Thursday’s developments perfectly sum up the completely ineffective nature of Obama and the Democrats: the Patriot Act was extended and there were hours of staged histrionics on health care reform that will go nowhere.
Here is Reuters describing the Patriot Act extension:
Legislation to extend expiring provisions of the anti-terror USA Patriot Act won final congressional approval on Thursday, with Democrats unable to add additional civil liberties protections.
On vote of 315-97, the House of Representatives approved the bill, a day after it cleared the Senate. It now heads to President Barack Obama to sign into law.
Pity the poor Democrats. They control the White House and huge majorities in both chambers, but they just can’t manage to restore civil liberties taken away by the Republicans under Bush. Those mean Republicans will just say no.
Also on Thursday there were over seven hours of highly staged “debate” on health care reform. Even though the Olympics are in Vancouver, the Republicans put on a gold medal performance in foot stomping in the Washington Nolympics. I’ve included the exclusive footage I found.
And again, the Democrats are left muttering to themselves about just how hard it’s going to be to get reform all on their own. They’ve only been trying for a year, and now they don’t even “control” sixty votes in the Senate, so what do we expect from them anyway?
