Yahooooo—-Congratulations to Senator Dodd for showing what a little backbone can do. Harry Reid tabled the FISA bill just a few minutes ago. Thanks to the many C&Lers and the entire Progressive blogosphere for all the emails, comments and phone calls that helped put the pressure on when it was needed most.
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Matt Browner-Hamlin writes:
Without Senator Dodd’s leadership today, it is safe to assume that retroactive immunity would have passed. This is a great victory for the American people. His outspoken opposition to retroactive immunity and the Intelligence Committee’s FISA bill made it impossible to move forward now…read on
Logan Murphy made the vids and says:
In his closing speech Dodd vowed to filibuster again in January if telecom amnesty is still part of the FISA legislation. This speech should be watched by every student, every member of Congress as well as all Americans who value their civil liberties. No matter which presidential candidate you support, you can’t get around the fact that this is what REAL, American leadership looks like. Bravo Senator Dodd, BRAVO!
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Thank you Senator Dodd. Senator Kennedy you ripped up the carpet. We are right behind you.
giving us hope
Great!!! this is the best news this week! I love it!
I guess it’s one for the American Citizens!
also I saw the headline question on yahoo news: Should news media withhold identity of mass killers?
does this mean they are not going to mention George Bush or Dick Cheney in the news anymore?
the power of one… out of, what, 228 or so?? all the more important demonstration why we need such democratic numbers against corruption.
Thank you, Senator Dodd. Thank you.
Frist!
I am relieved. Thanks to Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Harry Ried and Arlen Spector for not allowing this inane bill to pass. Looks like our civil rights are still intact….. for now.
THANK YOU DODD! I cannot say this any more sincerely - you have saved my belief in this country. You still have an uphill battle next month, but thank you!
No sh*t???? A Democrat with spine? Show this guy some love and send his campaign a few dollars. If Ron Paul can raise $5 mil in a day for doing nothing, Chris Dodd is certainly worthy of a grass roots groundswell of financial support for this.
I don’t get it…I really don’t. Reid sold out his credibility as a liberal…and for what? Tabling the bill as is only shows that he’s spineless in all capacities, not just when he thinks nobody is watching. Well guess what Harry, we’re watching and we’ll be watching all the more closely and ever closer every time you stab Americans in the back. I hope your integrity and the respect of your constituency was worth the thousands or possibly hundreds of thousands that you sold it for. I spit on you.
Great to know there are people like Dodd around.
But, won’t the twerp-in-chief just veto it if it’s passed? What happens then?
Bravo Sen. Dodd.
Quotes
“Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote.
Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty.
Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act.
Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act.
What did Conservatives do? They opposed them on every one of those things ? every one.
So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, ‘Liberal,’ as if it were something to be ashamed of,
something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work, Senator, because I will pick up
that label and I will wear it as a badge of honor.”
— Matt Santos
Imagine that. The Republicans have been using the threat of a filibuster to table sensible legislation for years. It took someone on the other side of the aisle this long to figure out that it could work for them as well. I don’t know if I should be excited or dumbfounded, but in either case I am glad Dodd showed some backbone here.
I’m confused…http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1741430720071218
Reid’s spinelessness works in OUR favor for once- hooray!
Actually this story…http://www.reuters.com/article.....0720071218 …makes it look like there is a lot of weasel room.
I wouldn’t start celebrating yet. But it’s a start.
msnbc says their going to bring it back after the holidays..???what is going on?
I’m reminded of that moment at the end of the first Star Wars when the Tie Fighter gets clipped, Vader spins away and Han yells, “Wahoooo!”
Rock on Chris Dodd. Rock %$@#ing on!!!
This is good news. I’m cautiously optimistic. Thank you Senator Dodd, for standing for the Constitution and not Big Business!
He might win my vote yet, but only if he impeaches next.
mudshark @ 17:
Insanity
mudshark @ 17:
You tell me.
Bush’s phone immunity bill wins Senate vote
Reuters - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush’s demand for immunity for telephone companies that participated in his warrantless domestic spying program won an initial victory on Monday in the U.S. Senate.
http://www.reuters.com/article.....0720071218 WTF!!!!!Would someone explain what the F is going on….
Reid is weak.
Dodd reveals it.
OOOPS…”Bush’s phone immunity bill wins Senate vote” Washington Post
Yessssssss!
I just gave his campaign $25 (all I can afford for now). Please go and give him what you can as a thank you for standing up for us.
Senator Dodd and Senator Kennedy demonstrate what real leadership is about.
mudshark @ 23:
Spin, lies, manipulation, corruption. Welcome to the New World Disorder.
He’s one of the real leaders in the Senate and not one of the suits with the official title.
L.A. Confidential @ 22:
gulp!….help………………………………………
This is the candidate that should be the Democratic front runner. He’s showing integrity while the others cautiously voice support, poll on the issue and vote “present”.
At least someone has some balls in this government. I have never heard of granting immunity to a)corporations and b)corporations who claim to have done nothing wrong.
I am so proud of Senator Dodd! Kennedy’s speech was fantastic too. Feingold has always impressed me. Obama? Clinton? Where in the hell WERE you? I won’t forget that you weren’t there.
Awesome!
They called us “leftist” and “irrational” but they can’t beat the passionate commitment of Americans to the Rule of Law.
On to the fight in January!
Congrats to Chris Dodd, and congrats to America!
L.A. Confidential @ 28:
if this is what’s happening……those fuckers are psychotic nutcases…………….yeah I know,I know.
The earlier 76-10 vote was to move the act forward and end debate on the measure. It wasn’t a vote to approve bill 2248.
Thank You Senator Chris Dodd! YOU ROCK!!!!
on another note:
wonder why the network$ aren’t reporting this?
Thank you Sen. Dodd
This is why I Am A Liberal And A Progressive And A Democrat
I am a liberal because it is the political philosophy of freedom and equality.(of Opportunity,of Justice, of Genders,of Races,etc.etc. see Jefferson and Lincoln’s words) And I am a progressive because it is the political path to a better future. And I am a Democrat because it is the political party that believes in freedom, equality and progress. Oh yeah, and because our liberal revolutionary Founders like Paine & Jefferson were liberals who fought against conservative Loyalists like the godfather of conservatism Edmund Burke. ( see the debate between Liberal Thomas Paine’s RIGHTS OF MAN and conservative Edmund Burke’s drivel supporting autocracy)
Till this day, conservatives revile Paine as a commie/pinko. Typical con ingrates and hypocrites
Congratulations America for waking up in 2006 and throwing the corrupt conservatives out of congress for another 40+ years in the wilderness!
“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.
“Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word…We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (father of modern American liberalism and greatest president of 20th century)—according to 99% of historians!
“No question that Authoritarianism in modern Conservatism is Proto-Fascism.”
John Dean—former Nixon aide and also a personal friend and confidant of Barry Goldwater and author of
CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT CONSCIENCE.
Liberalism is our salvation, we must commit ourselves to the principle of Liberty and distributed power or conservatism will destroy civilization.—Me
“If Liberals Hated America, We’d Vote Republican !”–anonymous
Slabo @ 11:
Thing Fish @ 37:
ok,ok I get it now…….Whewwww!
Watched it all day.
Great job Senator Dodd.
mudshark @ 36:
Actually it is not entirely wrong. Earlier there was a vote on cloture (sp?) and it did pass that to make it to the floor. Somebody appears to not understand the difference between the cloture vote and the actual vote for the bill. Sad, but apparently true.
What was that picture I am reminded of….Truman smiling and holding up the newspaper: “Dewey Wins!”
Seems like the media has already written the news on this one.
Now if they will show some spine on impeachment.
mudshark @ 36:
Former Bush insider in 2001
The first thing the Bush Administration said was we’re going to go out and make new friends in this world. No, we’re not. That was a lie. We’re going to make new enemies as a precursor to increase global tension, which in turn is a precursor to turn back the clock to a world that they understand, a world where the old cabal works, a world where it is the waste, fraud, abuse, graft, corruption, and malfeasance of yesterday that the Bushonian faction of the military-industrial complex understands. It is a world where things can remain hidden under “National Security.”
Chris Dodd is the man!
The Reuters headline bites. Are they actively trying to convince people this fight is over so no one will be bothering the politicians with emails and phone calls on this issue. Dodd and those who stood with him deserve the glory. Glad C&L can provide it for them anyway.
Thank you, Senator Dodd. Bravo, indeed!
Big Big Kudos To Dodd… (note to self… write check to Dodd if he runs for the Senate again!).
2nd note to self… write every damn Dem in the Senate to demand Reid’s resignation and then get Dodd to be Majority Leader!
3rd not to self… keep watching because you know that these mother F***s will wait until the national distraction is on something else and will try to push this through again, probably a closed door session or something. Harumph… the price of liberty is constant vigilance.
Hurray and congratulations Senator Dodd. Today you restored some of my faith in America– that you are a law-abiding nation– and garnered a great deal of my respect for your foresight and perseverance! Well done. Now, I hope some other politicians and presidential candidates take note.
(Now, remind me again, why were the Dems –Harry Reid– so afraid of a filibuster. That’s democracy at work.)
I was watching… I thought they said Reid just put it over till January? That’s not exactly a victory… just a postponement of defeat. I hope I’m wrong…?
Isn’t the Reuters article what they wrote about Reid bringing up the bill, which in turn got Sen. Dodd busy?</