Telecom Immunity

for anyone keeping track (4.00 / 1)

Matt Browner-Hamlin is keeping track at his blog: http://holdfastblog.com/

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by: thenerd0584 @ Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 18:17:45 PM UTC

reconcile (0.00 / 0)

they'll have to square this version (retro immunity and all) with the House rendering which does NOT give the telecoms the same immunity.)

thats what i hear on NPR a minute ago.

activist for hire.

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by: Jay Lassiter @ Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 20:10:05 PM UTC

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Clinton and Obama Should Focus on This One.... (0.00 / 0)

....and push for a conference bill that denies retroactive immunity for lawbreakers!

This is worthy of being put front and center into the national spotlight and worthy of a filibuter.   Any Dem who fails to support holding the Bush administration accountable in these regards is betraying, not just hie/her party, but more importantly the spirit of the oath of office they swore to uphold.

It's an essentially corrupt abomination that our freedom s are being trifled with in this manner and that the effort to "sweep it under the rug" is being joined by so many "Democrats".  WTF is going on here?

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by: Nick Lento @ Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 21:09:16 PM UTC

Dodd's Comment says it all (4.00 / 4)

Courtesy of TPM Muckraker...

The Senate had "just sanctioned" the "single largest invasion of privacy in the history of the country,"

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by: Jason Springer @ Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 21:32:57 PM UTC

Doddmania (0.00 / 0)

From the same link: Dodd vows that if FISA bill including retroactive telecom immunity emerges from House/Senate conference, "he'd 'absolutely' filibuster that bill; he'd use 'whatever vehicles we can' to stop it."

And thanks to Menendez and Lautenberg.

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by: Church Street @ Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 22:45:42 PM UTC

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That's quite a quote. (0.00 / 0)

And he's always been out-front on this issue.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 21:35:17 PM UTC

Specter's amendment should burn... (0.00 / 0)

"Also going down in flames was Arlen Specter's amendment that would have required the federal government to indemnify the telecoms, essentially stepping into the shoes of the telecoms to defend any suits and pay any judgments."

This amendment should have gone down in flames.  If the Specter admendment passed, we the taxpayers would be funding the government to represent the telecoms in the very law suit we're bringing against the government/telecoms. Then, to be doubly f*cked, we'd fund the payout, if any was awarded by the court(s).

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by: scarletbgonias @ Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 22:08:28 PM UTC

The spectre of Specter (0.00 / 0)

Arlen Specter has pretended to be a "moderate" for years, and too many people have been fooled.  Glad he's revealing his true colors.

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."  (Teddy Roosevelt)

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by: DottieG @ Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 00:07:35 AM UTC

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Clinton and Obama Failed to Vote on This: Why? (0.00 / 0)

As I've been saying all along, even when one of these two becomes president; they'll still have to be pushed, and pushed hard by a massive grass roots progressive movement of ordinary unconnected unmonied Americans....or nothing much will really change for the better......allowing McCain to be elected guarantees a continued slide down hill.

Here's a list of the Democrats who voted for this horrible law.   They must think no one is watching...

Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)

I bet that in an America where all campaigns were financed by the public; none of these individuals would have gone along with this sell out......with the exception of, maybe Lieberman, eh?

Let's push Lautenberg and Menendez to join with Dodd in a filibuster if that's what it takes to kill "retroactive immunity"!!!

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by: Nick Lento @ Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 01:51:33 AM UTC

Obama voted on all the amendments (4.00 / 2)

http://projects.washingtonpost...

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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by: Hopeful @ Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 02:39:21 AM UTC

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Obama Voted For Amendment (4.00 / 2)

At least according to the Senate Roll Call.  However, he did skip the vote on the bill.

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by: rmfretz @ Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 02:39:54 AM UTC

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Barack Obama (4.00 / 2)

voted in favor of the Dodd-Feingold Amendment.

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by: Thurman Hart @ Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 02:39:58 AM UTC

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