Here’s a quote from Barack Obama in 2004.
When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what’s in them and nobody has read them…. It gets rushed through without any clear deliberations or debate then these kinds of things happen and I think this is in some ways what happened to the Patriot Act. I mean you remember, there was no real debate about that. It was so quick after 9/11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration.
Now everywhere it says Patriot Act replace it with either Stimulus Bill, or TARP, or Universal Health Care. Hmmmmmmm. Who was he talking about?