TPM: GOPers Rebuff Dem Attempt to Extend Administration Surveillance Law

[L. Coyote]

GOPers Rebuff Dem Attempt to Extend Administration Surveillance Law
By Paul Kiel - February 29, 2008, 3:00PM - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/gopers_rebuff_dem_attempt_to_e.php


On the Senate floor today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) offered a 30-day extension to the Protect America Act, the administration's surveillance bill that expired two weeks ago.

Given that the President and Republicans have been making speeches and running ads claiming that the nation is at risk because Democrats let the law lapse, you might say it's a reasonable proposition. .....

As Reid put it on the Senate floor this morning:

..... But the President threatens to veto an extension, and our Republican colleagues continue, inexplicably, to oppose it.

But no. When Reid offered the measure as a unanimous consent measure, the Republicans objected.

It's no mystery why. The Republicans and the administration want all the political pressure they can bring to bear on Dems who oppose retroactive immunity.

[C_U_L8R]

1. deja vu

seems they're going in circles.

will that damn monkey go to Paraguay already and leave us the fuck alone.

[Historic NY]

2. So its not a matter of National Security

when the Repukes reject the bill. Of course our Democrat leaders won't make hay with this they are eunuchs.