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Tea Party Leader Warns GOP Pols: We're 'Turning Our Guns' On You

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lawhawk1/06/2010 1:31:59 pm PST

re: #157 marjoriemoon

Is it kowtowing to the right or common sense to not throw out the Patriot Act which by and large has worked to keep us safe after 9/11 and which the Democrats in Congress have had a couple of years to push through changes (particularly to FISA courts and the tribunal system). As the President, he’s got an institutional position to not give up power accumulated by prior Administrations. It would make little sense for him to give up that power granted under the Patriot Act simply because the Bush Administration was the one that developed it. The courts haven’t found it unconstitutional, so Obama is carrying on with those policies.

Bush didn’t court Leftie opinions? Prescription drug law (Medicare Part D) comes to mind as does No Child Left Behind; the latter done with the help of Ted Kennedy.