What the Hell?
UPDATE: Dodd says he’ll filibuster the bill if Reid brings it to the floor. Go, Chris!
First, our supposedly majority Democratic Congressional leaders decide to let Bush have his way with the Telecom Protection Act new FISA bill. Then Sen. Chris Dodd, who has made restoration of the Constitution a platform in his presidential campaign, announces that he’ll put a hold on any bill that grants retroactive immunity to telecoms that went along with presidential orders to hand over their customers’ calling records. Of course, Bush says the telecoms did nothing wrong, so why do they need immunity?
Now, it seems Harry Reid plans to ignore Sen. Dodd’s hold, an unprecedented move, and bring up the bill in November. Gee, thanks, Harry. Way to stand up for the citizens you purport to represent.
October 19th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I can only shake my head.
October 19th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Amen. And look at what our future attorney general said about it.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Harry Reid is a eunuch.
October 19th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Are we in trouble yet?
October 20th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
Dodd can rise up and block FISA.
But Speaker Botox can’t cut funding for the Iraq war? Aw, what am I missing here?
October 21st, 2007 at 8:19 am
It’s hopeful to see at least one presidential candidate from each major party saying that they would work to restore the constitution if elected to office. Sadly, neither Dodd nor Ron Paul is considered a front-runner. If that changed it would be interesting and really refreshing to see the next election boil down to those two facing one another.
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 pm
[...] campaign that the first thing he’d do when elected would be to restore the Constitution. He refused to back down when Bush tried to push through a FISA bill that granted retroactive immunity to telecom companies [...]