Almost Business As Usual

Warning: foul language lies ahead. Lots. Even the f-bomb, repeatedly.

Well, I guess the House of Representatives got my letter yesterday by mistake. Understandable, with so many douchebags in Washington, a letter like that could easily reach the wrong address.

Of course, in departure from that sort of near-predictability, the House took the message to mean that they should stop spending all my fucking money so they can shit all over my rights (all quoted text is from this linked article). See, a portion of the We Can Fuck You Out Of Your Rights If We Can Construe You As A Terrorist Act Patriot Act came up for renewal, and quite nearly passed. Naturally, since that turd of a law (but I repeat myself) was Hooray, Republican!, the Dems were all lined up against it.

I haven't wanted to kick a puppy so bad as I did when I read Dennis Kucinich's response to the failure of the extension to pass:

"The Patriot Act represents the undermining of civil liberties,"

Hey, Dennis? How did you vote on Obamacare? You don't get to put on your cape and tights in defense of my civil liberties. Please go fuck yourself. Silently.

Thanks to a brave few Tea-Party Republicans (EDIT: it is hard to drip with sarcasm on a blog) the bill failed, much to the dismay of Other-Party Citizen-Fuckers the Republican base as a whole. Naturally, the Rs disagree:

House leaders rejected that analysis. "Democrats in Congress voted to deny their own administration's request for key weapons in the war on terror," said Erica Elliott, spokeswoman for Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

Here we go. *sigh*

Rep. Steve Southerland (R-Fla.), a freshman who voted yes, said the measure is "going to need some examination going forward, so all I did today is just, hey, instead of making a wrong decision, we're just going to do a little more due diligence to make the very right decision to both protect our security as well as protect the civil liberties of the American people."

"This is just a temporary extension, so the Judiciary Committee can dive a little deeper into the details," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), a second-term lawmaker closely aligned with tea party activists. "That seemed fair. I don't want to let it expire without giving it full contemplation."

Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), who sponsored the extension, told reporters after the vote that opposition had little to do with the particular provisions being considered Tuesday and more to do with other counter-terrorism tools that have received scrutiny. "People didn't understand it," he said. "A lot of the complaints that we heard were about sections [of the law] not in this bill."

Hey, look over there! Don't look over here at the truth! Look over there, at the smoke! That is where happy and stuff is! Look, before I tell you all to collectively GFY (silently, mind you), know that a few of us (again, with the sarcasm difficulties) are hearing what you are saying. You are saying that you just wanted to extend the law - the one that no one really complained about anyway - for a few months so you can really study it and consider it. Also, we just don't understand.

Yeah. Fuck you.

But the highlight of the story comes from the White House. Yes, that one, with the Democrat to End All Democrats, Mr. Socialized Medicine himself. Remember the whole civil liberties thing? Yeah, uuhhh:

The White House said in a statement Tuesday that it "does not object" to extending the three Patriot Act provisions until December. However, it added, the administration "would strongly prefer" an extension until December 2013, noting that the longer timeline "provides the necessary certainty and predictability" that law enforcement agencies require while at the same time ensuring that Congress can continue to review the law's effectiveness.

We don't really like it, but we won't object. We'd really like a longer extension though, you know, for more of that studying and considering.

Yup, you guessed it. Yourself. Go. Silently.

Remember folks, this law failed by a measly seven votes short of a supermajority which was needed under special rules for laws that aren't controversial. I guess controversial only means for... Well, I guess controversial doesn't mean shit. Fuck their rules. They don't care about them, why should we?

Also remember that this just means the measure will come up again during regular-old voting, where only a simple majority will be needed. Once again Congress shows that they have all kinds of ways of fucking you, including "special rules" and multiple bites at the apple with varying numbers of votes required.

Fuck Congress, both houses. Fuck the White House. Fuck Democrats. Fuck Republicans. Fuck the Tea Party. Fuck the laws they create and enact.

Fuck 'em all.



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