Durbin Sides with Patriot Act Compromise

Says bill "falls far short" but he's still on board. The line Dems have to walk these days is literally a hair's breadth between duplicity or ludicrosity.

"If you measure it against the original Patriot Act . . . we've made progress" toward "protecting basic civil liberties at a time when we are dealing with the war on terrorism,"Durbin said.