By way of background, the latest version of the FISA overhaul bill — yes the same one Nancy and Harry swore they would fix in September after getting back from being gone all August and caving in to Administration demands before leaving town at the end of July, yes it is now December — includes retroactive immunity for telecom companies who allowed the government to spy on citizens without warrants in violation of not only the law but the Bill of Rights.
Senator Dodd — a member of the majority party, and a current presidential candidate — doesn’t think that’s right. Do you? He and a mere handful of allies in the Senate are planning a filibuster. Give a call. Tell them to do the right thing. Then call your own Senators and tell them you expect them to do the right thing. And then call Harry Reid and ask him why the hell a member of the majority party has to filibuster anything, ever!
The Senate needs to be reminded who sent them to office.
In closing: if JurassicPork is right, we are worse off than we think; fiscal sanity; one thing free trade zones are really good for is drug smuggling; another way of looking at the DMV; so much for manufacturing jobs; oh, and so much for the stable part of Iraq; an increase in inequality; and finally, Cynthia at Shorty Stories alerts us not-so-tall people to a new website for petites.