I'm taking my bat and ball and going home.
This via Harry.
Republican Senator Sensenbrenner picks up his bat and ball and calls a premature end to the Judicial Committee hearing into renewal of Patriot act sunset clauses. There's a video of the fiasco to witness some good old fashioned jackboots on dissent.
I can see now why the Senate Intelligence committe wanted to expand law enforcement powers in a closed session. These pesky people asking questions and encouraging debate seem to be holding things up.
Republican Senator Sensenbrenner picks up his bat and ball and calls a premature end to the Judicial Committee hearing into renewal of Patriot act sunset clauses. There's a video of the fiasco to witness some good old fashioned jackboots on dissent.
This morning Rep. Sensenbrenner, the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee was leading a committee hearing looking into the renewal of Patriot Act
Mr. Sensenbrenner decided that he didn't like the tone of the meeting and simply got up and left but not before he criticized the witnesses who came and gave their testimony to the committee.
After he left the microphones were switched on and off while the Democratic members of the committee continued to discuss the renewal of the Patriot Act
I can see now why the Senate Intelligence committe wanted to expand law enforcement powers in a closed session. These pesky people asking questions and encouraging debate seem to be holding things up.
Posted by Johnno at
9:40 am
1 Comments:
Thanks for a follow up on this and an explanation on the intricacies of the situation. It's sometimes why I find it difficult to comment on your blog regarding things political, the US machine is indeed a strange beast.
Was the initial vote was at a time when the Dems were cowering and shell shocked after the 9/11 attacks? I seem to recall only one or two speaking out against this whole deal (and they were in congress if I recall correctly)and they seemed to be effectively silenced.
It doesn't seem to be until much later, only the start of this year ......some three years later, that there seemed to be ANY sort of robust debate on the subject from the Dems.
But at the time late 2001/early 2002 it was classic wedge politics, where you were damned for suggesting that the security and safety of the homeland wasn't of the highest order. The same thing occurred in Oz. The Labor party floundered and flopped around trying to find anything to be in opposition about.
The term "bipartisan support" was thrown around a lot.
And if the Labor party were in power at the time, things would not have been much different, we'd just be in the same boat as the UK with the Labor party steering the ship under the USA's orders.
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