We threw out the Constitution through the Patriot Act :(

Outsourced to Reason:

The reauthorized USA PATRIOT Act has passed the Senate 72-23 and the House 250-153. It heads now to the desk of Barack Obama, who will veto it, in accord with his rhetoric as a senator sign it before the midnight deadline.
So the bastards won, as we always knew they would in the end.

Yes, the bastards won.  We get closer and closer to 1984.  Awful bastards we have as elected representatives from both the parties.

Glenn Greenwald is, as one can imagine, well ... here he is:

Harry "Rove" Reid now joins Dianne Feinstein in announcing that any Senators who try to delay extension of the Patriot Act are risking a Terrorist attack.  Here's what the Majority Leader said about Rand Paul's attempts to add reforms:

"If the senator from Kentucky refuses to relent," Reid said earlier Wednesday, "that would increase the risk of a retaliatory terrorist strike against the homeland and hamper our ability to deal a truly fatal blow to al-Qaida."

It's so outrageous how those Rovian Republicans try to exploit the Terrorist threat to extract civil-liberties-abridging legislation they want, isn't it?  In sum, Congress -- with the Democratic leadership and the White House fully on board -- is trying not only to extend the Patriot Act with no reforms, but prevent any debate on whether that should happen.

So, where are all those Democrats who pilloried Karl Rove and Dick Cheney for saying the same things, right?  Bloody bastards in every party out to screw us all.  There are no two parties in America--it is all the same "screw 'em all" party that rules.

Reason also points out how Al "Fourth Amendment" Franken turns around to vote in support of the Patriot Act