{"id":198082,"date":"2007-12-17T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/17\/mr-dodd-goes-to-washington\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:35:00","slug":"mr-dodd-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/17\/mr-dodd-goes-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Dodd Goes To Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dodd promised to filibuster teleco immunity, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.com\/2007\/12\/dodd_campaign_he_will_filibuster_fisa_bill_today_as_long_as_he_can.php\">and he has kept his word<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/17\/washington\/17cnd-nsa.html?ref=business\">Senate voted 76 to 10 to stop his filibuster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I predicted, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/harry-reid-betrays-constitution-chris.html\">Obama did not show up for the vote<\/a>, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">neither did Clinton or Biden<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Obama issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2007\/12\/17\/obamas-statement-on-dodd-and-filibuster\/\">statement to Firedog Lake<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;Senator Obama unequivocally opposes giving retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies and has cosponsored Senator Dodd&#8217;s efforts to remove that provision from the FISA bill. Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect. Senator Obama supports a filibuster of this bill, and strongly urges others to do the same. It&#8217;s not clear whether he can return for the vote, but under the Senate rules, the side trying to end a filibuster must produce 60 votes to cut off debate.  Whether he is present for the vote for not, Senator Obama will not be among those voting to end the filibuster.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand the basic mechanics of cloture, but I would like to see him a reason to bloody show up for work.<\/p>\n<p>This applies to Biden and Clinton too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dodd promised to filibuster teleco immunity, and he has kept his word. Unfortunately, the Senate voted 76 to 10 to stop his filibuster. As I predicted, Obama did not show up for the vote, and neither did Clinton or Biden. Obama issued a statement to Firedog Lake: &#8220;Senator Obama unequivocally opposes giving retroactive immunity to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,1102,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-intelligence","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198082"}],"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=198082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}