Patriot Act Continues
Sigh…if you needed more proof that the two party political system has merged into one party that spends all its time screaming at itself, all you have to do is check the news. Apparently all the folks on the left who screamed and yelled about the Patriot Act and how it trashes personal privacy in the name of a false sense of security are now silent. Probably because the Democrat-controlled house has passed a year-long extension of the Patriot Act. I had hoped that one of the few good things to come out of the current political climate would be a reduced or at least better-managed version of the Patriot Act. I guess that’s too much to hope for, especially when Democrats and Republicans are pretty much one and the same. I guess I knew it wasn’t going to be good when President Obama kept Bush’s state secrets defense in place. But at least he was keeping up with his campaign promises…oh, wait…
