MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
"As Shahid Buttar, executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, says: "This agreement reeks of all the worst things about Washington: secrecy, back-room dealing, institutional co-optation, and bipartisan collusion to undermine constitutional rights. The death of Osama bin Laden offered the hope that our nation's leaders might finally restore sanity to the national security establishment in the wake of mounting documented abuses. Instead, they insulated it from debate and rammed the PATRIOT Act down the throats of hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans. I am, quite frankly, disgusted."
I know I'm disgusted.
Flipping Rand Paul was one of the few to get to the floor to oppose it; DiFi of course, is rabid for it.
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Cloture passed 74-8; these are the 8:
The eight votes against the motion to proceed were Jeff Merkley, Mark Begich, Max Baucus, and John Tester, and GOP Senators Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, and Dean Heller. Mark Udall, who sent out a petition on reforming the Patriot Act just yesterday, voted yes on the motion to proceed.
Udall has been the most dogged about reforming it.
by we are stardust on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 6:43pm