Mrs.PatsFanInVa

And people thought it would never happen!!

Nine House Republican freshmen and three inaugural members of the Tea Party Caucus voted against a proposed extension of three Patriot Act provisions Tuesday night, helping block the measure from passage under fast-track rules.

The House clearly backed the measure, voting 277 to 148 to extend the provisions, and most Republicans stuck by their leadership and supported the extension. But enough defected, joined by most Democrats, to keep the measure from receiving the two-thirds majority required for passage under the fast-track procedure.

Attention immediately swung to whether House members sympathetic to the tea party had decided the matter, especially after Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) said Monday that the vote would be "the tea party's first test."

The Republicans who voted no Tuesday night included Roscoe G. Bartlett (Md.), Paul Broun (Ga.) and Walter B. Jones (N.C.), all of whom were original members of the House Tea Party Caucus when it was founded last summer.

And nine GOP freshmen also voted no: Justin Amash (Mich.), Michael G. Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Christopher P. Gibson (N.Y.), Tom Graves (Ga.), Randy Hultgren (Ill.), Raul R. Labrador (Idaho), Robert Schilling (Ill.), David Schweikert (Ariz.) and Rob Woodall (Ga.).






http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/...ail-patri.html

Patters

It's be fun to see how righties handle this, since they're so used to marching in lockstep with their Party.

STFarmy

Good. I think it's a sign that some at least in the Tea Party are taking their constituents seriously. If they truly are a libertarian-ish movement, as they claim, this is the way one would expect them to vote. I know more than a few libertarians, and they had no love for the Patriot Act.

Nikolai

The Tea Party has some redeeming characteristics after all. Good on those 9 members!

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IcyPatriot

You and others need to pay more attention - tea party people are not necessarily conservatives. You may even become fond of them over time - not loving fond - perhaps just amusingly fond as in they will serve a purpose here and there just as the blue dogs did for the right here and there.

Patters

That was not my point. My point was about how other right wingers would react (and isn't it interesting that so far they're avoiding this thread).

That said, I know libertarians are not necessarily conservatives; the problem with libertarian ideas is that they play into the hands of bigots by supporting legalized discrimination, cutbacks to programs that tend to help those discriminated against, and support for policies that tend to help those who benefit from discrimination.

DarrylS

On most of the right wing sites this AM, the feeling seems to be that the Republicans were asleep at the wheel...

Patriot Act reverse surprises GOP - Washington Times

Rank-and-file reject Patriot Act - Jake Sherman and Marin Cogan - POLITICO.com

But in reality most of the Right Wing Site.. Hot Air, Townhall etc. choose to ignore this news, and are more concerned with what Sarah says or about the book that Bristol is going to "write"....

Such is the state of the news.. they want you to know what they want you to know..

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Harry Boy

Tea Partiers are old time Americans (real far left loons despise them) don't be surprised to see the Tea Party agree and support the Democrats on other things many Tea Partiers are just like me We Used To Be Democrats until the "Moonbats" took the party over.

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The Brandon Five

But you repeat yourself.

PatsWSB47

The thing is as much as some here want to go right to the ugly, some independence from party was indeed exercised here. Why not celebrate that?