CNN:

Lawmakers narrowly turned back an effort by Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Virginia, to renew the expiring Patriot Act provisions for four more years, rather than making them permanent — an amendment that drew spirited support from archconservative Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California.
Rohrabacher said he supported the Patriot Act in 2001 because of the threat faced by the country after 9/11, but only under the belief that once the emergency was over, “the government would again return to a level consistent with a free society.”
“We should not be required to live in peacetime under the extraordinary laws that were passed during times of war and crisis. Emergency powers of investigation should not become the standard once the crisis has passed,” he said, drawing applause from his colleagues.

Maybe I’m reading him wrong, but we’re living in peactime? We’re not in a time of war and crisis? News to me. News to the folks on the frontlines–at home and abroad.

UPDATE: Majority of people still reading tonight say I misread. Except, that is, for many Orange County e-mailers!