{"id":197763,"date":"2008-01-13T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/13\/no-telco-immunity-for-a-while\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T02:45:00","slug":"no-telco-immunity-for-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/13\/no-telco-immunity-for-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"No Telco Immunity for a While"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of Dodd&#8217;s activism against Telco immunity, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120001233310682537.html?mod=todays_us_opinion\">Harry Reid has decided not to attempt to pass such a provision while Bush is still in office<\/a>.  Instead, he&#8217;s looking at extending the last bill for another 18 months. (Note the article linked is a WSJ editorial, and so it is in many ways factually inaccurate where there are clear facts, and wrong in its analysis, read only if you have a strong stomach or an affection for dark humor)<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is not good enough.  The &#8220;Protect America Act&#8221; is an assault on the constitution and its principles.  It should not be extended a day, much less 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Dodd is now out of the Presidential race, but in 2000, he lost to Daschle in a race for the Senate Democratic leader, and he should challenge Reid next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of Dodd&#8217;s activism against Telco immunity, Harry Reid has decided not to attempt to pass such a provision while Bush is still in office. Instead, he&#8217;s looking at extending the last bill for another 18 months. (Note the article linked is a WSJ editorial, and so it is in many ways factually &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1067,998,972,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-communications","category-congress","category-justice","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}