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FISA Update
Joe Biden, Russ Feingold, and Barack Obama are supporting Chris Dodd’s efforts to stop the telecoms from gaining ex post facto amnesty for their illegal activities in helping the Bush administration to spy on Americans,
Read More..>>Dodd on FISA
Chris Dodd is the only candidate who has stepped forward on this issue. Clinton and Obama have done nothing. Edwards, no longer in the Senate, is powerless to do anything.
Chris Dodd
Open Secrets entry here.
A Glimmer of Hope From Senator Dodd
UPDATED BELOW: SUCCESS!
Senator Dodd: Lead The Resistance To The Dem Senate CaveIn On FISA
or more concisely, from atrios:
Any senator can put a hold on a bill, making it a big pain in the ass for the rest of the Senate to deal with it if they want to.
and also this:
Dodd’s uniquely placed to do something. [...]
Waiting On Brett
This post by Howie Klein is required reading. He blows my “Specter Knew” thesis to shreds: Booman, I owe you a beer. So who’s Tolman? He was Specter’s counsel on the Judiciary Committee, a holdover from the Hatch chairmanship that Arlen kept on. But it’s mroe than that:
Tolman was a counsel [...]
Murtha
Murtha
Read More..>>David Obey Smacks Fred Hiatt
Verbally, that is: TPM has the video, and it’s a beaut.
I only wish Obey was smacking the WaPo’s editor for real, with a fistful of D-cell batteries. That’s the least that Fred the Fraud Hiatt deserves for the weasely, slimy, bloodthirsty, warmongering bilge he burps up in every WaPo editorial. Better yet, [...]
Pat Murphy
I’ve always been a supporter of Patrick Murphy, who won over GOP Rubber Stamp Mike Fitzpatrick in Lower Bucks County in 2006. He came to Drinking Liberally a lot, and got a lot of helps from the netroots and from progressives in Southeastern PA. Murphy’s in his mid-30s, a lawyer and West Point professor, [...]
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