Congress pushes back, hard, against Bush | csmonitor.com

Congress pushes back, hard, against Bush | csmonitor.com

A good summary of recent news about our President and Congress.

A few related thoughts...

"Patriot Act" - what a strange name. It reminds me too much of how language was used in the novel "1984" by George Orwell - using language in the opposite of what it really means, as in "War is Peace", etc.

Much of the Patriot Act is extremely unpatriotic, as in un-American. I don't think I'm alone in feeling that I'd rather risk a terrorist attack then have the Government know our personal business, such as what books we buy, what books we take out from the library, etc. Something like this qualifies as a terrorist win. It is making us less American, isn't it?

Besides, it sounds like overkill, taking away so much privacy for just what gain, exactly?

In the meantime the 9/ll Commission's recommendations go ignored, Homeland Security remains underfunded on the local level (our first responders), our borders are leaky, our airplanes still aren't safe enough (is the cargo really checked?), what about our ports? Etc.

Another privacy issue - the secret eavesdropping that's just come to light. How American is this? And just how necessary is this, really?