BREAKING: Leahy to support Dodd filibuster!

[kpete]

BREAKING: Leahy to support Dodd filibuster!
by lordradish
Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 01:07:03 PM PST
Good news on the FISA front. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has released a statement saying he will support Senator Chris Dodd's FISA filibuster, should it occur.

From Leahy's office:

Tuesday is a critical day in our fight to stand up for American values and preserve our freedoms while protecting our national security.

Tomorrow the Senate will vote on amendments to FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the law governing the use of wiretaps and other means to conduct surveillance of foreign threats.

Unfortunately, the new FISA bill we'll be voting on Tuesday still has many problems. I will do everything in my power -- including joining my colleague Chris Dodd in a filibuster against this legislation -- to fix it.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/11/15591/5881/943/454691

http://ga3.org/leahyforvermont/notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=21443676&r=

[VP505]

1. Good news,

its going to take all the help Dodd can get to stop this insane immunity nonsense.

[spanone]

2. k&r

[malaise]

3. Feingold is on fire on CSPan 2 n/t

[lonestarnot]

4. Damn wish I was somewhere I could watch!

[malaise]

5. Dodd up now n/t

[lonestarnot]

8. What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...

What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...

[malaise]

18. He spoke about

those companies that did not violate the law. He also mentioned the Nuremberg trials when some persons on trial said they did what they were told. He said the Courts are there for a purpose.

Simply put he said no way!! No retroactive immunity.

[lonestarnot]

9. What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...

What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...What's he say'n...

[annabanana]

16. sorry lonestarnot... I'd live blog the whole thing, but I'm running around

the house doing stuff. . PLUS DU is achingly slow right now

[lonestarnot]

17. sok A.B. I'll watch as soon as I get home.

[orleans]

7. (on fire in a good way?) n/t

[SpiralHawk]

6. "Re-member, Mercury is still retrograde." - Ronald Reagan's Dead Astrologer*

"We republicon occultists will (smirk) be sure to keep it in mind."

- Ronald Regan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*


* Do not try this at home, kids. Courageously & expertly channeled by Ye Olde Spirale Hawke, who made prophylactic prepararations for communing the with the occult republicon netherworld by ingesting a half-dozen cream-filled doughnuts to ensure the purity of his precious bodily fluids.

[annabanana]

10. Dodd is quoting from "Man for All Seasons"

When asked if he would flatten all the laws to get at the Devil himself.. Sir Thomas More said "No, This Country is covered with laws, like trees.. If you flattened all the trees, where would you hide when the Devil turned around?"

[DearAbby]

11. Bless the patriots still fighting for our liberty!

[annabanana]

12. He chooses not to believe that B*sh would veto this bill to save the telecoms

[Robbien]

13. Yay!

The Illegal Telecos shouldn't get amnesty.

[annabanana]

14. "Why did some companies say "yes", and others "no"?

[annabanana]

15. Dodd yields the floor..

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

19. Every day is critical 'in our fight to stand up for American values,..preserve our freedoms,..."

Democracy is tanking.

I hope our kids are ready for what's ahead. We certainly weren't prepared for this assault.