A Boston Tea Party …(Hit List)

Today the “greatest and most elite country club in the nation” the U.S. Senate voted to set back the Patriot Act to pre 9/11 levels. Republicans were not able to must enough Democrat votes to over come a threatened filibuster so the Patriot Act, which is set to expire on 12/31, will cease to exist in its current state.

So two weeks after the 9/11 commission states the obvious that our federal government is not doing enough to protect us from terrorism the entire Democratic Party decides to place us at a higher risk. Not surprisingly, the two servants of North Dakota, Senators Dorgan and Conrad, voted with the others in their party. Senator Dorgan is under attack from his involvement with Jack Abramoff and Conrad failed to distance himself from Howard Dean’s remarks about America not being able to win in Iraq like Earl Pomeroy did.

A representative of Dorgan’s office gave me a tour of the capital last week. He commented to me that the Senator does not care if you are a Republican or a Democrat but rather he is concerned with doing what is best for the citizens of North Dakota. I maybe naive but I am willing to bet most North Dakotan’s are in favor of extending the Patriot Act in its current state. Dorgan’s and Conrad’s idea of doing what is best for North Dakota translates to “I know what is best for North Dakota.

The “no” vote by Democrats today places them on the “hit list”. Their vote will make it easier for terrorists to function in this country and the next time we are hit by a terrorist attack the list of “no” votes is where we can begin to place blame. Every day we move further away from 9/11 we seem less able to win the war against terrorism. It is if Democrats don’t think we will ever be attacked again. It was a one time unusual event to them.