Silly people
All the partisan bloviators are blowing hard over the possibility that laws containing the acronym "NSA" may expire tonight.
Silly. Laws are the ONLY form of communication that NSA doesn't monitor. Laws are totally irrelevant to NSA's function, or to any bureaucracy's function. The only law that a bureaucracy obeys is Parkinson's Law: Budget and workforce shall increase exponentially.
If you want to get a message to NSA, call Grandma and ask her about God's laws, or text someone an inside stock tip. NSA will be interested in those topics. They will arrest Grandma and frontrun the stock tip.
Next day: Idiot Rand Paul, named after a vicious Soviet agent, says "I'm not going to take it any more!!!!! And the American people aren't going to take it any more!!!!!"
Well now, just exactly WHAT are we not going to take? We're not going to take
the existence of some words written on paper, which appear to give NSA authority for something it's always going to do anyway. In other words, Senator Named-After-Soviet-Agent is shouting and posturing against the waste of paper. Seems trivial, but I can't really complain. I hate to see paper and ink wasted on redundant nonsense, so I'm always happy to see fellow frugalites taking action.