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Originally Posted by Rekna
Bipartisan support when it was passed is very iffy. It was passed in haste after a major disastor. This was during a time where anyone who questioned the president even slightly was considered unpatriotic and would have been roasted alive. It is sad that such a thing could happen. Hopefully people never let something like this happen again.
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So it wasn't bipartisan support since the Dems were somehow alleviated of their responsibility to read, understand, and challenge if necessary the legislation put before them for a vote by the fact that there was a major disaster preceding it? If anything that's a reason to vote every one of the legislators (Democrats and Republicans) out of office who supported it and then, when they got around to reading the details, decided it was a "bad" law. We need our Representatives to be ready to stand up and be effective in the days, weeks, and months after a disaster. We do not need excuses later on about how they couldn't really come out against it because the atmosphere was tough. That's not leadership. That's protecting their chances for re-election at the expense of the country and it's unacceptable.