The progressive left hates that Rand is filibustering USA PATRIOT right now.

[pollyrobin]

Originally Posted by Spartacus713

How many times has Barack Obama re-authorized the Patriot Act now?

I think it has only been 0nce in 2011.

[bluesjuke]

Originally Posted by greywar

Biden wrote a prior act that was used as the core of it. The prior act was MUCH more limited.

Now lets look at who voted against it.

Heres a clue, a couple of R's with integrity, a I, and quite a few D's.

Trying to rewrite this as a "progressive left" thing is incredibly dishonest.

Let's not forget Obama approved expansion of aside from renewing it as well.

[greywar]

Originally Posted by mm4

Joe Biden wrote the USA PATRIOT Act two months before OKC was wired from the inside with what office worker witness Jane Graham described as sticks of "gray putty." It was reintroduced in Congress for over five years afterward.

""I drafted a terrorism bill after [sic] the Oklahoma City bombing. And the bill John [U.S. AG last name asterisked by City-Data servers] sent up was my bill," [Joe Biden] said when the Patriot Act was being debated, according to the New Republic, which described him as "the Democratic Party's de facto spokesman on the war against terrorism."" -CNET

This is in reference to a prior act, not the patriot act. And thats my exact point. What you quoted references two separate bills. Also notice that Republican Jim Sensenbrenner introduced it to the House. The bill took Bidens original act, then modified it with changes suggested by George Bushes Justice department to create the patriot act.

Originally Posted by pollyrobin

Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin was the only senator who voted against the Patriot Act on October 24, of 2001.

You do know the house and senate both have to vote right? Yes Feingold was the only senator. Heres a list of those in the House who voted against it, notice sanders is on that list for example:

Baldwin
Barrett
Blumenauer
Bonior
Boucher
Brown (OH)
Capuano
Clayton
Conyers
Coyne
Cummings
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
DeGette
Dingell
Farr
Filner
Frank
Hastings (FL)
Hilliard
Honda
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones (OH)
Kucinich
Lee
Lewis (GA)
McDermott
McGovern
McKinney
Meek (FL)
Miller, George
Mink
Mollohan
Nadler
Ney
Oberstar
Olver
Otter
Owens
Pastor
Paul
Payne
Peterson (MN)
Rahall
Rivers
Rush
Sabo
Sanchez
Sanders
Schakowsky
Scott
Serrano
Stark
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Velazquez
Visclosky
Waters
Watson (CA)
Watt (NC)
Woolsey
Wu

[blind melon]

Originally Posted by mm4

Joe Biden wrote the USA PATRIOT Act.

Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record - CNET

Progressive leftists want police- and surveillance-state just as they did behind the Iron Curtain, and in today's DPRK, to monitor for compliance with progressive initiatives. Good Big Government jobs need to be funded.

If you consider Biden left than all I have to say is damm....