By Matt Rooney | The Save Jersey Blog
While you were beaching…
Memorial Day Weekend is typically a media “black hole” for American politics, Save Jerseyans, as citizens fire up their barbecues and politicians march in local parades, but after the U.S. Senate blocked three key portions of the PATRIOT Act on Saturday morning, Governor Chris Christie released a strongly-worded statement via his national leadership political action committee.
“The Senate’s failure to extend the Patriot Act is a failure of the US government to perform its most important function – protecting its citizens from harm,” said Christie who just last week rolled out a comprehensive framework to rebuild the U.S. military. “This is the unfortunate result of misguided ideologues who have no real world experience in fighting terrorism putting their uninformed beliefs above the safety and security of our citizens. This dysfunction is what we have come to expect from Washington, DC, but usually it does not have such dangerous and severe consequences.”
Christie is walking a fine line in a GOP that’s fighting a resurgent isolationist streak. He and primary rival Jeb Bush are in agreement where the PATRIOT Act is concerned but the larger-than-life New Jerseyan and Kentucky’s Rand Paul, another 2016 contender who led the charge against the PATRIOT Act this weekend, have repeatedly clashed over the last couple of years over government overreach in the name of national defense among other topics.
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Christie’s and Bush’s record of defending the Constitution pales in comparisons to Paul’s. This latest example just shows how inept Christie and Bush would be at limiting government.
Rand is the only one who has stood up to defend the constitution & bill of rights.. He will make a good presadent.. we needto go back to the basics that built this country
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/242940-christie-accused-of-political-pornography-on-nsa
Rand Paul/Ted Cruz 2016