Where Was The Tea Party On The PATRIOT Act?

You know that since Republicans became the majority in the House of Representatives, they have voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act 37 times. They’ve voted on the PATRIOT Act just once — to extend it, in 2011.

A new Pew Poll shows that there is plenty of hypocrisy when it comes to surveillance by the National Security Agency on both sides of the aisle.

In the wake of revelations that the Bush administration was using warrantless wiretaps to monitor phone calls and Internet activity of American citizens when communicating outside of the U.S., 75 percent of Democrats opposed that activity. In 2013, with Barack Obama in the White House and NSA surveillance sanctified in law and supervised by courts set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, 64 percent of Democrats approve of it.

Republicans have reversed course too, with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly — a supporter of Bush NSA activity — now calling for the program to be dismantled.



But the Tea Party — with its supposed focus on “Constitutional” values — rarely took on its own party for first passing and then extending the PATRIOT Act. Instead, it attacked Obamacare ceaselessly — even though the Founders had approved their own health care mandate — and recently rose up to defend the Second Amendment with great sound and fury.

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