{"id":198093,"date":"2007-12-14T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/14\/harry-reid-betrays-the-constitution-chris-dodd-calls-in-markers-to-try-to-preserve-it\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T22:30:00","slug":"harry-reid-betrays-the-constitution-chris-dodd-calls-in-markers-to-try-to-preserve-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/14\/harry-reid-betrays-the-constitution-chris-dodd-calls-in-markers-to-try-to-preserve-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Reid Betrays the Constitution. Chris Dodd Calls in Markers to Try to Preserve It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harry Reid has announced that he will put forward the FISA bill from the intelligence committee<\/a>, the one with few protections and teleco immunity.<\/p>\n

I don’t know why he is choosing George W. Bush over the constitution of the United States, though I think it may have something to do with the fact that he’s gotten a lot of campaign donations from them.<\/p>\n

He is also refusing to recognize Chris Dodd’s hold on the bill, which means that Dodd will have to actually filibuster. <\/p>\n

I’m not sure why. After all he allowed Neanderthal Tom Coburn to block an investigation of the brutal racist murder of Emmett Till and other unsolved racial crimes.<\/p>\n

In any case, Chris Dodd is reminding Senators Clinton and Obama of their promise to support his filibuster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Letter from Dodd Campaign:<\/p>\n

Dear Tim, Today, that FISA fight we’ve all been waiting for begins — and it’s time to separate the leaders from the capitulators.<\/p>\n

In a few hours, Majority Leader Harry Reid will ask for something called a “motion to proceed” on FISA, effectively disregarding Chris Dodd’s “hold” on the bill.<\/p>\n

It’s unfortunate that he chose to go this route, to introduce a bill including retroactive immunity when another route could have been chosen just as easily.<\/p>\n

So … that means Chris Dodd will start by introducing an amendment to strip retroactive immunity out of the bill.<\/p>\n

But if that doesn’t work, he will do all he can to stop this bill that threatens our security, and that may include a “filibuster.”<\/p>\n

Remember when this all started playing out? A lot of people rushed to send out strongly worded press releases about how committed they were to “supporting a filibuster.”<\/p>\n

They’ll have a chance to show they are true to their word.<\/p>\n

Call or email the Senators that pledged their opposition to this bill to support the Dodd Amendment and a filibuster if necessary. And ask them to be there with Dodd when it counts.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/chrisdodd.com\/filibuster<\/p>\n

You don’t demonstrate leadership in the footnotes of a press release, or parroting responses from focus groups.<\/p>\n

Leadership is demonstrated through action.
Tim Tagaris
Chris Dodd for President<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hillary I expect to stick to her word, Obama, I expect him to miss the vote<\/span><\/b><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harry Reid has announced that he will put forward the FISA bill from the intelligence committee, the one with few protections and teleco immunity. I don’t know why he is choosing George W. Bush over the constitution of the United States, though I think it may have something to do with the fact that he’s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,1102,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-intelligence","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198093"}],"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=198093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}