As Congress wrangles over the Patriot Act provisions soon to expire, Jon Stewart laid into Republicans who complain about “government overreach” in healthcare, while simultaneously supporting invasive phone record collection programs from the NSA.
At one point, he played a clip of Republican Senator Tom Cotton declaring, “We don’t want politicians and bureaucrats in Washington making some of the most intimate decisions we face in our lives about healthcare.”
“We only want to collect their phone calls to their doctors, when they’re scheduling these intimate decisions,” Stewart joked.
And of course he pulled out his best Lindsey Graham impression.
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