Six More Months of Patriotism on Our Throats

Well it's better than a flat acceptance of the Patriot Act in full as permanent legislation, which is where things seemed to be heading before Katrina hit, the economy burped and some members of congress began to find their spine.

So now, instead of expiring in whole at the end of the year, the Senate went for a 6 month extension (they had originally suggested 3 months, but Bush blustered some nonsense about unpatriotic behavior and preferring to let it expire than sign a 3 month extension, and they doubled the temporary extension).

Now let's get this right. If the legislation expired at the end of this month the US would be subject to horrible consequences the enormity of which we could barely imagine. But Bush would rather expose us to that than sign a 3 month extension?

hmmmmmmmm