at least to some extent in reaction to today's ny times report that bush issued a secret executive order allowing spying on americans without court approval, senate dems, plus a few gops, blocked a vote to reauthorize the usapatriot act—or, actually, replace it with a partly rewritten act.
dems proposed a 3-month extension to keep the old version in force while congress adds better personal liberty protection, but da prez threatened to veto it, saying he wants the long-term act or nothing, so at the moment it looks like gops will block the temporary measure.
they'd rather let the act expire so they can claim the dems endanger the country by blocking the vote.
only time will tell if we're still as easily fooled as we were for bush's first 4 years.
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