Re: Patriot Act strikes again.
UTD will all due respect my friend, you don't know what you are talking about. Bush cannot veto anything with regard to the Patriot Act. That law is in force. Certain important provisions expire in 2005. Another Act of Congress is required to keep them in force. This means that a bill will have to be proposed, hearings, joint committees, and all of these bills would have the protections of fillibusters. Bush has to get an entirely new bill passed for many important provisions to continue.
And frankly the ACLU does not even mention the sunset provisions! How deceptive is that? If they put in their analysis, in big bold print, "These provisions will no longer apply after 2005, unless congress votes to renew them, and the President signs the bill." To read the ACLU analysis, the important provisions of the PA will be with us until doomsday. Very deceptive!
98 Senators voted for this because the vast majority of the provisions were only temporary. They will soon expire, and we will have a debate on the effectiveness and appropraiteness of each section. Not nearly as scary as the propagandists would have you believe...