going to make the Kooky base of the Democrat Party happy.

[squidly]

Not surprising that Clinton and Obama abstained.

[Army Air Corps]

Will Captain HopeChange be alerted with the HopeChange signal? I am sure the moonbats hope so...

[CougarGA7]

I want spy powers!

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I don’t have to look to know that Sen. Dodd was among the 29. He was reading some comments into the record last night - and it was immediately apparent from the difficulty he had reading the prepared remarks that he had no understanding of the Internet or the concept of packet switching or really anything relevant to the idea of modern communications surveillance. What a fool. He was essentially arguing for the requirement that a warrant be requested each time a potentially dangerous communication was detected. By whihc time of course the communication would be complete. Thank God this $hit is on the record.

[weegee]

There is LESS than a year in President Bush’s reign. This is NO LONGER President Bush’s spy program.

If Obama and Mrs. Clinton are opposed to it and won’t use it, they should have voted NO. They support it and will use it far more than Bush will have a chance to.

[Cindy]

“...voting to broaden the government’s spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies...”

Good.

[traviskicks]

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[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The moonbats are busy campaigning for their future life$.

[KoRn]

This would be all good if it only applied to terrorism investigations. As years go by I’m sure this will be used to incriminate people against virtually anything, such as downloading music for example.

This is a ‘Pandora’s box’ that shouldn’t be opened IMO. If there are suspected terrorist communication’s, then by all means get the records after judicial process. Giving the ISPs a blank check with regard to monitoring our activities will not lead to a good end.

[doug from upland]

We are intercepting conversations that contain key words from terrorist sources. There are criminal penalties for misuse. I want a minimum of intrusion by the government on our lives, but if a terrorist source uses the words explosives, mass carnage, or nuclear, I want someone in the law enforcement system to know about it and do something about it.

[rfp1234]

"I'm not quite lame yet".

[cake_crumb]

CNN/MSN/ABC/CBS/Times reporters deeply saddened. They were the ones that put up the fuss and had the ACLU sue. They seemed to think that being able to call up some terrorist bigshot, ask about the wives and kiddies and get info on the next big attack so they could be on the scene to film it - and not bother to warn any potential victims, even civilian ones - is some kind of civil right.

[arthurus]

The downside comes when the Democrats are in control of all that necessary apparatus. They won’t be tracking jihadists with it and they surely won’t dismantle it.

[Etoo]

{Que Beatles}

Back in the U.S.

Back in the U.S.

Back in the U.S.S.R.

[UndauntedR]

This is the exact opposite of conservatism.

[PapaBear3625]

Oh my, this is REALLY not going to make the Kooky base of the Democrat Party happy.

Given the margin, I'm going to guess that the Dems are anticipating a Dem administration using those powers against the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy

[The_Reader_David]

Oh! the horror! If I place an innocent call to Waziristan or some other place full of terrorists, the President’s war powers to conduct signals intelligence against the terrorists in the region I’m calling will let operatives of the Executive Branch listen to enough of it to find out that I’m not a terrorist without having to get a FISA warrant! Our liberties are being trampled! Aux barricades!!! /sarcasm

[NonValueAdded]

“Profiles in Courage,” Hillary and Obama are no-shows for the vote.