Oldtimer said:
There now- another thing you can thank GW for...
Prior to GW there was no Dept of Homeland Security- but thanks to GW he combined all or portions of 187 agencies and Departments ( including some aspects of Health and Human Services) into the biggest and most powerful bureaucracy this country has ever seen...
And if you remember- the tax cuts didn't slow down GW either- he just kept saying "charge it"...And if you protested that spending- you were proclaimed unAmerican and unpatriotic...
So now they have Zillions $ to tell the Larrry's of the world not to eat raw turkey- or how not to burn down your house with hot oil turkey cookers... :wink: :lol:
BLAME BUSH FOR OBAMA'S OVERREACH. TYPICAL OLDTIMER :roll:
FGS Oldtimer under Bush Homeland Security was set up to deal with acts of
TERRORISM,
Homeland security is officially defined by the National Strategy for Homeland Security as "a concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur".
Under Obama Homeland Security has moved into advising on cooking of turkeys. :roll: And people wonder why people don't trust the Obama Government's overreach of power. :roll:
According to you Testor is working hard to do away with the Patriot Act but just what is he doing when the extention passed on a 74 to 8 vote in the Senate last spring? Did he even try to amend the Act? NOT according to reports about who presented amendments to it before the 74 to 8 vote was taken. Oh and according to Politico the vote was 72 to 23 with 19 Dems voting nay. :shock: :roll:
Hours earlier, the bill cleared the Senate on a 72-23 vote, with 19 Democrats and four Republicans voting no, mostly over concerns the Patriot Act violates personal privacy and civil liberties.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55803.html#ixzz1eel2LERU
FACTS are if you check the Senate roll call vote results
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00075
Politico lied as 74 voted yea, 4 Dems Baucas, Testor, Begich, Merkley and 3 Republicans with 1 Independent filled out the 8 nay votes registered. According to the record 18 didn't vote at all which included 12 Republicans . SO who were the
19 Dems that voted no because it violated personal privacy and civil liberties? :? :roll: With Leftist reporting like this no wonder the Dem supporters are as dumb as a box of hoe handles. :roll:
Now getting back to your comment Oldtimer Looks like he only convinced 3 other Dems to vote with him or was it long time Senator Baucus that convinced Newbie Testor to vote against it? :? Either way it passed and it passed with all the far reaching parts INTACT. As Rand Paul's, a REPUBLICAN, amendments were shut down.
So if you want to blame anyone of the extented Patriot Act and overreach of the Department of Homeland Security, I suggest you look at the Dems who CONTROL THE SENATE. Who also controled the Senate when "Bush was financing two wars". The same Dems that were warned by Bush about the dangers of not reining in Fanny and Freddy and
DID NOTHING. The same Dems that you continuely overlook while you are blaming Bush for everything. :roll: :x