Re: What a Republican Majority Has Not Meant

Had ALL of the Republicans in the House OR the Senate voted NAY OR had
the President Vetoed ... guess what ... it would NOT have passed.
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All but ONE of the senate dems voted for it, and renewed it FOUR
friggin times - including current POTUS and SecState (psst, they're
democrats. Said current POTUS not only did not veto the last one,
he's pushing FOR this one!

You think Bush would veto Patriot?

You look ridiculous!

NINETY-EIGHT TO ONE, and republicans did it? Its the single most bi-
partisan support we've seen in 100 years!

Wipe the drool off your chin.

On Feb 15, 2:21 pm, frankg <fran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it OK if I jump in here and say you are both correct?  If the
> Republicans were to follow thru on their supposed conservative ideals,
> then the Patriot Act would not have passed. That they did not does
> support this editorial. However, as GfB points out, the vote was
> pretty much unanimous, so blame must be equally shared. My
> interpretation of the editorial was to point out what the Republicans
> did NOT do, such as trimming waste and fraud, cut spending, eliminate
> legislation, etc. To that extent, I agreed with it, even as it applies
> to passing the Patriot Act. However, you can not lay the blame for the
> Patriot Act solely at the feet of the Republicans.. as they say, it
> takes two to dance - or pass bad legislation.
>
> BTW, is it only me or is it troubling to anyone else to read this and
> think fondly of the good old days, kind of like how great it was when
> gas was *only* $2.50/gal?
>
> "...the federal budget (over $2 trillion) and the federal deficit
> (over $500 billion) are the highest ever, the national debt is over $7
> trillion (and increasing an average of $2 billion per day)..."
>
> On Feb 15, 1:25 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > At 01:22 PM 2/15/2011, you wrote:A Republican Majority in the Senate and a Republican Majority in the
> > House and a Republican in the White House gave us the Patriot Act. Who
> > is it you imagine to be responsible for giving us the Patriot Act?
> > ----------------------------------
> > When something passes 98 to fucking 1, it doesn't matter if Martians
> > were the majority party.
> > Anything to try and EXCUSE and APOLOGIZE for the Republicans.
> > Had ALL of the Republicans in the House OR the Senate voted NAY OR had the President Vetoed ... guess what ... it would NOT have passed.
> > It is patently obvious that the Republicans gave us the Patriot Act just as Vance noted.
> > No wonder you prefer to spew fallacy.
> > Regard$,
> > --MJI was brought up as a Republican.  But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a Libertarian. -- Kurt Russell- Hide quoted text -
>
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