Harry Reid berates Rand Paul for giving terrorists the “opportunity to plot against our country” while defending the PATRIOT Act

  The Senate is now debating the merits of extending the PATRIOT Act and Harry Reid has gone on the offensive defending the continuation of the PATRIOT Act by berating Rand Paul’s opposition to the legislation, claiming that if the PATRIOT Act is not extended it would give the terrorists the “opportunity to plot against our country.”

  While condemning Rand Paul’s opposition to the PATRIOT Act as “political grandstanding” this is what Harry Reid had to say in defense of the act:

“When the clock strikes midnight tomorrow, we will be giving terrorists the opportunity to plot against our country undetected,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “Now, the Senator from Kentucky is threatening to take away the best tools we have for stopping them”

  According to Harry Reid’s statement, Rand Paul is opposing this issue purely for political reasons and his opposition to the PATRIOT Act would make the United States more vulnerable to attacks by terrorists who seek to destroy this country. I find this position to be quite interesting indeed because it was Harry Reid himself who opposed the PATRIOT Act in 2005 and stood on the steps of the capital and proudly declared, “we killed the PATRIOT Act” to the applause of those who were gathered there.

   And yet now that a Democrat is in the White House Harry Reid is defending the very legislation that he opposed in 2005 when a Republican was in the White House, and he has the balls to declare that Rand Paul is grandstanding for political reasons? What this should prove to the American people is that it was Democrats such as Harry Reid and Barack Obama who were simply opposing the PATRIOT Act in 2005 for political reasons. The fact that Harry Reid and Barack Obama are now asking for the continuation of a policy they so vehemently opposed a few short years ago should show the American people that it was the Democrats who opposed the PATRIOT Act back in the day who were the ones who were “grandstanding” a few short years ago.

  Harry Reid and Barack Obama’s duplicity, hypocrisy, and political gamesmanship is on full display here; during the debate over the PATRIOT Act what was once a “great moment for our Constitution and our democracy and a great moment in the fight against terrorism” according to Russ Feingold when the PATRIOT Act was defeated in 2005 is now “political grandstanding” now that Barack Obama is in the White House.

  These people’s hypocrisy is so obvious that it should be insulting to the vast majority of the American people.