Washington Post reports on a big loss for lame-duck W:
The House handed President Bush the first defeat in his effort to preserve the broad powers of the USA Patriot Act, voting yesterday to curtail the FBI's ability to seize library and bookstore records for terrorism investigations.The GOP really is starting to back away from Chimpy....the Repubs. in Congress are feeling more free to buck Bush...they are reading the polls, too.
Bush has threatened to veto any measure that weakens those powers. The surprise 238 to 187 rebuke to the White House was produced when a handful of conservative Republicans, worried about government intrusion, joined with Democrats who are concerned about personal privacy.
