Dodd, FISA and the Filibuster ” How It’s Going To Go Down and What You Can Do, is how this was layed out for us. Dodd was going to take the floor and not yield it. Who Will Stand with Chris Dodd for the Constitution? Well, as luck would have it, things didn’t work out as planned….
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.
On a vote of 76-10, far more than the 60 needed, the Democratic-led Senate cleared a procedural hurdle and began considering a bill to increase congressional and judicial oversight of electronic surveillance of suspected terrorists.It includes a provision to grant retroactive immunity to any telecommunications company that took part in Bush’s spying program — surveillance without court warrants of e-mails and telephone calls of people in the United States — begun shortly after the September 11 attacks. ….
Backers of immunity, who include some Democrats as well many of Bush’s fellow Republicans, contend companies should be thanked, not punished, for helping defend the United States.
As Ed explains, “Even though Chris Dodd has used his flailing presidential run to highlight the cause, he has no hope of collecting the 60 votes necessary to amend the bill. In fact, now that the bill has passed cloture, it only requires 51 votes for passage, and it already has almost 50% more votes than that.”
As you can imagine, the left is calling for Reid’s head. They just realized that he only payed lip service at that Kos convention.. To top it all off, it looks like their shot at 60 senates seats is just a pipe dream!
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