{"id":339,"date":"2006-02-17T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=339"},"modified":"2006-02-17T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T15:00:29","slug":"the-patriot-act-will-be-re-authorized-more-or-less-in-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/02\/17\/the-patriot-act-will-be-re-authorized-more-or-less-in-full\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; The Patriot Act will be re-authorized more or less in full"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"004074\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&amp;session=2&amp;vote=00022\">As predictable as ever<\/a>, the battle that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005_12.html#003924\">brought together a handful of libertarian-minded Republicans<\/a> and a blinking &#8220;hey.  We have something here&#8221; party whipping for the Democratic caucus to unite behind Feingold &#8212; falls apart completely and it all dwindles to a handful of &#8220;nay&#8221; votes.<\/p>\n<p>The Three:<\/p>\n<p>Russ Feingold.  Robert Byrd.  Jim Jeffords.<\/p>\n<p>Well I guess <a href=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006_01.html#003965\">when Larry Craig&#8217;s principles<\/a> come from ignoring the current presidential malfeasance and looking to the day a Democrat will be in power to commit malfeasances, I guess you can expect nothing less.  As soon as the fig-leaf is put in place to claim something happened with the bill that didn&#8217;t, naturally.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/16\/AR2006021602155_pf.html\">Do I need to tell you where the Senate is taking its probe into Bush&#8217;s wire-tapping?<\/a>  Nay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As predictable as ever, the battle that brought together a handful of libertarian-minded Republicans and a blinking &#8220;hey. We have something here&#8221; party whipping for the Democratic caucus to unite behind Feingold &#8212; falls apart completely and it all dwindles to a handful of &#8220;nay&#8221; votes. The Three: Russ Feingold. Robert Byrd. Jim Jeffords. Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}