Thank god if this goes to the courts that we don’t have a bunch of right wing wackos on the bench…oh wait…

Just earned a quarter of my vote. Edwards has the other quarter… Dennis has the other half :)

Funny, I feel so happy when politicians step up and do the right thing. Seems my expectations are set rather low.

Still good on him.

Obama is the real deal.

Get up there and stand the ground of the American people! There should be no caveats, no problem deciding what to do or when. The Democratic party has one more chance to show the people it’s with them. Otherwise… they’ll be in trouble come election time. The people want action, not indecisive, butt-covering bureaucrats.

The RESTORE act also gives immunity to anyone that assists the government in illegally gaining physical access to your property. So if you live in an apartment and the landlord allows the FBI into your apartment without a warrant, the landlord would be protected from any legal actions despite the law being broken. This provision also needs to go.

Hillary will come on board next. She and Obama seem to have a contest going on regarding who will blink first. He did, so she will.

Unless you look at a liberal blog page, the rest of the world won’t even know. I did some searching and cannot find any news about Dodd’s recent promises, and now Barack either. Even the AP, who have done nothing but report the current race for the white house, don’t have any posts.

Will he be supportive from inside the chamber? Or from the campaign bus?

Judge Southwick was confirmed today and of course Lieberman joined with the Repubs.

This is sort of a good news, bad news day.

I’m happy Obama is doing what he’s doing but I just wish it hadn’t taken him so long to see the difference in right and wrong. Common sense tells all of us that no companies should be given legal immunity if they broke the law.

Good.

Congress and the American people should be spying on Bush and Cheney.

Investigations and hearings have found that Richard B. Cheney, George W. Bush and other civil officers in our Government have lied to the American People, politicized National Security, committed Treason, Fraud, Bribery, Profiteering, Obstruction of Justice and High Crimes AGAINST the United States, our public institutions, our Treasury, our people and the World.

Good quesion, Miss Kitty.

Well it seems as if the “front runners” are playing catch up with Dodd…Methinks a Kucinich/Dodd ticket looks damn good compared to any other dem running…seem they’re the only two dems with any cojones…

I still don’t trust him. We’ll see. Good to see though that he is at least publicly supporting this.

Amen to the Kucinich / Dodd ticket.

Now that Obama is in, Hillary will probably follow. The more important issue is who is supporting ex post facto immunity. It basically stipulates that the law was broken. We should applaud those who ae against it, but also denounce those who support it.

Some Baptist preacher will come out against it and he’ll submit a “clarification.”

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We have a lot of problems in government, and we must have the strength to collectively acknowledge them and deal with them.

Don’t tell me. Let me guess. This filibuster will somehow end with the Dems giving in and passing the bill along.

And there’ll be reasons, we’ll be told. “Oh, you don’t UNDERSTAND, the filibuster only has ’stunt value.’ The Republicans were going to force the Democrats to carry it out, so they had to back down.”

Oddly, it will be the exact OPPOSITE set of reasons used to explain why Republican filibusters can NEVER be broken. “Oh, you don’t UNDERSTAND, the Republicans were threatening to filibuster, so the Democrats had no choice but to withdraw the bill. Forcing them to carry it out would only have ’stunt value.’”

Why is it that Republican ’stunts’ (censure of free speech, filibustering any accountability on the war, etc) all seem to get THEM what THEY want, but Democratic, excuse me, Democrat ’stunts’ never seem to have any effect?

I love how Obama, Hillary, and Edwards always follow others instead of leading, yet they want to be the President of the U.S.

They are slow, but they are catching on.

Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Obama — it’s a boy.

Telecoms gave away your private information for money.
They will do it again unless they are punished.

I’m voting with my wallet.

Oh wait, it’s been empty for five years.

Regardless of what you think of Obama, this is good news. Anything that puts the spotlight on this issue is a good thing.

The pols — Dems and Repukes — knew there wouldn’t be any public support for telecom immunity. People don’t like immunity deals, and they like phone companies even less. They were hoping they could hustle it through without attracting a lot of attention. From this point on, opposition will only grow.

FOX is State Sponsored TV @ 24:

Telecoms gave away your private information for money.
They will do it again unless they are punished.

bizzy bees buzz to make money, honey. Enjoy it on your bread, or even in your head… everything that’s yummy- already’s been said. and sold.

The jockeying continues.. Maybe he’ll stick by his guns on this. I hope so.. We need someone with a ‘d ‘beside their name to make a stand on this and keep it. I want to like this guy, I really do.. .But then, I’ve wanted to like a lot of them…. I guess we’ll see one way or the other…JD

I am pleased…

It would be interesting if a repub or two joined in. I guess their constituents enjoy paying for phone service and then having their private information handed over to the govt. They may say that by doing this attacks have been prevented, if that’s the case they need to show me the proof. If such a thing did happen they can’t say it’s classified because it would give away govt secrets, we already know how they got the information.

At least he is being groomed as a potential future Prez. Molded, whatever term you prefer.

pissed off patricia @ 10:

Judge Southwick was confirmed today and of course Lieberman joined with the Repubs.

This is sort of a good news, bad news day.

I’m happy Obama is doing what he’s doing but I just wish it hadn’t taken him so long to see the difference in right and wrong. Common sense tells all of us that no companies should be given legal immunity if they broke the law.

Damn Feinstein was the linchpin on the Southwick crap. These underqualified, idealogue judges will be here for decades thanks to this flacid congress. Of course, the only reason Bush appoints them is their ideology, but you can’t reject them based on their ideology, right?

This is getting very little play in the mainstream media. How can a Repub defend blanket immunity for an enormous corporation, but more scrutiny on you?

I heard Rachael Maddow yesterday talking about how Sen. Rockefeller (D-WV) suddenly started getting enormous contributions from telecom companies as soon as he took the Judicial Committee chair. So, how does one prove a quid pro quo? Let’s call Patrick Fitzgerald; he seemed to have a shred of integrity.

Link: http://blog.wired.com/27bstrok.....g-spy.html

Ah, the guy is having a homophobe in his rally this w/e.

I think he’s losing credibility.

Any ideas how to get the U.S. out of debt?

All right - I’m ready to consider Obama now. Other than that - it’s Edwards or Dodd.
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Trittydi @ 36:

All right - I’m ready to consider Obama now. Other than that - it’s Edwards or Dodd.
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Whoops. My excitement over this caused temporary amnesia about the homophobic guy. Well - “consider” is still an option.
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L.A. Confidential @ 35:

Any ideas how to get the U.S. out of debt?

Get out of Iraq and raise taxes on the rich.

Good for Obama. He should have said it earlier of course, but this is good.

Separately, can we do something about all the shilling going on here for Edwards and Kucinich, etc.. I mean really. Enough with the shilling! Am I right people?

It’s nice that you’re jumping on the boat, Barack, but Chris Dodd already beat you to the punch. That and the fact that you’re supporting an ex-gay bigot has lost you my vote and sent it to Dodd.

But the support is always appreciated. ;)

Thank you, Obama. We need everyone behind this. Obama was my favorite until a month ago or so when he stated he couldn’t say he’d have the troops home by 2013 but this sure helped him in my book.

A real follower. Just who we need for president. This man is a coward, or as we call them in Nevada, a chickenshit. So far Dodd is the only Democratic contender with guts. How can people support such a weakling as Obama? Oh, well, moot point. The GOP election fixing machine is being oiled and lubed as I write. Once it’s fired up, King Rudy will be crowned and there won’t be a damn thing you or I can do about it. All hail King Rudy.

I still do not believe that Hillary will suppost a filibuster. I think she will issue a carefully worded statement that we will take as her support and when all is said and done, she will oppose the filibuster. I truly wish that I could support HRC, but I just don’t trust her.

I have my work cut out for me too because my mother-in-law and her sister are planning on voting for Hillary strictly based on the fact that she is a woman. I’m a woman and I can’t vote for her.

OK . . . this time I really AM going to hold my breath ! Here goes. . .

Good! The more people willing to stand up to the Old guard that champions Old ways of thinking the better… I mean this is the USA right?

Man, does he come across a a true DLC’er… amonth late and a dollar short??

Wait a minute. . . it looks like his fingers are crossed !

david @ 42:

A real follower. Just who we need for president. This man is a coward, or as we call them in Nevada, a chickenshit. So far Dodd is the only Democratic contender with guts. How can people support such a weakling as Obama? Oh, well, moot point. The GOP election fixing machine is being oiled and lubed as I write. Once it’s fired up, King Rudy will be crowned and there won’t be a damn thing you or I can do about it. All hail King Rudy.

You hit the nail on the head. Obama is as usless as everyother member of the Senate, with the small exception of Sen Dodd, and it took him seven years to stand up for the country. This week I donated to Sen Dodd (first time I’ve ever given money to a person running for office) and unsubscribed to Sen Obama’s mailing list. I wish I could take back my vote for Obama for Senate (not to give it to Alan Keyes but Obama is a huge disappointment).

Conan @ 21:

I love how Obama, Hillary, and Edwards always follow others instead of leading, yet they want to be the President of the U.S.

I totally agree Conan. It surprises me how the Media and most politicians are basically followers waiting for some authority figure or group dynamic to give them the okay to act. You can include many Americans in that equation as well. Sad, but reality.

It’s just a matter of following the right leaders for most people. Too bad they pick the worst. The rest of us should strive to lead as well.

OMG ! now his nose is growing ! ! !

Too late, Mr. Amato. Obama may be on the bus now, Clinton may come aboard, but neither is the bus driver. It’s time for Democrats to say no to the two front runners and look elsewhere. I think as a non-affiliated voter that I may have time to switch my affiliation to Democratic if Christopher Dodd comes up as a dark horse.

He must be getting desperate to catch up to Hillary.

One thing I like about it was Oprah endorsed him. She may be able to get her bimbots to buy crappy books, but hopefully that will be the extent of her influence.

Dave @ 1:

Thank god if this goes to the courts that we don’t have a bunch of right wing wackos on the bench…oh wait…

Who’s bench, the Red Socks?

I can’t believe some of the responses.. Is it a good thing that Obama is coming out publicly against immunity or not? From what I am reading people are saying Obama was wrong for not being in the forefront and also wrong for now coming out against Immunity.. Please excuse my ignorance but what is it that you people want?

Hey JD, remember our coversation about this whole debaucle?

I just wanted to say….I toll ya so…..in regard to the the trade of immunity for the records themselves….

Now if we could just hold our own here, within a year AT&T will be dismantled!!!

I’ll be a happy Camper!