The democrats support freedom over fascist right wing tyranny, that's why the democrats presented the bill, and only a single right winger signed on.
Fascist right wing tyranny?
The last time Republicans were in charge was 2006.
Since then its been all Dem controlled, but you still have to blame Republicans for everything. Dems had a chance to change any law they wanted with their super majority, and failed to do so. So every law on the books is on them.
We'll see if Reid will ever let this particular bill to be voted on, much less Dems actually voting in favor of it.
And it was the Republicans that introduced expanded surveillance capabilities via the Patriot Act, torture, the DOHS, the AUMF, "enemy combatants" and a plethora of liberty and privacy killing policies and law.
Did they expect a Democratic President, starved of resources by them, to give up these powers because of ideology and risk another major terrorist attack?
If Republicans are truly interested in shutting this horrible legislation down, add resources to our intelligence agencies so they can get more folks on the ground.